| Feb 29-Mar 1 | Data Science and Image Analysis
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| Feb 28 | Teaching Mathematics in the 21st Century
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| Jan 27 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter - Tea!
The AMS Graduate Student Chapter will be holding a monthly tea on the last Monday of every month from 2:30-3:30pm in the Hacker Lounge. The first tea will be Monday, January 27th! You are cordially invited to attend! |
| Jan 22 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Jan 22 | WSU Analysis Seminar
There will be an analysis seminar organizational meeting today. Everyone is welcome!
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| Jan 21 | Math Bio Seminar
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| Jan 14 | Dr. Bala Krishnamoorthy
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| Jan 1 | Dr. Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta
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| Nov 6 | $2,000 Undergrad Research Scholarship available for spring 2020!Don't miss out! If you are a certified math major you may qualify for a $2,000 undergraduate research scholarship for spring 2020. The application deadline is November 6, 2019. Please click here for more information and an application. |
| Oct 31 | MLC Halloween Event!
Need a break? Come to the MLC on 10/31 for a costume contest that will run from 1:00-8:00pm. There will be prizes for the best costumes! Solve some spooky logic puzzles from 10:00am to 9:00pm! Come one, come all! Cleveland 130! |
| Oct 29 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 28 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 24 | L-Functions and Modular Forms
Matthew Jobrack will give a colloquium at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. The title of his talk is, "L-Functions and Modular Forms." Prior to the colloquium, we invite you to join us at 3:30pm for refreshments in the Neill Hall Hacker Lounge (Neill 216). For an abstract please click here. |
| Oct 23 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter - SQL Workshop!The AMS Graduate Student Chapter will be holding an Introduction to SQL Workshop! Andris Bibelnieks will be leading the workship in Cleveland 130C (MLC classroom). SQL is a query language used with databases. Bring a laptop to follow along! See you there from 4:10-5:00pm! |
| Oct 22 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 21 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 19 | SIAM PNW Section
Seattle University hosted the 2nd Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific NW Section on October 18-20, 2019. The conference brought together Pacific Northwest applied mathematics in academia, national labs and industry. Emeritus Professor David Wollkind gave a talk on Fluid Mechanics: Systems and Models. This work has been published in Involve - a journal of mathematics, vol 12, no. 7 2019 (or you may click here). |
| Oct 16 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Charles Moore
Charles Moore will give a talk titled, "Random Riemann Sums."
Click here for the analysis website, and abstract.
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| Oct 15 | Math Bio Seminar
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| Oct 15 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 14 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 11 | Grad students! Bowl that stress AWAY!
Allison Fisher and Damilola Olabode, two department senators for the Graduate Professional Student Association (GPSA), along with GPA President Ralph Chikhany invite all graduate and professional students along with their family and friends, to a GPSA Bowling night at Zeppoz from 6:00-8:00pm! Come have a fun time and meet other graduate students! Click here for more information. |
| Oct 9 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter - Tea!
The AMS Graduate Student Chapter is hosting a tea in the Hacker Lounge from 2:30-3:30pm! You are cordially invited to attend! |
| Oct 9 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Katrina Sabochick
Katrina Sabochick will give a talk titled, "Limit Sets of Functions and Their Properties."
Click here for the analysis website, and abstract.
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| Oct 8 | Math Bio Seminar
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| Oct 8 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 7 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 4 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Indranil Chowdhury from the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will give a talk titled, "Fate and Transport of Nanoscale Plastics in Aquatic Environment."
For an abstract please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer
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| Oct 1 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 1 | The 2019 Calvin and Jean Long
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| Sept 30 | The 2019 Calvin and Jean Long
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| Sept 27 | Colloquium - Dr. Juanjuan Fan
Please join us for the first academic year colloquium when Dr. Juanjuan Fan of San Diego State University will give a talk titled, "Matching Methods for Observational Data with Small Group Sizes and Missing Covariates".
Please click here for an abstract.
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| Sept 25 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Zach Hilliard
Zach Hilliard will give a talk titled, "An Anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard Equation with Variable Mobility
and a Gravity Potential."
Click here for the analysis website, and abstract.
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| Sept 24 | Math Bio Seminar
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| Sept 24 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Sept 23 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sept 20 | Porous Media Seminar
Santhosh Kumar, a PhD candidate in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, will be taking us to outer space to see how water behaves under very small gravitational conditions! The title of his talk is, "Computational Modeling of Capillary Flows in Microgravity."
For an abstract please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer.
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| Sept 19 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter - Learn LaTeX!
Come learn LaTeX! Dr. Sergey Lapin will lead a LaTeX workshop from 4:10-5:00pm in Neill 101W. This is a great opportunity to learn or brush up on LaTeX, and also learn some new tricks! |
| Sept 17 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Sept 16 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sept 11 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Jakob Streipel
Jakob Streipel will give a talk titled, "Functional equations."
Click here for the analysis website, and abstract.
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| Sept 11 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter - Tea!
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) Graduate Student Chapter is excited to start another year with new and familiar faces. On Wednesday, September 11, we will be hosting our first tea of the semester. Come to Hacker Lounge from 2:30-3:30 pm to visit with others in the department! Note: If you are not currently enrolled as a member on our page on Engageportal, please sign up! This is not CougSync so even if you joined us in CougSync, you might need to redo it. You may do so at the following link: https://wsu.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/wsuams! |
| Sept 10 | Math Bio Seminar - Xueying Wang
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| Sept 10 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Sept 9 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sept 6 | Porous Media Seminar
Saumya Amarasiri, a Clinical Assistant Professor of the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will give a talk titled, "Pore Structure Models to Predict Hydraulic Conductivity of Recycled Asphalt Pavements."
For an abstract please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer.
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| Sept 4 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Adebo Sidjuwade
Adebo Sidjuwade will give a talk titled, "Well-posedness for incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations."
Click here for the analysis website, and abstract.
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| Sept 3 | Math Bio Seminar - Jordan Culp
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| Sept 3 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Aug 27 | Math Bio Seminar - Allison Fisher
Allison Fisher will present and lead a discussion on a review article, "Neuronal Arithmetic".
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| Aug 27 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Aug 22 | Dr. William Hall with Upward Bound Students
Assistant Professor William Hall enjoyed teaching Upward Bound students this summer. Click here to read more. |
| Aug 21 | WSU Analysis Seminar
There will be an organizational meeting for the Analysis Seminar at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. The seminar will meet weekly, and topics and speakers will change each week. All are welcome.
