WELCOME
Welcome to the Department of Mathematics at Tufts University, a premier research university in the Boston area. We offer BA, BS , master's , and doctoral (Ph.D.) degree programs in Mathematics.
Our department has vibrant undergraduate and graduate programs, including a wide range of courses in both pure and applied mathematics. We have an active Putnam Exam team, and a student chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . We have a weekly department colloquium, as well as several ongoing seminar series. Once a year, we host the Norbert Wiener Lectures , named after perhaps the most illustrious mathematician to graduate from Tufts.
Our department provides an exciting learning environment in which our undergraduate majors, graduate students and faculty interact on a regular basis.
Please follow these links for admissions information for our undergraduate and graduate programs.
DEPARTMENT NEWS AND AWARDS
Mathematics major Sarah Cannon A'12 is once again in the news, having been selected as the winner of the
Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Female) for
2012. This is an extremely competitive national competition. Congratulations Sarah! Tufts students Constantin Berzan E'12 and Connor Gramazio A'12 were awarded honorable mentions. The complete list of winners is here. Go Jumbos!
Congratulations to Thomas Höft, Norbert Wiener Assistant Professor in Mathematics, for having been selected as a NeXT Fellow by the Mathematical Association of America.
The Mathematics Department is very pleased to announce a new Applied Mathematics Major.
Beginning in the fall of 2012 many of our courses with numbers less than 100 will be renumbered. The result is a more natural listing in which like courses have similar numbers.
If you will have a math or science degree by June, 2012, and would like to teach math or science in high-needs secondary schools, you might be interested in our new Noyce/NSF Teaching Fellowship Program. Noyce Teaching Fellows receive a full scholarship to the Tufts Master of Arts in Teaching program, a stipend and special mentoring while they teach in urban schools. Information about the Program can be found here . This program is supported by a $2.1 million National Science Foundation grant to Tufts University. It is also featured in the Tufts Journal .
Congratulations to Professor Richard Weiss who was recently awarded a Mercator-Gastprofessur by the DFG (the German NSF) for six months (one semester) at the University of Giessen. His sponsor in Giessen is Professor Bernhard Mühlherr who spent some time as a visitor in the Department.
Student Award Winners
Victor Minden , E12, a double major in mathematics and electrical engineering, is one of this year's recipients of the Marshall Hochhauser Prize for the Enrichment of Intellectual Life.
Congratulations to Professor Todd Quinto, the winner of the 2010-2011 Mathematics Society Professor of the Year Award. Professor Quinto is pictured above with Rani Satyam '11, president of the Mathematics Society.
Wenyu Xiong, A13, a double major in mathematics and quantitative economics, attended the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s conference on “Crisis and Renewal: International Political Economy at the Crossroads.” More than 300 economists, current and former government officials, journalists and students from around the world attended the conference in Bretton Woods, N.H., in early April.
Tufts students score again in the 2011 Contest in Mathematical Modeling.
John Abel, Jay Stotsky and Kim Stachenfeld won a meritorious award for the 2nd problem.
Stephen Bidwell, Liam Clegg and Victor Minden won Honorable Mention for the 1st problem.
The teams of Zach Himes, Brandon Dillow and Daniel Fortunato and Min Zhong, Yunling Huang, and Liwei Liao were awarded successful participant. Information about the contest itself can be found here . Congratulations to all!
Scholar Athlete Sarah Cannon A'12 wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship . Congratulations Sarah!
We are pleased to celebrate the following awards given by the the Tufts University Graduate Student Council.
Professor Boris Hasselblatt: Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Graduate Studies
Tufts Organization for Graduate Students in Mathematics: Outstanding Graduate Student Organization
Professor Misha Kilmer tapped as special adviser to President Monaco and Interim Provost Newell.
Tufts has received $2.1 million from the Noyce/NSF Scholarship Program to support students to teach middle and high school math and science. We are now recruiting math and science majors to receive a full scholarship to the Tufts Master of Arts in Teaching program and a stipend and special mentoring while they teach in urban schools. Information about the Program can be found here. The Program is also featured in the Tufts Journal .
Tufts Receives $9.5 Million to Launch the Poincaré Institute for Mathematics Education
Art by Lun-Yi Tsai - Tufts alumnus featured in the fall 2009 issue of Tufts Magazine . His work entitled American Degeneration appears as the background image on the cover of the October 2010 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . An article about the work can be found here .
