Welcome to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is one of the largest departments on campus, with 46 tenured and tenure track faculty (45 actively working in the department with one serving in upper administration: TTU President Lawrence Schovanec). In addition, the Department includes 8 postdoctoral associates (including an NSF-funded postdoc), and 9 instructors. The graduate enrollment has averaged 150 grad students per year since 2015. Of them, 100 are currently supported full time as graduate part-time instructors, teaching assistants or research assistants.
News
- Professor Yifan Wang has been awarded an NSF grant worth $82,347.00, Mechanistic modeling of cell encapsulation. He is the Principal Investigator of this Mathematical Biology grant, which will run through April, 2026.
- Professor Juntao Huang has been recommended by the NSF Computational Mathematics Team a grant award worth $249,394. His proposal, DMS-2309655, Structure-preserving machine learning moment closures for kinetic equations, should be approved before the end of August, 2023. This is an exciting development the Department is coordinating with Dr. Huang to bring to fruition.
- Dr. Eugenio Aulisa was selected as the 2023 Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher in a ceremony by the Office and Research and Innovation April 20th. He earns this distinction for his numerous grants and publications in Applied Mathematics.
- Research.com's 2nd Edition lists Dr. Zari Rachev as the 386th best research Mathematician in the world, 212th in the nation. This is a remarkable recognition, and we are honored he calls Texas Tech his academic home.
- Dr. Raegan Higgins has been inducted into the 2023 AWM Fellows Program, quite the distinction!
- In October, Dr. Brock Williams received an NSF Grant worth $208,818 over three years for the project Culturally Relevant Mentorship for Enhancing STEM Identity and Career Interests
- Dr. Lars Christensen received a 2022 Simons Award worth $42,000 over the next 5 years for the project Homological and homotopical algebra of commutative rings.
- The Department's own Dr. Raegan Higgins, while serving as Co-Director EDGE 2022 summer program in Oxford, England, was named an Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Success.
- In June Dr. Lars Christensen was notified his Presidential Excellence in Research position would be renewed through 2025.
- And in June Dr. Brock Williams was re-appointed to his Presidential Excellence in Teaching Professorship, renewed through 2025, also.
- Through the efforts of Dr.'s Lindquist and Rachev, the Department is now offering a new Ph.D. track, Mathematical Finance.
- More News
Our Vision
The Texas Tech Mathematics & Statistics Department is committed to achieving significant
research while providing high-quality education for our students at the undergraduate
and graduate levels. We have several active areas of research. Click here for descriptions of current research topics done by our faculty, post-docs, and graduate
students in the Mathematics & Statistics Department. We are passionate about our student's
success. We welcome you to our department and look forward to the bright future ahead of you!
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
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Address
Texas Tech University, 1108 Memorial Circle, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042 -
Phone
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Email
math.dept@ttu.edu