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| Aug 20 | Math Ed Seminar - discussion for fall seminar
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| Aug 20 | Math Bio Seminar - discussion for fall seminar
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| Aug 19 | CLaN Seminar
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| Aug 16 | Faculty Aug 16 Promotions
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| May 28 | Outreach to Nespelem
Kim Vincent and future teachers visit students regularly in Nespelem, WA on the Colville Indian Reservation . Read the recent article, "Future math teachers instruct, learn from rural school children," about Kim's work with Nespelem and her work with the Inland Northwest Mathematics Experience (INME), by Adriana Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences. |
| May 8 | Dr. Leslie New's research effort with the international
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| May 4 | 2019 Spring Commencement Photos
The WSU Spring 2019 Commencement ceremony was held on Saturday, May 4th at 3:00pm at Beasley Coliseum for graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences. If you would like to see department photos of commencement please click here. |
| May 2 | End-of-the-Year BBQ Potluck
The department held its annual end-of-the-year BBQ potluck from noon to 1:30pm on the patio on the south side of Neill Hall. Students, faculty, staff, friends and family joined the event to celebrate the end of the academic year. Click here to see barbecue photos. |
| Apr 30 | Math Ed Seminar - discussion for fall seminar
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| Apr 25 | Colloquium - Dr. Jodi Mead
Dr. Jodi Mead from Boise State University will give a colloquium on April 25th.Click here for an abstract.
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| Apr 24 | Stats Seminar
Dr. Marc Evans is the speaker. This will be the last Stats Seminar of spring semester.
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| Apr 24 | Colloquium - Dr. John Carter
Dr. John Carter from Seattle University will give a colloquium titled, "Frequency Downshift in the Ocean" on April 24th. Click here for an abstract of his talk.
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| Apr 22 | Dr. Sandra Cooper has received a WSU Access Center AwardAssociate professor Sandra Cooper received a WSU Access Center Award on April 9th during its annual recognition banquet. Director of the Access Center Meredyth L. Goodwin said, "We so appreciate Dr. Cooper! She goes the extra mile to work with students who struggle in math. We have worked with her for several years and have honed the accommodation process for Math 100 and 103 courses. She has helped us understand and put in place procedures for when math waivers and substitutions are a reasonable accommodation. In all conversations, she thoughtfully balances the needs of the students with the importance and integrity of the course curriculum and UCORE objectives." |
| Apr 20 | Dr. Bala Krishnamoorthy receives WSU Vancouver
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| Apr 20 | B--O--W--L--I--N--G!
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| Apr 20 | Ask Dr. Universe! How many peas would fit in the sun?Keegan, age 8, recently asked Dr. Universe, "How many peas would fit in the sun?" To find the answer, Dr. Universe turned to Dr. Kimberly Vincent for her help. Click here to get the answer. |
| Apr 19 | Porous Media Seminar
Timothy D. Scheibe, Ph.D., a Laboratory Fellow with the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, and Lead Scientist for Multiscale Modeling in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL in Richland, Washington, will give a talk titled, "Where the Action Is: Mixing-Controlled Reactions in Porous Media."
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For an abstract please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer
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| Apr 17 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Richard Schoen will give a talk about some recent research in Mathematical General Relativity.
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| Apr 16 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Elissa Schwartz
Dr. Elissa Schwartz will give a talk on "Virus dynamics and antibody escape in equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) infection".
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| Apr 16 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Apr 16 | Dr. Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta
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| Apr 15 | CLaN Seminar
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| Apr 12 |
2019 Scholarship and Awards Ceremony
The annual Scholarship and Awards Ceremony was held on Friday, April 12th to recognize students with high academic achievement. Click here to read learn more about these students, donors, and see photos from the ceremony. |
| Apr 12-13 |
Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA - University of PortlandThe annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA will take place at the University of Portland from Apr. 12-13, 2019. For more information click here. |
| Apr 12 |
Scholarship and Awards Ceremony
Please join us for the spring 2019 department Scholarship and Awards Ceremony.
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| Apr 11 | The Thirty-eighth Annual T.G. Ostrom
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| Apr 10 | The Thirty-eighth Annual T.G. Ostrom Lecture"An ecological perspective on cancer"
The Thirty-eighth Annual T.G. Ostrom Lecture will be presented by invited speaker, Dr. Fred Adler, at 7:00pm in SPARK G45, on Wednesday April 10th, 2019. Dr. Adler is a professor of mathematics and biology from the University of Utah. Click here for an abstract.
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| Apr 9 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Jin Liu
Dr. Jin Liu from the WSU School of Mechnical and Materials Engineering will give a talk on "Stochastic modeling and simulations of targeted drug delivery across blood-brain barrier using nanoparticles".
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| Apr 9 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Apr 8 | CLaN Seminar
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| Apr 5 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. B. Muhunthan chairman of the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will give a talk titled, "Compressibility of Clays during Development of Structure."
For an abstract please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer
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| Apr 4 | Colloquium - Dr. Haonan Wang
Professor Haonan Wang from Colorado State University will give a colloquium titled, "Statistical Analysis of Complex and Inhomogeneous Data with Applicaiton to Neuroscience" on April 4th. Dr. Wang has a very wide research interest in complex data analysis in many different fields. Click here for an abstract of his talk.
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| Apr 3 | Stats Seminar
Dr. Abhishek Kaul is this weeks speaker.The title of his talk is, "Detection and Estimation in Dynamic High Dimensional Regression Models." Time and location: 4:10pm in SPRK 335. |
| Apr 2 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Stergios Fotopoulos
Dr. Stergios Fotopoulos from the WSU Department of Finance and Management Science will give a talk on "Multivariate generalized hyperbolic laws for modeling financial log-returns – empirical and theoretical considerations".
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| Apr 2 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Apr 1 | CLaN Seminar
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| Mar 28 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter - Tea Party!
Join the AMS Graduate Student Chapter for tea and refreshments!
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| Mar 27 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Yufeng Cao will give a talk titled, "Introduction to deep convolutional neural networks."
