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The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Ben Fehrman was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. His research is funded through an EPSRC Early Career Grant. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Chicago. 

His research interests are in Stochastic partial differential equations and Data analysis/Machine learning.

The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Nadia Drenska was a Rufus Isaacs Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from NYU. Her research interests include financial mathematics, optimal control theory, and data science (online machine learning problems).

The LSU Math Department welcomes its new Assistant Professors: Ana Balibanu was a Benjamin Peirce Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Chicago, and her research interests are in geometric representation theory.

Michael Malisoff, LSU Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a 3-year research grant entitled ``Designs and Theory for Interval Contractors and Reference Governors with Aerospace Applications'' from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is collaborative with Laurent Burlion, who is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

LSU Professor of Mathematics Arnab Ganguly has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project on Learning complex stochastic systems.

LSU Professor of Mathematics Hongchao Zhang has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project on Active Set Methods for Large-scale Sparse Nonlinear Optimization. Large-scale nonconvex sparse nonlinear optimization problems frequently arise in many modern applications where speed, stability and solution accuracy are critically important.

LSU Assistant Professor Fang-Ting Tu secured a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project in Number Theory. This project focuses on investigating the connection between two fundamental objects in number theory: modular forms and hypergeometric functions.

The LSU Department of Mathematics presented its annual math major awards at the 2023 LSU College of Science Honors Convocation: Michael Gravois is the recipient of the 2023 Betti and Robert Giles Senior Mathematics Award. Han Nguyen received the Pasquale Porcelli Rising Senior Undergraduate Scholarship, and Jay Garcia the Pasquale Porcelli Rising Junior Undergraduate Scholarship.

Ling Long is the recipient of the 2023 LSU College of Science Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award recognizes superior teaching in undergraduate courses.

 LSU Assistant Professor of Mathematics Gene Kopp G has recently been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a research project that aims to explore the relationship between number theory and quantum information theory. In particular, the project will focus on investigating the connections between Zauner's conjecture, a key problem in quantum information theory, and certain open problems in number theory.