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Today it is one of the largest departments in NUS, with about 60 faculty members and teaching staff.

The history of the Department of Mathematics at NUS traces back to 1929, when science education began in Singapore with the opening of Raffles College with three students enrolled in Mathematics.

Latest News

Congratulations to our alumni Dr Tang Tianyun on being awarded the 2026 Babuška Thesis Prize!

19 November 2025

Congratulations to Associate Professor Bao Huanchen on being awarded the ICCM 2025 Silver Medal!

19 November 2025

Congratulations to Professor Sun Rongfeng on being ICM 2026 Invited Speaker (Probability)!

19 November 2025

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Research Highlights

Sparse Multi-Reference Alignment : Phase Retrieval, Uniform Uncertainty Principles and the Beltway Problem

Work of Associate Professor Subhroshekhar Ghosh

 

Product structure and regularity theorem for totally nonnegative flag varieties

Work of Assistant Professor Bao, Huanchen and Professor He, Xuhua

 

Constructing custom thermodynamics using deep learning

Work of Dr Xiaoli Chen, Dr Beatrice W Soh, Dr Zi-en Ooi, Dr Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin, Professor Haijun Yu, Professor Kostya S. Novoselov, Dr Kedar Hippalgaonkar and Assistant Professor Qianxiao Li