On May 17-22, our department will be hosting a Chemical Reaction Networks conference. The local organizers are Elizabeth Gross and
Chuang Xu. The conference involves Tutorials on Sunday May 17, followed by 5 days of keynote addresses and shorter talks. Everyone is invited to attend!
You can find more information here
Math department chair and faculty member, Malik Younsi, was recently awarded the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) for his collaborative paper “Rigidity theorems for circle domains” joint with Dimitrios Ntalampekos.
The criteria for the award is: “For the 2026 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research are chosen in 40 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information sciences) represented at the ICBS. A scientific achievement must meet the following three requirements to be considered: (1) it must have been published in the last 10 years; (2) it must be of highest scientific value and originality and have made an important impact on its area; (3) it must have been evaluated and accepted by scholars in its area. The goal of this award is to encourage young scholars to look to the frontiers of basic science, set goals to obtain breakthrough results as early as possible, and contribute wisdom and energy to humankind’s study of the mysteries of the natural world.“
You can find a UH news summary here.
We are excited to welcome Bogdan Norkin who is visiting our department as a Fulbright Fellow during 2026.
A permanent member of scientific staff at the Institute for Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine, he is in Hawaii to conduct research on insurance mathematics and risk processes with Hua Chen (Shidler College of Business) and Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen (Math).
The team is pictured during an informal discussion of car insurance.
UH News has written an article by Daniel Erman’s collaborative NSF Focused Research Group grant on “Multigraded Commutative
Algebra, Toric Varieties, and Homological Mirror Symmetry.” The grant is for $1.5M across six different institutions: UH Mānoa, Auburn University, University of Minnesota, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California, and University of Oregon.
While the grant is primarily focused on collaborative research among the group of 7 PI’s, it will also support opportunities for early-career researchers and students, including workshops, graduate student support, and a postdoctoral fellow at UH Mānoa from 2025-2028.
You can read more about this project through the UH News Article.
