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Faculty and Students of Statistics!

The 2026 Annual American Statistical Association Florida Chapter Meeting is at FIU in March!

The FIU Department of Biostatistics and Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host the 2026 Annual ASA Florida Chapter Meeting on March 6-7, 2026.

The days' events will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and feature keynote speakers, presentations and student competitions.

Click here for more information!

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          Join Math Day!
Sat., Feb. 14th, 7:30 am-4 pm

Individual and Team Competitions and prizes will be awarded!

Keynote Speaker Dr. Erik Lundberg will offer an interesting and fun talk
entitled, "Can We Hear the Fourier Series of a Vibrating String?"

Register Today!

  • Teachers registering a team: Click Here
  • Students registering individually (not part of a team): Click here
  • Teachers registering individually:  Click here

For Teachers!
While students are participating at Math Day, Join us for Florida GeoGebra!

Learn More and Register for Florida GeoGebra Here!

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Research Areas

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has an internationally recognized research faculty active in the following areas:

Algebra

Rings, modules, groups and their representations; applications to combinatorial designs and cryptology, computational algebra

Analysis

Harmonic analysis, function and operator theory and their interactions; Sobolev inequalities; inequalities involving the Fourier transform; operators on Banach spaces; ordinary and partial differential equations; stochastic differential systems; vortex and climate dynamics with applications to climatic and financial markets

Combinatorics and Geometry

Enumerative and algebraic combinatorics; graph theory; design theory and applications; finite projective planes and their automorphisms; finite geometries, and Euclidean geometry

Cryptology and Information Security (also visit our CCIS website)

Post quantum cryptography, in particular code-based cryptography, elliptic curve cryptography (isogenies), lattice-based cryptography, multivariate cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs and blockchains, hash-based cryptography.

Dynamical Systems and Control Theory

Nonlinear dynamical systems, computational topological methods, complex dynamical systems, fractal geometry, mathematical theory of control systems, stability analysis

Foundations of Mathematics

Constructive mathematics; set theory; higher computability

Mathematical Biology

Multi-host multi-strain epidemiological models, host immune response, nested immuno-epidemiological dynamics, spatial temporal dynamics in epidemiology, reaction diffusion systems, cell motility, time-since-infection structured partial differential equations, age structured pde's, avian influenza, Ebola

Probability and Statistics

Time-series analysis and regression modeling; parametric and nonparametric function estimation; weak convergence of stochastic processes; environmental statistics and biostatistics

Mathematics Education

Technology in the classroom, integrated curricula, improving performance for pre-calculus mathematics and in mathematics for engineering students