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Join the women faculty in mathematics and statistics for a social event for female students, faculty, and staff. There will be tea, snacks, and crafts!

Consider participating in the PuzzleHunt 2015 event! In teams of 2-4 you solve a series of increasingly difficult puzzles that ultimately lead to a cool prize! Take a look at the linked event page for more info!

The School of Education's Target New Transitions program is hiring for the 2015-2016 Academic Year. Target New Transitions is a drop-out prevention/high school retention program that provides academic coaching to CPS freshman. Academic coaches make a year-long commitment of regular academic support and relationship building with CPS freshmen who voluntarily come for support on Saturday mornings. Take a look at RamblerLink for more information!

Departmental Graduation Reception

As we come to the close of the academic year it is time to recognize our graduates, and all of our students' outstanding achievements! Take a look at the Pictures and Departmental Awards from the Reception!

Whether you want to work in business, industry, government, or academia, there is a career out there for you that uses math! A mathematics degree provides a solid analytical background and technical foundation that is useful in numerous careers. Explore the many career options available to you.

Fall Preview Follow-up

Check out the questions fellow Math/Stats majors asked during the Fall Preview Pizza Party!

黑料门to Host AMS Meeting

黑料门University Chicago will be hosting the AMS Central Fall Sectional Meeting from October 3-4, 2015.

Participate in the 黑料门mini-Datafest Competition on Friday, April 10th. This Spring's competition is a prediction/machine learning challenge in the style of a kaggle.com competition. Check out the event here!

Graduate Student Sean Mc Carthy awarded with the REM Fellowship

Congratulations to Sean Mc Carthy for receiving the award of a Research Experience for Master's Programs Fellowship for Spring 2015.

From the Blog

We have long been wondering about the day computers can match the power of the human mind. Are we there yet? No. Not even close. But we have gotten one step closer with this recent development by Dr. Bowling鈥檚 research team at University of Alberta and their computer Cepheus.

Mathematician Lee Lorch Dies at 98

Human rights activist and mathematician Lee Lorch died on February 28th at the age of 98. He is known for his work towards desegregation, mentoring African American mathematicians, and supporting the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Registration for the fall semester begins April 13 and we want to make sure our students are well informed of their options. Students in our programs are invited to stop by to learn about our fall offerings and for FREE pizza!

Come to the Undergraduate Colloquium (Thursday, March 26th, 4:30PM: Cuneo 312), where Karen Saxe, from Macalester College, will discuss the use of mathematics to prevent and detect gerrymandering in U.S. elections. Attendees are invited to meet the speaker 30 minutes beforehand over Tea and Cookies.

Statistics Career Night

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics recently hosted a career night and pizza party for undergraduate and graduate students interested in statistics careers.

From the Blog

With the recent release of the film, The Imitation Game, a wide audience has learned of the immense mathematical accomplishments of Alan Turing. The Academy Award nominated film focuses on breaking the system the Germans used for encrypting vital messages during WWII called the Enigma.

Statistics can say whatever you want it to, drolls the dull old axiom... more correctly, you might say, Statistics can say whatever you want it to when it's used irresponsibly or haphazardly. Read Professor Gregory Matthews' take on what to ignore on Super Bowl weekend.

Michael Godinez: Internship Profile

Read about one of our undergraduates who was featured in the recent 黑料门Magazine!

From the Blog

One of the many places that mathematics shows up in our everyday lives is in cooking. Basic mathematics appears in the measurement of ingredients and conversions of cups to pounds or ounces to tablespoons. A stripped-down recipe is nothing more than a ratio.

Congratulations Hunyong Cho on Winning the Mini-Hackathon!

On Friday October 17th, 黑料门held its first Mini-Hackathon. Statistics graduate student, Hunyong Cho, was the winner!

Check out the 2014 winner of The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics on the Colbert Report!

From the Blog

Have you ever wondered about the ideal age to get married? Perhaps you are curious about how many people you have to date before you find 鈥渢he one.鈥� Interestingly enough, mathematicians think about this problem and have developed a formula that will give a person a chance at happiness, or maybe just a chance at picking the best option.

Check out our own Emily Peters on page 11 of the Fall 2014 黑料门Magazine.

Women in Mathematics and Statistics Visit the Theater

The Women in Mathematics and Statistics went to Loyola's production of "Proof" to enjoy a Tony Award winning play featuring the subject of mathematics.