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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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CLAS's most popular articles from the summer of 2026 share a theme: people and ideas thrive with the right support. From mathematics outreach to professional hearing care and humanities research funding, these stories show how expertise, mentorship, and community create new possibilities across CLAS and beyond.

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From Iowa to the international stage: Outreach program helps young mathematicians reach new heights

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After years of mentoring talented students through the Iowa Junior Math Academy and related outreach efforts, University of Iowa faculty are seeing participants earn national honors, compete internationally, and pursue mathematics at the highest levels.

Events

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Math Bio Seminar - Garrett Young; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Monday, October 12, 2026 3:30pm
Schaeffer Hall

Title: Sensitivity Analysis on the Terazosin Model

Abstract: This talk will go over some preliminary investigations into the sensitivity of a competitive inhibitor stimulation model to uncertainty in its initial conditions. Global sensitivity analysis is performed using Sobol indices, with the Jansen estimators used to approximate first-order and total-order sensitivity indices. The analysis examines how uncertainty in the initial concentrations of the model's chemical species contributes to...

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

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
MacLean Hall

Topics: Number theory by machine learning

Algebra Seminar - Shashank Singh; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 3:30pm
MacLean Hall

Title: Reconstruction of a Presented Tensor Action from an Extension with a Crossing

Abstract: This talk shows how a presented tensor action on an abelian category 𝒜 is reconstructed from an extension with a crossing. The extension is a short exact sequence of endofunctors 0 → T → E → Id → 0 on 𝒜, with maps ι: T → E and π: E → Id and with T an autoequivalence. The crossing is a natural isomorphism κ: ET → TE satisfying (Tπ)κ = πT, which records how E commutes with T. On the copy of T² inside ET...

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Joint Condensed Matter & Mathematical Physics Seminar - Vinicius Ferreira; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Joint Condensed Matter & Mathematical Physics Seminar
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