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| Mar 27 | Stats Seminar
Snow Wang is this weeks speaker.The title of her talk is, "Introduction to Epidemic Modeling on Networks." Time and location: 4:10pm in SPRK 335. |
| Mar 26 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Andreas Vasdekis
Dr. Andreas Vasdekis from the University of Idaho will give a talk on "Cellular Noise and Metabolic Trade-Offs".
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| Mar 26 | Dr. Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta has
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| Mar 26 | Dr. Judi Mcdonald has
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| Mar 26 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Mar 25 | CLaN Seminar
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| Mar 22 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Indranil Chowdhury from the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will give a talk titled, "Fate and Transport of Nanoscale Plastics in Aquatic Environment."
For an abstract please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer
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| Mar 21 |
  
Professors' Judi McDonald and Michael Tsatsomeros, along with K.C Sivakumar of the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras are the recipients of a SPARC grant (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) awarded by the government of India. The grant ($100K) will support visits to IIT and WSU by the investigators, the exchange of two graduate students per institution for one semester and the organization of workshops. |
| Mar 21 | Colloquium - Viktoria Taroudaki
Viktoria Taroudaki, an assistant professor from Eastern Washington University will be the colloquium speaker. |
| Mar 20 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Zach Hilliard will give a talk titled, "Generalized Functions and their Derivatives."
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| Mar 20 | Stats Seminar
Ziyi Chen is this weeks speaker.The title of his talk is, "An overview of three gradient boosting methods and their applications." Time and location: 4:10pm in SPRK 335. |
| Mar 20 | Lets Celebrate Pi Day!
What's the most wonderful day of the year? It's Pi Day! Join us for our annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). There will be Pi games, themed puzzles, and a Pi digit recitation along with food and PIES! Start memorizing the digits of Pi! There's a sign up sheet in Neill 103.
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| Mar 19 | Celebrating 27 days!
Math instructor Emily Sablan had a baby on February 21st. She and baby are doing well and today baby Charlotte Eloise turns 27 days old! |
| Mar 19 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Joanna Kelly
Dr. Joanna Kelly from the WSU School of Biological Sciences will give a talk on "Evolutionary genomics in extreme environments".
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| Mar 19 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Mar 18 | CLaN Seminar
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| Mar 14 | Dr. Judi McDonald has been named
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| Mar 11 | What does Social Media know about YOU?
Aimed at Pullman High School students, a data literacy workshop will be held on Monday, March 11th, where students will learn about data collected on them by their use of social media. If students are interested in attending they should contact Mr. Carlson of the Pullman High School for details. The workshop is sponsored by the American Statistical (ASA) Club. |
| Mar 7 | Part I of a Two-Part Python WorkshopDon't be left out! Join Part I of a two-part Python workshop in Cleveland 130C (MLC classroom) from 4:00pm - 5:00pm. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Hosted by the AMS Graduate Student Chapter. |
| Mar 5 | Math Bio Seminar - Zachary Hilliard
Zachary Hilliard will give a talk on "Numerically Solving a Generalized Cahn-Hilliard Equation".
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| Mar 5 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Mar 4 | CLaN Seminar
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| Mar 1 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Vikram Yadama will give a talk titled, "An exploration of wood’s porous structure and its importance."
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This presentation will briefly discuss the research interests of the presenter. His interests range from mechanics of wood and wood-based composites; modeling of engineered wood-based composites; structure-process-property relations; processing of wood-based composites, and; industrial extension/outreach in forest products. Presentation will also examine the structure of wood to understand its porous structure and its influence on properties and performance of wood and wood-based composites. If time permits, research findings related to influence of wood-strand preform on production and performance of molded wood strand panels will also be discussed.
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| Feb 28 |
Colloquium: Rebecca Doerge
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| Feb 27 |
Aren't babies WONDERFUL?
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| Feb 26 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Lynn Schreyer
Dr. Lynn Schreyer will give a talk on "Developing of a Deterministic Model for Mammal Migration based on Physics of Fluid Flow through Porous Media".
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| Feb 25 | CLaN Seminar
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| Feb 20 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Jakob Streipel will give a talk titled,> "Ultrametrics and Weird Calculus."
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| Feb 20 | Stats Seminar
Dr. Yuan Wang is this weeks speaker.The title of her talk is, "Radiology Image Analysis for Cancer Diagnosis." Time and location: 4:10pm in SPRK 335. |
| Feb 19 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Feb 19 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. James Brozik
Dr. James Brozik will give a talk on "(Bio)Molecular Machines, Markov Walks, and Single Molecule Tracking: Ion Channels, Enzymes, and Synthetic Polymers".
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| Feb 15 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Lynn Schreyer will give a talk titled, "Developing of a Deterministic Model for Mammal Migration based on Physics of Fluid Flow through Porous Media."
Abstract: Please contact Dr. Schreyer for an abstract. |
| Feb 13 | Stats Seminar
Dr. Krishna Jandhyala is this weeks speaker.The title of his talk is, "Multiple Change-Point Models for Time Series with Applications to Nile River Data." Time and location: 4:10pm in SPRK 335. |
| Feb 13 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Konstantinos Tsampourakis will give a talk titled, "Information Theory and Randomness."
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| Feb 12 | Math Bio Seminar - Allison Fisher
Allison Fisher will give a talk on "Mathematical Modeling of Gene Networks".
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| Feb 12 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Feb 6 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Yunfeng Hu will give a talk titled, "An Introduction to Data Compression."
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| Feb 5 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Richard Gomulkiewicz
Dr. Richard Gomulkiewicz will give a talk on "Metapopulation Allee effects, habitat destruction, and extinction in metacommunities".
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| Feb 5 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Feb 4 | CLaN Seminar
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| Feb 1 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Tim Ginn will give a talk titled, "Phase Exposure-Dependent Exchange used to derive upscaled models of transport of solutes, suspensions, or twins."
Abstract: Please contact Dr. Schreyer for an abstract. |
| Jan 30 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Enrique Alvarado will give a talk titled, "An Introduction to Analysis on Graphs."
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| Jan 30 | Stats Seminar
Dr. Marc Evans is this weeks speaker. Time and location: 4:10pm in SPRK 335. |
| Jan 29 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Nick Strigul
Dr. Nick Strigul will give a talk on "Development of nex-generation forest biogeochemistry models".
