University at Albany, SUNY - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

09/01/2026

32 new tenure track faculty join UAlbany this semester, including Kent Vashaw—assistant professor and Simons Empire Faculty Fellow—hosted here in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics!

The University at Albany welcomed 32 new tenure-track faculty members this fall. The professors will present one-minute, one-slide presentations at the University’s annual Pecha Kucha to be held on Oct. 5. The University also welcomed 48 non-tenure-track faculty.

08/12/2026

MoMath is thrilled to announce Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher, opening October 1!

Be among the first to experience the first major exhibition devoted to revealing the mathematics behind M.C. Escher’s extraordinary work. Featuring more than 60 prints, drawings, original woodblocks, and other objects, the exhibition explores the symmetry, geometry, infinity, perspective, and spatial logic behind Escher’s endlessly fascinating impossible worlds.

Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher
October 1, 2026–February 8, 2027
National Museum of Mathematics

Join MoMath for a free opening celebration on Thursday, October 1, from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Registration is encouraged; walk-ins will be admitted as space permits.

Register for the opening celebration:
https://momath.org/escher/

Discover the mathematics behind the impossible.
MoMath is thrilled to announce Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher, opening October 1!

Be among the first to experience the first major exhibition devoted to revealing the mathematics behind M.C. Escher’s extraordinary work. Featuring more than 60 prints, drawings, original woodblocks, and other objects, the exhibition explores the symmetry, geometry, infinity, perspective, and spatial logic behind Escher’s endlessly fascinating impossible worlds.

Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher
October 1, 2026–February 8, 2027
National Museum of Mathematics

Join MoMath for a free opening celebration on Thursday, October 1, from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Registration is encouraged; walk-ins will be admitted as space permits.

Register for the opening celebration:
https://momath.org/escher/

08/06/2026

Even mathematicians will agree that "writing is thinking." Being able to write exposition and proofs well starts with being able to write well, period!

A love of writing drew over a dozen teens from around the Capital Region to UAlbany this summer for Discovering Your Voice, a creative writing workshop held July 13-17 and hosted by the Capital District Writing Project, part of UAlbany’s School of Education, and the New York State Writers Institut...

08/02/2026

The funding will support photonics chips, which run on light instead of electrons and are more energy-efficient. Link in comments.

08/02/2026

"We provide new results for the following problems. The results were achieved by an internal version of Astra, our next major model. The total number of tokens needed to find solutions to these problems would cost roughly $2,000 at Sol API rates. These arguments were then prepared into manuscripts by humans with the same model. Afterward, the model formalized each argument in a Lean certificate⁠. We are also releasing for each solution a model’s narration of its thinking process."

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

07/30/2026

The City of Albany ranked No. 12 on LinkedIn's 2026 "Cities on the Rise" list this year, which recognized the University at Albany as one of the region's top employers, reflecting the University's central role in workforce development, alongside advancing research and helping fuel the Capital Region...