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17 September 2026

“Mathematics is an art”: Waldo Arriagada in Gazeta’s The Incomers

Waldo Arriagada, a Chilean-Canadian mathematician who joined the department a year ago, talks to Gazeta about finding mathematics through the notion of a limit in a first calculus class, his path from Santiago through Toronto, Montreal, the Bahamas, Abu Dhabi and China to Tashkent, and why he thinks a mathematician is closer to an artist than a scientist.

The Incomers is a joint project of Gazeta and New Uzbekistan University about people from abroad who have made Uzbekistan their home.

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12 June 2026

Mathematics named a priority in the new partnership with Peking University

A Peking University delegation led by Vice President Professor Ning Qi visited New Uzbekistan University, and the two universities agreed to widen their cooperation. Mathematics was named alongside artificial intelligence as a priority area for joint research projects.

The agreement also covers student and faculty exchange, the GLOBEX International Summer Program, and continued work through the China–Uzbekistan Belt & Road Mathematics Center initiative through 2030.

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7 June 2026

Amir Jafari receives the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award

Amir Jafari, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, has received the 2026 Influential Paper Award of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, for work co-authored with Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown University.

The award was presented at AAMAS 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus, one of the leading conferences in artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. It recognises his contributions to artificial intelligence, game theory and multi-agent systems.

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5 June 2026

Gonçalo Pinto on building a life in Tashkent, in Gazeta’s The Incomers

Gonçalo Pinto, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has taught for forty years, in Lisbon, the Bahamas, Kazakhstan and Oman, and at New Uzbekistan University since 2023. He tells Gazeta how a family of mathematicians and a PhD in Scotland led to a career abroad, how his ideas about teaching changed, and what he has come to love about Tashkent.

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27 September 2024

Gonçalo Pinto completes a teaching programme at MIT

Gonçalo Pinto completed a training programme in innovative teaching methods at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first under the university’s new agreement with MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL). The partnership also aims to open internship opportunities for students.

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27 October 2023

Three medals at the Al-Khorezmi International Mathematical Olympiad

Students of New Uzbekistan University won three medals at the Second Al-Khorezmi International Mathematical Olympiad for university students: silver for Abrorjon Butayev and Olimjon Olimov, and bronze for Jasurbek Ruziboyev.

The olympiad brought together 225 students in 40 teams, 14 of them international.

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