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 (of whom 44 are actively working in the department and 2 serve in upper administrative positions: TTU President Lawrence Schovanec, and W. Brent Lindquist, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences). In addition, the department includes 8 postdoctoral associates (including an NSF-funded postdoc), and 9 instructors. The graduate enrollment has been at an average of 150 graduate students per year, since 2015. Of them, 100 are currently supported full time as graduate parttime instructors, teaching assistants or research assistants.
To minimize your risk during the COVID-19 outbreak, we ask that you contact the Department primarily through email at math.dept@ttu.edu, or the Undergraduate Advisor or Graduate Advisor as appropriate. Calls to the Department can be made to (806) 742-2566.
News
- Professor Raegan Higgins has been named an Ingrated Scholar for 2020 by the Office of the Provost. Hooray, Dr. Higgins!
- Congratulations to Edri Kara for receiving a very competitive travel grant from the American Physical Society (APS) Biophysics Division!
- Multiple job opportunities are now available!
- Congratulations to Claudia Muñoz for receiving the 2019 Trjitzinsky Award.
- Congratulations to TTU Math Post-Doc Joshua Padgett.
- The Simons Foundation has awarded TTU Math Professor and Chair Dr. Magdalena Toda a $42,000 grant.
- Math Professors Brock Williams and Raegan Higgins, along with PI and Education Professor Jerry Dwyer and TTU's Michael Galyean and Jill White, have been awarded an NSF STEM grant worth over $1.1 million.
- 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 and offer tutoring to undergraduate and graduate students right here in the
math building at the Tutoring and Study Center located in room 106. We welcome you to our department and look forward to the bright
future ahead of you!
Seminars & Colloquia
All upcoming seminars and colloquium are cancelled.
Full Schedule of Events Available here
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