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| Jan 29 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Jan 28 | CLaN Seminar
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| Jan 24 | International Math Modeling Contest
Read about the 2019 International Math Modeling Contest that took place from January 24-26 with a WSU team of three students. |
| Jan 24 |
Dr. Sean D. Lawley, assistant professor from the University of Utah will give a colloquium titled, "Diffusion in a randomly fluctuating environment."
Please click here for an abstract. Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in the Neill Hall 216 Hacker Lounge prior to the colloquium. |
| Jan 22 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Jan 15 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Jan 2 | Greetings from Thomas Cameron
Holiday greetings from former graduate student Thomas Cameron, Mathematics Ph.D. '16. Another addition was made to the Cameron family on December 21, 2018. "Emmy Noehr Cameron made her debut right before the holidays. Her big brother is absolutely in love with her and she has been the best gift to us all!" Thomas is currently a visiting assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.
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| Dec 13 | Department Holiday
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| Dec 13 | Update on former graduate student
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| Dec 8 | 2018 Fall Commencement Photos
Mathematics graduating senior Kayla Rhodes was chosen to carry the College of Arts and Sciences banner (also known as a gonfalon) at the start of the Washington State University Commencement ceremony in Pullman on 12/8/18. Kayla graduates with a double major in math and computer science. She is president of the Math Club and has completed internships at Disney, HP, and CDK Global. She'll return to Disney in January 2019 to work on another machine learning project. Go Kayla!
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| Dec 5 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Katrina Sabochick will give a talk titled, "Simplicial Complexes and their Applications in Data Analsys."
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| Dec 4 | Math Bio Seminar - Elizabeth Amona
Elizabeth Amona will give a talk on "Modelling Ponzi Scheme Propagation Dynamics: An Epidemiological Approach".
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| Dec 4 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Nov 29 |
Dr. Emilie Purvine, a research scientist at PNNL will give a seminar titled, "Applications of topology for information fusion." The seminar will be available via videoconferencing.
Abstract: Please see www.wsu.edu/~kbala/VMathSem.html for an abstract.
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| Nov 29 |
Dr. Justin Marks, assistant professor from Gonzaga, will give a colloquium titled, "Manifold Methods for Averaging Subspaces."
Abstract: Please click here for an abstract. The colloquium is sponsored by the WSU American Mathematical Society Student Chapter. |
| Nov 28 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Vlad Oles will present on some of the topics covered in the MSRI summer school "Representations of High Dimensional Data", focused on the field of Compressed Sensing (CS). We will cover the basic framework of CS, like sparse signals, encoders, and decoders, and talk about the necessary conditions for successful recovery of a signal in this framework. In particular, we will touch the notions of spark and coherence of a (encoder) matrix, and their interplay with the sparsity of a signal.
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| Nov 27 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Nov 27 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Hua Tan will give a talk titled, "Absorption of Inkjet Droplets by Porous Substrates."
Abstract: Please contact Dr. Schreyer for an abstract. |
| Nov 26 | CLaN Seminar
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| Nov 20 | Dr. Kimberly Vincent has been appointed
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| Nov 19 | Dr. Sergey Lapin Receives an Outstanding
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Nov 13 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
Dr. Audrey Fu will give a talk titled, "Imputation of single-cell gene expression with an autoencoder neural network".
See the Mathematical Biology Seminar website.
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| Nov 13 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Nicholas Engdahl will give a talk titled, "A crash course in modern Lagrangian methods for simulating mass transport and reactions in fluids."
Abstract: Please contact Dr. Schreyer for an abstract. |
| Nov 7 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Adebo Sijuwade will give a talk titled, "Sobolev-type Inequalities: an approach using upper gradients."
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| Nov 6 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
Dr. Yuan Wang will give a talk titled, "Statistical Learning for Tree-Structured Data".
See the Mathematical Biology Seminar website.
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| Nov 6 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Nov 5 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 31 | Montana Math Modeling Challenge On the weekend of October 20-21, 2018 Dr. Lynn Schreyer and instructor David Hampson took eight WSU students to Carroll College in Helena, Montana to compete in the Montana Math Modeling Challenge. For more information and photos click here. |
| Oct 30 | Northwest Math Conference
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| Oct 31 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Zach Hilliard will give a talk titled, "The Cahn-Hilliard equation."
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| Oct 30 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
Dr. Andrew Storfer from the WSU School of Biological Sciences will give a talk titled, "Evolutionary genomics of Tasmanian devils and their facial tumor disease
." See the Mathematical Biology Seminar website.
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| Oct 30 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 29 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 24 | The 4th Annual Calvin and Jean Long
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| Oct 23 | The 4th Annual Calvin and Jean Long department colloquium (as part of the Calvin and Jean Long Distinguished Lecture in Mathematics)Dr. Lawrence Craig Evans from the University of California, Berkeley will give a Long Lecture department colloquium on October 23rd the day before the Calvin and Jean Long Distinguished Lecture in Mathematics. This colloquium talk titled, "Riccati Equation Methods for Weak KAM Theory," will be held in Neill 5W at 4:10pm. Please join us at 3:30pm for refreshments with Dr. Evans prior to the colloquium in the Hacker Lounge (Neill 216). Click here to download a colloquium flier. |
| Oct 23 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 22 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 17 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Dr. Charles Moore will give a talk titled, "Bachelier's thesis: "Theory of Speculation."
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| Oct 16 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
Dr. HongMing Yin will give a talk on, "On a reaction-diffusion system modeling the optimal tumor treatment." See the Mathematical Biology Seminar website.
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| Oct 16 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 16 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Lynn Schreyer will give a talk on, "Macroscale and Microscale Analysis of Deforming Saturated Porous Media: Terzaghi Stress Principle and the Significance of Shear and Plasticity in Hydrostatic Compression."
This talk focuses on the current state of deriving the governing equations for deforming saturated porous media. The ultimate goal is to predict deformation given an overburden load (for an external pressure load only, this is referred to as the confining pressure) and a liquid pore pressure. |
| Oct 15 | CLaN Seminar
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| Oct 11 |
Colloquium: Rhonda Crate, Boeing
Rhonda Crate of Boeing's Analytics and Information Management Orgainzation will give a colloquium talk titled, "Using split modeling and visualizations to show contributing factors and predictions for high risk scheduling activities," on October 11th at 4:00pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments will be served during the presentation. This colloquium is sponsored by the American Statistical Association Chapter of WSU. Please join us! |
| Oct 10 |
Five $2,000 Undergraduate Scholarships
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| Oct 10 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Dr. Xiongzhi Chen will give a talk on, "Proportion estimators, Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral equations and concentration of measures."
