Great News! The Mathematics Department is the recipient of the 2022 Regents' Teaching Excellence Award from the University System of Georgia.
The Department of Mathematics offers four degrees:
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Master of Applied Mathematical Sciences (M.A.M.S.)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- The Double Dawgs 5-year program combines the B.S. and M.A. in Mathematics
Looking for a bright and engaged community? This is the place for you. In 2017, 37% of graduating mathematics majors reported attending graduate school after graduation.
Majors and double majors in the news: Victoria Akin, Mallory Harris, Yoong “Terry” Phang, Sarah Tammen.
The Department hosts the Research and Training Group AGANT, generously supported by a $2,000,000.- grant from the National Science Foundation. Browse through some of the published articles of our graduate students.
We celebrated in 2018 the 70th anniversary of the creation of our PhD program. The first PhD in mathematics at UGA was awarded to William Peeples in 1951. Shirley McBay (1935-2021) was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in our department in 1966. She was also the first African-American to receive a PhD in any field at UGA. Zerotti Woods (UGA PhD 2019) interviewed Dr. McBay in 2018. The Science Library was named the Shirley Mathis McBay Science Library in December 2021.
The year 2018 is also the 100th anniversary of UGA opening its doors to women. In 2021 UGA celebrates the 60th anniversary of desegregation. Among the first three African American first year students to enroll at the University of Georgia and graduate four years later was Kerry Rushin Miller (BS ’66), a mathematics major. Miller went on to a career in telecommunications. She was the second African American woman hired into Atlanta’s Western Electric regional engineering headquarters and retired after 29 years from Southern Bell management in Charlotte, N.C. A scholarship has been established by the Department of Mathematics in honor of Mrs. Kerry Rushin Miller.
2021 was a banner year, with eight successful promotions in the department! Congratulations to Toyin Alli, Kelly Black, Weiwei Hu, Georgios Petridis, Laura Rider, Jennifer Royal, Trenton Schirmer, and Weiwei Wu.
2022 is also a great year, with five successful promotions in the department! Congratulations to Jacob Hicks, Hee Jung Kim, Gary Iliev, Maury LeBlanc and Roy Segars.
Congratulations to our most recent PhDs!
Komal Agrawal, defended on March 2nd, 2022.
David Galban, defended on March 14, 2022.
Andy Jenkins, defended on March 16, 2022.
Arvind Suresh, defended on March 29, 2022.
Nolan Schock, defended on April 12, 2022.
Sarah Blackwell, defended on June 23, 2022.
Climate & Inclusivity
We, the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Georgia, strive to provide an inclusive and supportive departmental culture that welcomes and respects all members of the mathematical community. Providing a safe environment and a nurturing atmosphere for our students is a foundational part of our departmental mission in teaching and research.
The Mathematics Department affirms that all community members are to be treated with dignity and respect and that discrimination and harassment will not be tolerated. We further commit ourselves to making the department a supportive, inclusive, and safe environment for all students, faculty, staff, and visitors. In accordance with the University’s Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy, the Mathematics Department does not tolerate, and will report for further investigation, any instance of discriminatory conduct on the basis of race, color, sex (including sexual harassment and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity or national origin, religion, genetic information, disability, age, or veteran status.
We welcome your comments, observations, and suggestions so that we may continue to improve climate and inclusivity within the Mathematics Department. Please send them to our Climate and Inclusivity Committee (climate@math.uga.edu) or Department Head (lyall@uga.edu).*Please note that information received through one of these email addresses is not confidential and could initiate a requirement to report to EOO under the NDAH Policy.
