Ahmad Barhoumi
Department of Mathematics, Grinnell College
| Office: Noyce 2611 | Email: barhoumia@grinnell.edu | Tel.: (641)269-4927 |
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Employment
- August 2025 - present: Assistant Professor, Grinnell College
- September 2023 - July 2025: Postdoc, KTH Royal Institite of Technology (Mentor: M. Duits)
- August 2020 - May 2023: Postdoc, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Mentor: P. Miller)
Other Activities
- August - December 2024: Local postdoc at Institut Mittag-Leffler
- Program: Random Matrices and Scaling Limits
- Summer 2026: Project NExT fellow (Silver '26)
Education
- August 2020: PhD in Mathematics, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN (PhD Advisor: M. Yattselev)
- May 2015: BS in Mathematics, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
- May 2015: BS in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
Selected Awards
- 2022: The Juha Heinonen Departmental Teaching Award
- 2020: Outstanding Advanced Mathematics Graduate Student Award
- 2016: Outstanding Beginning Mathematics Graduate Student Award
- 2015: School of Science Chancellor’s Scholar
- 2014, 2015 (awarded twice): Yuri Abramovich Memorial Scholarship
- 2015: James D. Bercaw Distinguished Engineering Student Award
- 2013: Outstanding Math Assistance Center Tutor Award
- 2011-2015: Chancellor’s Recognition Scholarship
Invited Talks
- October '25: Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis
- May '25: Constructive Functions 2025 - Celebrating Ed Saff's 80th birthday
- Jan '25: AMS Joint Math Meeting special session on integrable systems
- December '24: Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar @ U(M)
- June '24: Analysis Seminar @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- May '24: Analysis Seminar @ Stockholm University
- December '23: Mathematical Physics Seminar @ University of Bristol
- September '23: Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar @ KTH
- August '23: IWOTA 2023 @ University of Helsinki
- April '23: AMS Sectional Meeting @ University of Cincinnati
- January '23: Analysis Seminar @ Ohio State University
- October '22: Analysis Seminar @ University of Central Florida
- October '22: Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis
- September '22: SIAM Nonlinear Waves Conference
- March '22: IMACS Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations
- March '22: AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting @ Tufts University (Virtual)
- November '21: Student Analysis Seminar @ U(M)
- June '21: OPSFOTA Virtual Seminar
- March '21: Seminar on Complex Analysis (Gonchar Seminar), Virtual Seminar
- September '20: Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar @ U(M)
- May '20: CAOPA Virtual Seminar
- October '19: Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar @ U(M)
- July '19: 14th OPSFA International Symposium
- October '17: AMS Student Chapter @ IUPUI - Mini-course Series
Contributed Talks
- July '26: SIAM Annual Meeting 2026
- June '22: 16th OPSFA International Symposium
- May '22: Baylor University Analysis Fest
- March '19: The 35th Annual Southeastern Analysis Meeting (SEAM)
- March '19: Ohio River Analysis Meeting
Poster Presentations
- October '19: Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis
- March '18: Conference on Scientific Computing and Approximation
- October '18: Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis
Service
Organization
- Summer '26: Co-organizer of professional development activities for math Mentored Advanced Projects (MAPS) students at Grinnell College
- July '26: SIAM Annual Meeting Session on "Recent Advances in Asymptotic Analysis and Special Functions"
- August '24 - December '24: Scientific activities for junior fellows at the Random Matrices and Scaling Limits program hosted by Institut Mittag-Leffler
- September 2023 - May 2024: Probability and Math Physics Seminar @KTH Co-organizer
- January '23: AMS Joint Math Meeting Special Session on Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications
- Fall '21 - Spring '23: Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory Seminar @ U(M) Co-organizer
- Fall '18 - Spring '19: Student-Run Analysis Seminar Organizer
- Summer '18, '19: IUPUI Multidisciplinary Symposium Co-organizer
- Fall '16: AMS Student Chapter Qualifying Exam Workshop Leader
- Spring '13 - Spring '15: Mathematics Assistance Center Orientation Leader
Committees
- Spring '26: Grinnell College Math Department Visiting Assistant Professor Hiring Committee Member
- Summer '19 - Spring '20: IUPUI High School Math Contest Committee Member
- Fall '18: IUPUI AMS Student Chapter Secretary
- Spring '13 - Spring '15: Mathematics Assistance Center Hiring Committee
Refereeing and reviews
- Summer '26: Judge for MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session @ MathFest
- Manuscripts reviewed for: Transactions of Mathematics and Its Applications; Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry (SIGMA); Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (ANONA); Random Matrices: Theory and Applications (RMTA); IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis; Journal of Approximation Theory (JAT).
- Reviewer for AMS MathSciNet and zbMath.
- Book proposal review for Springer