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| Oct 9 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 8 |
Colloquium: Jim Brown, Chair of Mathematics
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| Oct 5 | Porous Media Seminar
Dr. Idil Akin of the WSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Department will give a talk on, "Unsaturated geoengineering and bio-geotechnics research at WSU." This talk focuses on the current state of unsaturated geoengineering and bio-geotechnics research at WSU and possible future applications. Abstract: Please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer for an abstract. Time and location: 5:10pm in PACCAR 202. |
| Oct 3 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Yufeng Cao will give a talk on, "Medical image segmentation"
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| Oct 2 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
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| Oct 2 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Oct 1 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sep 27 |
Dr. Bala Krishnamoorthy is using
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Sep 26 |
Joint Analysis and Colloquium Talk
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| Sept 25 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
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| Sep 25 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Sep 24 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sep 21 |
Graduate student Jillian Morrison
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| Sept 19 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Jakob Streipel will give a talk on, "Filters and topology"
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| Sep 18 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Sept 18 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
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| Sept 18 | Porous Media Seminar - Dr. Qizhen Li WSU School of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTitle: "Porous magnesium composites: Promising materials for diverse applications" Abstract: Please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer for an abstract. Time and location: 4:10pm in Neill 5W (note this is a change from PACCAR 202 for this week). |
| Sep 17 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sept 12 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Dr. Matt Duez will give a talk on, "Space without points: the fuzzy sphere for physics students."
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| Sep 12 | Semi-monthly AMS Graduate Student
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| Sep 11 | Math Ed Seminar
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| Sep 10 | CLaN Seminar
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| Sept 5 | WSU Analysis Seminar
Enrique Alvarado will give a talk on, "Analyst's Traveling Salesman Problem and Jones' Beta Numbers."
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| Sep 4 | Mathematics Biology Seminar
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| Sep 4 | Mathematics Education Seminar
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| Aug 31 | Greetings from Osama Fakron!
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| Aug 29 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Come see a lecture!
This week the WSU Analysis Seminar will be showing a lecture by Walter Ruden titled, "Set Theory: An Offspring of Analysis." |
| Aug 27 | CLaN Seminar - David Watkins
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| Apr 24 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Robert Dillon
Dr. Robert Dillon will give a talk on "Immersed interface-immersed boundary methods for AC and DC
dielectrophoretic particle interaction in a micro channel.".
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| Aug 16 |
Dr. Nikolaos Voulgarakis has promoted
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| Aug 16 |
Dr. Nikolay Strigul has promoted
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| Aug 14 |
Dr. Bala Krishnamoorthy awarded
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| Jul 16 | Professor Emeritus David Watkins has
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| Jun 7 | Xiongzhi Chen receives WSU Seed grant
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| May 8 | Professor Emeritus David Wollkind has
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| May 8 | Dr. Sergey Lapin Receives Honors College Award
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| May 7 | 2018 Spring Commencement Photos
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| May 7 | Graduate Student Ralph Chikhany Receives Awards
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| May 6 | Andrew Stevens, 2009 MS Mathematics - updateAndrews Stevens, 2009 MS Mathematics, is the owner and Chief Scientist at OptimalSensing LLC (www.optimalsensing.com). From 2009 to 2017 he was a staff scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). While working at PNNL, he completed his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Duke University (May 2018). Andrew works on compressive sensing and machine learning problems, especially in scientific imaging and electron microscopy. He has developed several new algorithms and imaging approaches (5 patents pending) that allow scientists to analyze materials and chemical processes at the atomic level. Many of the most important processes in materials engineering and biology/medicine occur by the movement of atoms—such as the storing of charge in Li-ion batteries and drug interactions with cells to cure disease. Understanding and controlling the way that atoms move will lead to new technologies that address the major global challenges of energy, defense, and human health. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-_ADUHwAAAAJ. His graduate advisor was Dr. Sergey Lapin. |
| May 5 | Math Senior James Whitbread has received the WSU 2018 Top Ten Senior Award for Academics Mathematics senior James Whitbread is the recipient of a WSU 2018 Top Ten Senior Award for Academics. He will attend Johns Hopkins University Medical School in the fall of 2018 to become a cardiac-thoracic surgeon. James will be recognized at an April 26th ceremony in CUE 518 at 3:30pm. James has also been selected as the 2018 Outstanding Senior in Mathematics and will be honored in the CAS Outstanding Senior Recognition Ceremony on Friday, May 4th, 2018 from 2:00-4:00pm in the Jones Theatre of Daggy Hall. Read more about mathematics major James Whitbread. |
| May 4 | Dr. Dean Johnson Associate Clinical Professor Dean Johnson has been elected to serve on the Statistical Consulting Council of Sections for 2019-2021 to advance the interests of the association and its members. The Statistical Consulting Council of Sections is part of the American Statistical Association (ASA). |
| May 3 | 2018 End-of-Year Barbecue Photos Each spring the department hosts an end-of-the-year barbecue for undergraduates, graduates, staff, and faculty to enjoy time together and celebrate graduating students and the completion of another academic year. The barbecue is held outside of Neill Hall. Click here to see photos of the barbecue. |
| Apr 24 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. V.S. Manoranjan
Dr. Manoranjan will discuss, "Population Models - Nonlinearity & Diffusion."
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| Apr 27 | Dr. Alan Genz Retirement Party Please join us in honoring professor, and former department chairman, Alan Genz for his many years of service to the department. Dr. Genz began working at the university in 1983, so he retires from WSU with close to 35 years of service. A small celebration will be held in the Hacker Lounge, Neill Hall room 216, at 3:00pm on April 27, 2018. Click here for more information and for photos. |
| Apr 25 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Kevin Vixie and Enrique AlvaradoTitle: An Invitation to Varifolds + An Announcement Abstract: Dr. Vixie will give a widely accessible introduction to Varifolds, which are a powerful generalization of manifolds, and Enrique will announce the Summer school we are organizing (Enrique is the Chair, Laramie Paxton is the co-Chair of the organizing committee.) Varifolds generalize currents which themselves generalize unions of oriented manifolds. As a result the idea of a boundary of a varifold is more challenging (and interesting). The summer school which Enrique will tell you about will be held in Portland, Oregon, July 9-12. |
| Apr 24 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. V.S. Manoranjan
Dr. Manoranjan will discuss, "Population Models - Nonlinearity & Diffusion."
