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Nathan Wycoff, Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded a grant from the NSF's Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins program along with co-PIs Wouter Hoogkamer (Kinesiology), Meghan Huber (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), and Dongyhun Kim (CICS). The substantive aims of the project are to improve understanding of how to measure and model human-technology systems and to optimize wearable devices to minimize metabolic effort of agile locomotion. The grant will fund research on the development of statistical tools for analysis of

Leili Shahriyari, associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the UMass Cancer Center and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences, has been awarded a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA, R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health. 

The prestigious MIRA award provides long-term, flexible support for the NIGMS-relevant research program in an investigator’s laboratory. This program is designed to boost scientific productivity, increase the chances of major

Professor R. İnanç Baykur, professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for the Class of 2026.

The AMS notes that Fellows are selected for excellence in research, exposition, and service to the profession. The society’s goal is to highlight and celebrate sustained, high-impact contributions that advance the mathematical sciences. Professor Baykur is listed among the 2026 class of honorees comprising 40 mathematical scientists worldwide. 

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The department offers the Remote Statistics M.S. Degree through the UMass Amherst Charles River satellite campus in Newton (Boston Area).

The department welcomes students to the second annual Math Majors Fair on Thursday, April 3rd, 4-6pm on the 16th floor of LGRT.   There will be food, games, a raffle, as well as people to answer questions about advising, REU opportunities, study abroad, and clubs for math majors, including the Integrated Math Majors, Recreational Mathematics Club, Association for Women in Mathematics, the GIS Actuarial Club, and SIAM.

At the 37th New England Statistics Symposium, graduate students Christopher Odoom and Denis Folitse each won student poster awards (sponsored by insurance company Munich Re). The conference was held at the University of Connecticut on 20-24 May 2024.

The Awards Dinner recognized the many activities and achievements of students within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics during the 2023–2024 academic year.