The department’s mission is to provide core education in mathematics and statistics that prepares graduate and undergraduate students to be knowledgeable and responsible citizens of the world. This includes preparatory and general education courses that ensure every student has the quantitative and reasoning skills needed every career now demands. This includes the sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, agriculture, business, and education. We provide courses for other disciplines throughout the NMSU main campus. Strengths lie in commutative algebra, logic and foundations, probability and statistics, dynamical systems, mathematical biology, variational methods in partial differential equations especially relevant to materials science, and applied and computational harmonic analysis with applications to machine learning and data analysis. Our faculty has research groups in many areas of pure and applied mathematics, and in mathematics education. At the Bachelor’s level we have several options for career preparation, such as applied mathematics and actuarial science. The department offers courses in mathematics and statistics leading to the Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degree. The Psych and CS departments have been very helpful in helping us cope with the Walden Hall closure. We have funding from Bank of America to hire some tutors, and we are working with Renay Scott, Vice President of Student Success, to try to get more suitable space in the computer lab in SH 118. This currently takes place in the windowless little room that used to store Joe Zund’s books and in one of our small conference rooms. While our tutoring center in Walden Hall remains shuttered (with no end in sight), in-person tutoring (in addition to online) is back and beginning to grow. It would be great if we could do more of this. One area where there is no lack of enthusiasm is our labs that are staffed with peer learning assistants. On a lesser note, after a strong start to the semester in our in-person undergraduate classes, there seems to be a decrease in attendance across many departments. The graduate student interest in these events is probably stronger than at any time since I’ve been at NMSU. The equipment in SH 107 and now in SH 236 has worked well for this. Many of our seminars and colloquia are hybrid, with an in-person audience and broadcast over zoom. If you know of strong candidates for any of these positions, please point them to this link: The department and university in general are not completely out of the pandemic, but there is definitely much more activity at the university. The tenure-track positions are in algebra/algebraic geometry, functional analysis, and a position given by the chancellor to support education. There are two more college-track positions, three tenure-track positions, and two 2-year postdoctoral positions (open areas) currently being advertised on Mathjobs. We have one college-track position that has just closed and we are now screening the applicants. Our staffing issues will hopefully take a better turn in the near future. This makes it pretty difficult to get the basic business of running a department done. Among our 15 tenure-track faculty and 5 college-track faculty we have 5 on leave for part or all of the year. Candelario Castaneda works with Ross, and Joel Lucero-Bryan works with Guram and Ilya. We also have research collaborators of some dept members here as visitors this year. Prasit Bhattacharya, our new tenure-track topologist, and Sarah Archuletta, our new college-track faculty, are both settling in very well. Welcome to the Department of Mathematical Sciences News
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