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| Apr 23 | CLaN Seminar - Shenhui Liu
Shenhui Liu (University of Toronto) will give a colloquium style talk to the CLaN Seminar titled, "Nonvanishing of L-functions." |
| Apr 20 | Scholarship and Awards CeremonyJoin us for the annual Scholarship and Awards Ceremony when we recognize outstanding academic student performance. Meet outstanding scholars and enjoy refreshments with department members! 3:00pm in Neill Hall 5W. Click here to learn more about the 2018 scholarship recipients. |
| Apr 20-21 | PNW MAA Section Meeting The Pacific Northwest section meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) will be hosted by Seattle University on April 20-21, 2018. Click here for more information. |
| Apr 20 | Porous Media Seminar - Dr. Babak Abbasi Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU Tri-Cities
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| Apr 18 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Dave Field
Title: Stereological Characterization of Grain Boundaries and
Triple Junctions in Polycrystals |
| Apr 18 | Statistics Poster Competition Elementary School Statistics Poster Competition Three elementary schools participated in a statistics poster competition that was held on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at Jefferson Elementary School in Pullman, WA. The other two participating schools were Franklin Elementary of Pullman, WA, and Marie Curie STEM Elementary from Pasco, WA. The event was organized by Dean Johnson, WSU Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Click here to see posters. |
| Apr 17 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Svetlana Lockwood
Dr. Svetlana Lockwood from the Allen School, will
discuss "Deep Learning and Bioinformatics."
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| Apr 17 | Math-Ed Seminar: Teaching Calculus with
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| Apr 16 | Two Math Seniors'
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| Apr 16 | CANCELLED-CLaN Seminar
CANCELLED - due to severe Toronto weather the speaker was unable to attend. Shenui Liu (University of Toronto). He was scheduled to give a colloquium style talk to the CLaN Seminar titled, "Nonvanishing of L-functions." |
| Apr 14 | Faculty Receive ASWSU Faculty Appreciation Awards
The Associated Students of Washington State University (ASWSU) held their fifth annual Faculty & Staff Awards Banquet on Tuesday, April 10th. The ceremony was conducted in the Elson S. Floyd Multicultural Center. Candidates for awards were nominated by students, and the award recipients were then chosen from those candidates by a student committee. |
| Apr 12 | Dr. Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta - elected as a
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| Apr 11 | The Thirty-Seventh Annual T.G. Ostrom Lecture"The Art (and Science) of Biomedical Data
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| Apr 10 | The Thirty-Seventh Annual T.G. Ostrom Colloquium"Pathway-and-Network-based Integrative Bayesian
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| Apr 9 | CLaN Seminar - Jillian Glassett
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Jillian Glassett. |
| Apr 7 | Pacific Inland Mathematics Undergraduate
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| Apr 6 | Porous Media Seminar - Milena RangelovDoctoral candidate, Milena Rangelov, from Civil and Environment Engineering, will speak on "Optimization of Water Vapor Diffusivity Models of Mortar". Abstract: Cementitious composites exhibit shrinkage due to the loss of moisture through cement hydration (autogenous shrinkage) and drying (drying shrinkage). When restrained, shrinkage may cause cracking, which creates a premature failure and loss of serviceability of cement-based infrastructure. Reliable characterization of shrinkage demands the appropriate establishment of water vapor diffusivity, since drying of cementitious composites is typically described as a diffusion process. This talk presents a combined experimental and modeling study focused on characterization of water vapor diffusivity of 7 mortar mixtures using the inverse modeling technique. Implemented novel calibration methodology provided an enhanced understanding of the existing vapor diffusivity models for cementitious composites. The seminar will take place at 4:10pm in PACCAR 202. |
| Apr 5 | Whitworth Undergraduate VisitA math panel for undergraduate students visiting from Whitworth University will be held on Thursday, April 5th, from 12-12:30pm in Neill 216 (the Hacker Lounge). Approximately 15-20 students will visit to learn about graduate programs, job opportunities, college costs, financial aid, campus life, etc. Lunch will be provided and everyone is welcome to attend. Stop by and join this informative session! |
| Apr 4 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Steve Tomsovic
Title: The unusual nature of the baker’s map: a paradigm of chaos |
| Apr 2 | CLaN Seminar - Matthew Jobrack
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Matthew Jobrack. |
| Mar 28 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Jakob Streipel
Title: An Introduction to Discrete Dynamical Systems |
| Mar 26 | CLaN Seminar - Matthew Jobrack
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Matthew Jobrack. |
| Mar 23 | Porous Media Seminar - Dr. Markus Flury
Dr. Markus Flury, from the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, will give a seminar on, "The Role of Air-Water Interfaces in Colloid Transport in Porous Media." Abstract: Colloids can enhance the transport of otherwise immobile contaminants in soils and sediments. Colloids can themselves be contaminants, such as bacteria or viruses. In the vadose zone, colloid transport is usually less pronounced than in groundwater, mainly because the flow pathways are more restrictive and colloids get strained by water films or attach to air-water interfaces. However, air-water interfaces can also lead to colloid mobilization and enhanced transport. This talk will discuss the importance of the air-water interface in colloid transport and highlight how colloids interact with the air-water interface. The seminar will take place at 4:10pm in PACCAR 202. |
| Mar 21 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Hong-Ming Yin
Title: Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations |
| Mar 20 | Math Bio Seminar - Damiloa Olabode
Damilola Olabode will speak
on, "Optimal control in HIV chemotherapy with termination viral loads."
Click here for seminar information.
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| Mar 19 | CLaN Seminar - Matthew Jobrack
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Matthew Jobrack. |
| Mar 15 | Pi Day Photos |
| Mar 13 | AMS Workshop Event for Middle School StudentsAn AMS Workshop Event for middle school students will be held on Monday, March 13th, 2018, from 9am to 2pm, with a lunch break from noon to 1pm. To peak student interest in mathematics and statistics, several projects, activities, and give-away prizes are planned. Please contact Ralph Chikhany, President of the AMS Student Chapter for more information. |
| Mar 9 | It's a Pi Day Celebration!
