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Department of Mathematics and Statistics Mission

The mission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at USU is to increase fundamental knowledge in mathematics and statistics; explore the frontiers of the mathematical sciences with other disciplines; to train new generations of mathematically literate and quantitatively skilled graduates; to provide intellectual leadership in mathematics and statistics that is of direct benefit to the state of Utah and its citizens; and to earn national and international respect for the quality of its scholarship and educational programs.

Dr. Lars Peter Hansen (Class of '74) awarded CME Group-MSRI Prize in October

On September 30, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), in conjunction with the esteemed CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), announced that the third annual CME Group/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications would be awarded to Dr. Lars Peter Hansen, Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago, on Friday, October 24 at the CME Group World Headquarters, in Chicago. Dr. Hansen graduated in Mathematics from USU in 1974 and completed a doctorate in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1978.

Assistant Professors

Nathan Geer joined the USU Mathematics Department as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2008. Previously, he was a postdoc at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Nathan is spending the 2008/2009 school year doing research at the Max-Plank Institute in Germany. His research interests are in low dimensional topology and Lie theory. Nathan is a native of western Colorado and is happy to be returning to that beautiful region of the country.

Nghiem Nguyen Nghiem V. Nguyen is a new Assistant Professor in the department of Mathematics & Statistics. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. Prior to that he received both his BS and MS from New York University. For the past four years he was an NSF Post-doc at Purdue University. His research interests are Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Evolution Problems, Nonlinear Waves. In particular, he is interested in studying mathematical modeling of water waves, stability as well as other aspects of their solutions.

Changes...

New Department Head

D. Richard Cutler Richard Cutler succeeded Russell Thompson as head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in June 2008. Richard has been a member of the Department for 20 years and has previously served as Assistant Head, Graduate Director, and Director of the Statistical Consulting Center. Richard’s research interests are in interdisciplinary statistics, particularly ecological and environmental statistics. Richard is married to Professor Adele Cutler, who is also a member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

New Staff Assistant

Erika Perkins joined the Mathematics and Statistics department in June 2008 as a Staff Assistant. Erika graduated from Utah State University in 2003 with a degree in Finance. Erika is married to Derrick who is a student at Utah State University and they have two children.