December
Wencai was awarded the 2026–2027 AMS Centennial Research Fellowship. Congratulations! AMS News;TAMU News
October
Our REU groups finished a research paper: Quantum dynamical bounds for quasi-periodic operators with Liouville frequencies. arXiv version
September
Our special session "Dynamics and spectrum of quasiperiodic Schrodinger operators" (co-organized with Zhenghe Zhang and Qi Zhou was accepted by the 15th AIMS Conference, Athens, Greece, July 6-10, 2025.
Wencai has been invited to be a long-term visitor at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (UC Berkeley) in Fall 2026.
Wencai has been promoted to Full Professor and appointed as the Arthur Owen Endowed Professor. Website
August
Wencai and his family have moved to Berkeley, where he holds the position of Visiting Miller Professor. Website
Our REU students Matthew Bradshaw, Titus de Jong, and Audrey Wang received the Outstanding Poster Award at MathFest 2025 for their project “Discrepancy Estimates for Liouville Irrationals and Applications to Quantum Dynamics of Quasi-Periodic Schrodinger Operators.” Website
July
Our Prema groups finished a research paper: Semi-algebraic discrepancy estimates for multi-frequency shift sequences with applications to quantum dynamics. arXiv version
June
Our REU project, titled “Extrema of Spectral Band Functions of Two-Dimensional Discrete Periodic Schrodinger Operators,” has been published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.
We hosted the 2025 Texas Summer School in Mathematical Physics at Texas A&M. Website
May
We are excited to kick off our Summer REU program at Texas A&M University with undergraduates Matthew Bradshaw (UConn), Audrey Wang (Rice), and Titus de Jong (UCI). Our teaching assistant is Bingheng Yang (TAMU). Website
We hosted High School Mathematic Research Conference at Texas A&M. Website
Congratulations to Jenna Plute for receiving an Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
April
Congratulations to Max Tang on being accepted to the 2025 Ross Mathematics Program.
Wencai has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Research Impact Award.
Jenna Plute completed her honors thesis.
Congratulations to Wencai's undergraduate mentees on their success in graduate school admissions!
Ethan Luo received offers from UCLA and UIUC, among others;
Jenna Plute received offers from UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine and University of Minnesota, among others;
Jonah Robinson received offers from University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, and University of Wisconsin–Madison, among others.
March
Ethan Luo, Jenna Plute and Max Tang gave slide and poster presentations in the 8th annual TX-LA undergraduate mathematics conference hosted by UH. Website
For the second year in a row, our PReMa program has been awarded the Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant by the Mathematical Association of America.
February
Applications are now open for the 2025 summer REU program at TAMU. Website
Registrations are now open for the 2025 TX-LA undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference at UH, March 22-23, 2025. Website
January
Wencai has been awarded a Visiting Miller Professorship by the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Miller Institute News; TAMU Announcement
Our REU groups finished a research paper: Extrema of spectral band functions of two dimensional discrete periodic Schrodinger operators. arXiv version
Congratulations to Tarun Rapaka (Wencai’s mentee through the PReMa program), on being accepted into PRIMES-USA.
December
Our project "Ambarzumian-type mixed inverse spectral problems for Jacobi matrices" under "Prema" was published in The Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp 27-32, 2024.
September
We hosted the workshop "Early Career Workshop in Mathematical Physics" at TAMU, September 12-13, 2024.
August
Our Mini-Symposium "Spectral methods in disordered systems" (co-organized with Matt Powell and Xueyin Wang) was accepted by 2024 SIAM TX-LA Meeting.
July
Congratulations to Wencai on being awarded the IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize at the ICMP 2024. IUPAP News; TAMU Announcement
June
Our REU paper ``Floquet isospectrality of the zero potential for discrete periodic Schrodinger operators" got accepted by J. Math. Phys. .
May
Congratulations to Matt on passing the PhD defense. Well done, Dr. Faust!
Our PReMa program has received the Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant from the Mathematical Association of America.
April
Congratulations to Cindy Zhuang on being accepted into the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin!
Congratulations to Yichen Tao on being accepted into the PhD program in Computer Science at Texas A&M University!
March
Congratulations to Wencai for being named one of the 2024 Simons Fellows in Mathematics. Simons Announcement; TAMU Announcement
TAMU hosted the 7th TX-LA Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 23-24, 2024. Website
February
Matt Faust accepted a postdoc offer from MSU. Matt will be working with Ilya Kachkovskiy.
Xueyin Wang, who is a PhD candidate at the Chern Institute of Mathematics under the guidance of Jiangong You, accepted a postdoc offer from TAMU.
January
Our REU groups finished a research paper: Floquet isospectrality of the zero potential for discrete periodic Schrodinger operators. arXiv version
Our special sessions "Periodicity in Quantum Systems" and "Quasi-periodic and Disordered Systems" (co-organized with Matt Faust, Omar Hurtado, Long Li, Tal Malinovitch, Alberto Takase) were accepted by the 2024 AMS Fall Central Sectional meeting.
November
Nick and Wencai organized the mini-Symposium "(Complex)analysis in differential equations" at 2023 SIAM TX-LA Meeting.
October:
We hosted Spectral Theory and Applications (we will also use the conference to celebrate Peter Kuchment and his contributions to the field), Texas A&M University, October 13–15, 2023.
August:
Our Mini-Symposium "(Complex)analysis in differential equations" (co-organized with Nick Treuer) was accepted by 2023 SIAM TX-LA Meeting.
July:
With Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Wencai received a Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS).
June:
Our special session "Spectral Methods in Quantum Systems" (co-organized with Matthew Powell) was accepted by 2024 JMM.
April:
Yichen Tao accepted an offer from the 2023 Polymath JR program.
William Frendreiss wins a 2023 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award from the College of Arts & Sciences.
March:
Wencai Liu received a NSF grant DMS-2246031 titled "(Semi)algebraic Geometry in Schrodinger Operators and Nonlinear Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations".
Matt Faust will participate in the program Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World, the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), Fall 2023.
William Frendreiss has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, media.
William Frendreiss accepted a PhD offer in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) at Georgia Tech.
Jenna Plute, Yichen Tao, Ethan Tran and Cindy Zhuang gave slide and poster presentations in the 6th annual TX-LA undergraduate mathematics conference hosted by LSU.
Cindy Zhuang accepted an offer from the summer REU program ICER ACRES at MSU. Cindy also received an offer from North Carolina A&T State University and Elon University Joint REU in Mathematical Biology.
Jenna Plute accepted an offer from a REU program (Project: Some Invariants in Algebraic Graph Theory) at James Madison University. Jenna also received offers from REU programs at University of Maryland and Occidental College.
Feb:
Our BIRS Workshop "Randomness and Quasiperiodicity in Mathematical Physics" (co-organized with David Damanik, Constanza Rojas-Molina and Mira Shamis) was accepted. The workshop is scheduled for the week January 14–19, 2024.
Rodrigo accepted an Assistant Professor offer at PUC-Rio.
Matt Powell accepted the Hale Visiting Assistant Professor offer at Georgia Tech.
Dec 15: Andrew Yu, a former high school participant of the research program "STODO" (co-authored one journal publication), got an undergraduate offer from Harvard University. Congratulations to Andrew.
Dec 9: The undergraduate research program "STODO" got a funding from College of Arts and Sciences, TAMU.
Dec 9: Matt Powell successfully defended his PhD thesis.
August: Sithija Manage started his graduate school at Cornell University. Good luck.
April: William Frendreiss was selected as Texas A&M nominees for the 2022 Astronaut Scholarship. Media
Feb: William Frendreiss was selected as Texas A&M nominees for the 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Media