(Dr. Kim Vincent gets pie'd!) Please join us for a Pi Day Celebration Friday, March 9th from 11am - 1pm in the Hacker Lounge (Neill 216). It's potluck style! If you feel so inclined you may bring a pie or desser, but you are not required to bring anything but yourself! There is a sign-up sheet in Neill 103 if you do wish to bring something.
We will have Pi games:
The highlight of the celebration will take place at 12:30pm when someone gets to throw a pie in a professor's face! All of the game winners will be entered into a raffle to *"Pi a Prof"* where they'll get to throw a pie! You certainly don't want to miss out on this opportunity! |
| Mar 6 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Bob Dillon
Dr. Robert Dillon will speak on, "Effects of dynein activation and viscosity on
the emergent waveform of an elastic,
internally-actuated, model flagellum" Click here for seminar information, or here for an abstract.
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| Mar 5 | CLaN Seminar - Jakob Streipel
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Jakob Streipel. |
| Feb 26 | CLaN Seminar - Enzo Wendler
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Enzo Wendler. |
| Feb 23 | International Math Modeling Contest - Go Cougs!
Two teams of three WSU students competed in a recent international math modeling contest on February 8 -12, 2018. They accomplished their challenge and had a great time. For more information about math modeling please click here. Want to join the next competition? Contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer at lynn.schreyer@wsu.edu or David Hampson at dhampson@wsu.edu. |
| Feb 23 | Colloquium - Dr. Dominic Klyve
Dr. Dominic Klyve from Central Washington University will give a colloquium talk on Friday, February 23rd at 11:00am in Neill Hall 5W. In 2014, his teaching was recognized by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which selected him as a winner of the Alder Award, given to a young faculty member whose teaching has been shown to be influential both within and beyond the classroom. He has lectured across the country and around the world, and has held visiting positions in Canada and New Zealand. Refreshments will be provided. Click here for an abstract. |
| Feb 23 | Porous Media Seminar - Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi
Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi from the Nonwovens Institute of NC State University will be the speaker. Dr. Pourdeyhimi is this year’s InterPore (a 10-year old professional organization, see InterPore.org) Kimberly-Clark lecturer. Click here for an abstract. The seminar will be held at 4:10pm in PACCAR 202. If you have questions please contact Dr. Lynn Schreyer. |
| Feb 21 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Vlad Oles
Title: Gromov-Hausdorff metric application to temporal networks |
| Feb 20 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Mark Schumaker
Dr. Mark Schumaker will speak
on, "Prelimary results on a model of viral infection with both free-virus and cell-to-cell
infectivity." Click here for seminar information.
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| Feb 14 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Dr. Kevin Vixie
Title: Median Shapes: a guided tour |
| Feb 13 | James Whitbread - accepted to the Johns
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| Feb 13 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Elissa Schwartz
Dr. Elissa Schwartz will speak on, "Dynamics of Lentiviral Infection In Vivo in the Absence of Adaptive Immune Responses" Click here for seminar information.
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| Feb 12 | CLaN Seminar - Come enjoy a film!
Come watch the film, "Counting from infinity - Yitang Zhang and the twin prime conjecture." |
| Feb 9 | Porous Media Seminar - Dr. Marc Weber
Dr. Marc Weber will speak on, "Using Anti-Something to Learn about Nothing; Positrons as a Tool to Investigate Porosity." Dr. Weber was formerly with the WSU Materials Research Department but is now with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The seminar meets from 4:10pm to 5:00pm in ETRL 101. |
| Feb 7 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Dr. Kevin Vixie
Title: Approximation, Cones, and The Implicit Function Theorem |
| Feb 6 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. James Bull
Dr. James Bull from the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, will speak on, "Genetic engineering and suppression of pests." Click here for seminar information.
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| Feb 5 | CLaN Seminar - Jakob Streipel
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Jakob Streipel. |
| Jan 31 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Laramie Paxton,
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| Jan 30 | Math Bio Seminar - Xueying Wang
Dr. Xueying Wang will speak on, "Epidemic
dynamics of cholera in non-homogeneous environments" Click here for seminar information.
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| Jan 29 | CLaN Seminar - Dr. Sheng-Chi Liu
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker Dr. Shen-Chi Liu. |
| Jan 25 | Colloquium - Lyudmyla Barannyk
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| Jan 24 | Mathematics and Statistics Tea
Let's have tea! Join us every Wednesday from 3 - 4pm in Neill 216 (the Hacker Lounge) for tea, snacks and conversation! Come socialize with students and faculty of the department!
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| Jan 24 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Henry Riely and Yunfeng Hu
Title:: Analysis Question and a short report on the JMM2018 |
| Jan 23 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Richard Gomulkiewiz
Dr. Richard Gomulkiewicz from the WSU Department of Biology, will speak on, "How much does evolution delay extinction when it cannot be avoided?"
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| Jan 22 | CLaN Seminar - Dr. David Watkins
Come enjoy the CLaN seminar today with speaker emeritus professor Dr. David Watkins.
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Jan 20 | Spring Math Modeling Competition
January 20th is the deadline to join the 2018 Spring Math Modeling Competition that will be held on the WSU Pullman campus February 8-12. Read more about the spring modeling competition. |
| Dec 6 | Holiday CelebrationHoliday Celebration Photos |
| Dec 2 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter
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| Dec 1 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter
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| Nov 30 | Time to start looking for an Internship! Are you a sophomore or junior? Now is the time to begin looking for an internship! An internship provides professional experience and can often lead to a permanent job. Click here for internship help. |
| Nov 29 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Yufeng Cao
Title:: Maximum flow algorithm for total variation minimization |
| Nov 29 | New! Five Hacker Undergraduate Research
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| Nov 28 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Nikos Voulgarakis
Dr. Nikos Voulgarakis will speak on, "Mathematical modeling of DNA allostery." Click here for seminar information.
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| Nov 27 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Rachel Perrier
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 21 | Using pure and applied mathematics
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| Jan 20 | Join the Spring 2018 Math Modeling Competition!
