Rao V. Nagisetty, Professor Emeritus Passed Away
Rao Nagisetty was a highly esteemed member of the Mathematics Department from 1974 until and beyond his retirement in 2008. Department members and visitors alike came to Rao to discuss their favorite mathematical topics. His research interests were complex analysis, approximation theory and potential theory but he was knowledgeable about all mathematics. He established the the Complex Analysis seminar which grew into today's Complex Analysis and Operator Theory seminar and group in Toledo. Rao passed away on July 16, 2024 in Portland Oregon in the company of his wife and family. He was 85. Read more.
Henry C. Wente, Distinguished UToledo Professor Passed Away
Distinguished professor of mathematics emeritus who won international renown with his “Wente torus,” a counterexample to a long-open conjecture involving a soap bubble’s curvature, passed away January 20, 2020 in Mercy Health St. Anne Hospital. He was 83. Read more.
The Wente Torus
A computer-generated view of an amazing three-lobed surface discovered in 1984 by Dr. Henry Wente of the UToledo Mathematics Department.
What's Happening in the Department:
Current (past/future) news:
- Wednesday April 15, 2026 SIAM Undergraduate Math Triva Night in FH 1230 6-8pm.
- Friday April 10, 2026 Colloquium: Daozhou Gao (Cleveland State University) talks on Effects of Human Movement on the Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases in UH4010 4-5pm.
- Tuesday April 7, 2026 AMS Seminar: Ayako Carter (PhD student from Bowling Green State University) talks on Configuration Spaces and Modules Over Cyclic Operads in UH 2210 4-5pm.
- Thursday April 2, 2026 Colloquium: Steven J. Miller (Williams College) talks on The Katz-Sarnak Density Conjecture and Bounding Central Point Vanishing of L-Functions in UH4010 4-5pm.
- Thursday April 2, 2026 2nd Annual NSM Undergraduate Research Expo in the Field House Atrium 12-3pm, several posters from our department!
- March 2026: Kathy Fisher, Distinguished University Lecturer, has received the Outstanding Teacher Award - another well-deserved recognition of her excellence in teaching.
- Friday March 27, 2026 Colloquium: Bernardo Rivas (University of Toledo) talks on Computational Dynamics in UH4010 4-5pm.
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Toledo offers graduate and undergraduate programs in both Mathematics and Statistics. Currently, the Department has about forty full-time graduate students and thirty full-time faculty with a wide range of research interests.
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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is housed in University Hall, which was built in the Collegiate Gothic style and completed in 1931 at a cost of $2,000,000 dollars. University Hall was designed by the architectural firm of Mills, Rhines, Bellman and Nordhoff, Inc. 400 workers took 11 months and used 50,000 tons of limestone to complete the 63 foot tall building and its 205 foot tower!