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Iowa Math Monthly

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Bruce Ayati Publishes Open-Access Numerical Methods Textbook

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Ian Ramsey Receives Prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Research Award

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Ziqing Lu honored with Best Thesis Award for research on building more reliable reinforcement learning models

Monday, September 28, 2026

Mathematics Professor Ionut Chifan Receives Prestigious 2026 Frontiers of Science Award

Tuesday, September 15, 2026
The Department of Mathematics celebrates Professor Ionut Chifan’s 2026 Frontiers of Science Award for award-winning research in functional analysis and operator theory.
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Operator Theory Seminar - Associate Professor Sergii Bezuglyi; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar

Representation Theory Seminar - Luis Gomez, Kevin Wang, and Yangbo Ye; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm
MacLean Hall

Topics: Number theory

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Mathematical Physics Seminar - Salvatore Quaid; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Mathematical Physics Seminar
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Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - David Stewart

Thursday, November 12, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall

Title: Dynamics with Inequalities

Abstract: Many dynamic systems have hard limits; when those limits are reached, the dynamics must change, resulting in differential equations that are discontinuous in the state variable rather than time. Such systems are used to model mechanical impact and friction, electrical circuits with diodes, traffic flow, and other economic and physical systems. Furthermore, the understanding of what a solution is has to change, and questions of existence and uniqueness...

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