CSUSM Department of Mathematics

Research and Development Day at CSUSM, 5/1/26. Congrats to all poster presenters!

The Reid Lecture is tonight at 6 pm! Dr. Steve Butler of Iowa State University will give a talk entitled "Juggling Counts" in the USU Ballroom. Park at the top of the parking structure.

Math Professor Overcomes Long Odds to Appear on 'Jeopardy' Kimberly Ayers is like a lot of people when it comes to phone calls from numbers she doesn’t recognize – she ignores them.But in January, one of those unknown callers left a voicemail.The person said they were calling from the TV game show “Jeopardy.” Ayers had gone through the tryout proces...

Today the faculty and students heard a talk from Prof. Aitken titled "Guitar Math for Math Majors".

3:23 am, 3/3/2026, outside of the ADM building. If you're awake, it's not too late to see this morning's lunar eclipse from campus.

CSUSM commencement at Frontwave Area in Oceanside 12/15/25. Our fall 2025 math graduates: Yazen Al-Nakib, Eric Parrott, Chris Ficere, Stella Meuhlhausen, Jaime Espinosa. Congratulations!

It's Giving Day! The Mathematics program support has a fund today - we would appreciate gifts of all sizes. Just click the link below. Thank you! We also have a challenge from our Dean of $500 to the CSTEM department with the most unique donors.

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Founding Faculty Brooks and Marion Reid Champion Student Success As a student-athlete competing in cross country and track and field, Renton McGregor spends most of the year practicing and competing.“On top of training up to three hours a day, my major in algorithmic mathematics is very demanding and leaves little time to hold a job,” McGregor said. “I’m ...

This past week (10/23/25) the department heard from Prof. Gail Tang of the University of La Verne on Creativity-fostering Teaching Actions and their Affective Outcomes. We prefer enjoyment, confidence, and comfort!

We took a field trip! On Saturday, 10/18/25, six students gave poster presentations at the local sectional meeting of the Mathematical Association of America at CSU Fullerton.