Mathematics & Statistics Department

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October 16, 2025 - Fall 2025 News

Reed Math & Stats Students Share Summer Research - On September 18, Math and Stats students took turns presenting the results of their summer research projects at the department colloquium. Pictured are June Duvivier (Planar Turán Numbers and Extremal Constructions), Shanna Goldman (Convex Geometries not Representable by Spheres), Manu Klein (Probabilistic Program Verification), and Emy Musgrove (Sensitivity of augmented weighted estimators to omitted variables).

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May 21, 2025 - Simons Foundation selects Kyle Ormsby as Open Interval Symmetry awardee

$A collage of portraits of the many recicpients of the Open Interval Symmetry award$

The Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division has selected fifteen teams of scientists, artists, and organizers to participate in this year's Open Interval program, centered around the theme 'symmetry', including Reed Mathematics & Statistics chair Kyle Ormsby. Ormsby will collaborate with local artist Meech Boakye and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art artistic director and curator of visual art Kristan Kennedy on an open-ended exploration of how mathematics and art can inform each other.

April 25, 2025 - Angélica Osorno named F. L. Griffin Associate Professor of Mathematics

$photo of Angélica Osorno$

Osorno is one of four professors named to endowed chairs.

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