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| Jan 9 | Mathematics Education Seminar
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| Jan 9 | Math Bio Seminar - organizational meetingThe Math Bio Seminar will have a short organizational meeting today in CUE 316. If you have questions plese contact Dr. Robert Dillon. |
| Jan 2 | Former instructor, Carolyn Smith has passed away
Former instructor, Carolyn Smith, passed away on Thursday, December 7, 2017, surrounded by her children at the Spokane Sacred Heart Medical Center. Carolyn Smith obituary. |
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| Dec 13 | Department Holiday
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| Dec 23 | Valorie Cheathon - The Calculus of Grace
Graduate student Valorie Cheathon talks about math, life, her aspirations, children, and single parenting in this news article titled, "The Calculus of Grace." Valorie can often be seen in the department or around Pullman with her beautiful children, and her beautiful approach to life. Read more about this amazing mother of two. |
| Dec 14 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Short Courses
Thursday, December 14th |
| Dec 13 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Short Courses
Tuesday, December 13th |
| Dec 12 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Short Courses
Tuesday, December 12th |
| Dec 11 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Short Courses
Monday, December 11th |
| Dec 9 | Fall Commencement Photos Fall commencement took place on Saturday, December 9th at 10:00am. Congratulations to all graduating seniors. To see commencement photos please click here. Michael Kasigwa, pictured above with mathematics professor and chair of the WSU Faculty Senate, Dr. Judi McDonald. Michael received his PhD in Mathematics. |
| Dec 6 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Fred Gittes
Title:: Falling Cats, Curvature and Gauge Theory |
| Dec 5 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Anders Omsland
Dr. Anders Omsland from the Allen School will speak on his recent work on *Coxiella burnetii and Chlamydia trachomatis, C. burnetii (zoonotic pathogen). The title of his talk is "Nutritional and physicochemical requirements for Chlamydia and
Coxiella infectivity and replication."
Click here for seminar information.
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| Dec 4 | CLaN Seminar - Come watch a film!
Come enjoy the film, "Taking the Long View: The life of Shiing-Shen Chern."
This is a biographical documentary that examines the life of Shiing-Shen Chern, a remarkable mathematician whose formidable mathematical contributions were matched by an approach and vision that helped build bridges between China and the West. The documentary follows Shiing-Shen Chern through many of the most dramatic events of the 20th century, portraying a man who dedicated his life to pure mathematics with the style of a classical Chinese sage.
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Dec 2 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter
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| Dec 1 | AMS Graduate Student Chapter
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| Nov 30 | Time to start looking for an Internship!Are you a sophomore or junior? Now is the time to begin looking for an internship! An internship provides professional experience and can often lead to a permanent job. Click here for internship help. |
| Nov 29 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Yufeng Cao
Title:: Maximum flow algorithm for total variation minimization |
| Nov 29 | New! Five Hacker Undergraduate Research
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| Nov 28 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Nikos Voulgarakis
Dr. Nikos Voulgarakis will speak on, "Mathematical modeling of DNA allostery." Click here for seminar information.
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| Nov 27 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Rachel Perrier
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 21 | Using pure and applied mathematics
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| Nov 15 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Dr. Matt Duez
Title:: The Leibniz-Clarke debate revisited |
| Nov 15 |
Colloquium: Dr. Yifei LouAbout Dr. Yifei Lou
Please join us for a colloquium at 4:10pm in Webster 11 with Dr. Yifei Lou from the University of Texas Dallas who will give a talk on, ""Minimizing the Difference of L1 and L2 norms with Applications." Prior to the colloqium there will be a cookie and tea reception at 3:30pm in the Hacker Lounge, Neill 216, and all are welcome. For an abstract of the talk please click here.
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| Nov 14 | Math Bio Seminar - Andreas Vasdekis
Dr. Andreas Vasdekis from the Department of Physics at the University of Idaho will talk about his recent work on lipid metabolism. The title of the talk will be, "A Random Walk Through Metabolism, as a Matter of Fat." Click here for seminar information.
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| Nov 13 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Megan Wendler
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 9 | Colloquium:Dr. Matthew Hudelson
Abstract:
We examine some results that center around prime divisors of binomial coefficients, leading off with Lucas’ theorem—a result that greatly facilitates computing (𝑛/k) modulo p. This result has a striking visual connection with the Sierpinski triangle when p=2. As a follow up from Lucas’ theorem, we will examine various quick results concerning what prime powers pk divide binomial coefficients. The second result we will examine is Bertrand’s postulate: For any integer n ≥ 1, there is always a prime number in [n, 2n]. We will present a version of Erdős’ proof of Bertrand’s postulate that uses remarkably crude estimates concerning primes that divide the central binomial coefficient (2𝑛/𝑛). Refreshments served during the event!
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| Nov 8 | WSU Analysis Seminar:Joseph H. Nakao
Abstract:
Water-wave equations are highly nonlinear in nature and often
require methods that produce approximate solutions, such as asymptotic
expansions. Given a non-constant bathymetry, I attempt to reconstruct the
surface elevation and pressure. I aim to numerically solve for an exact
solution to a new nonlocal formulation of the water-wave equation derived
by way of Ablowitz, Fokas and Musslimani. Then, I will compare the exact
solution to other approximate solutions, both classical and modern.
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| Nov 7 | Math Bio Seminar - Adnan Morshed
Adnan Morshed from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering will talk about his recent work on tumor microenvironment. The title of the talk will be, "Numerical Study of TGFβ-Smad Dependent Activation of Tumor
Microenvironment using Interface Resolved Hybrid Technique." Click here for seminar information.
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| Nov 6 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Enzo Wendler
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 2 & 3 | Inland Northwest
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| Nov 1 | WSU Analysis Seminar:Adebowale Sijuwade
Abstract:
We will motivate the idea of a fractional integral operator by
studying its interaction with the Laplacian and an application to PDEs. By
studying its boundedness, we will establish a Trudinger-type inequality.
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| Oct 30 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Jordan Miller
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Oct 25 | WSU Analysis Seminar:Enrique Alvarado
Abstract:
If we are trying to move a pile of sand to a hole, what are
some optimal ways in which we can do this? This question leads us to the
study of optimal transportation, and in this talk, will take us to some of
the Riemannian Geometric structures of Wasserstein Spaces.
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| Oct 24 | Math Bio Seminar - Matthew Mietchen
The title of the talk will be, "Ending the Epidemic: HIV Surveillance Data-to-Care Methods & Other Interesting Tools." Click here for seminar information.
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| Oct 23 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Jillian Glassett
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Oct 18 | WSU Analysis Seminar:Laramie Paxton
Title: Rademacher Functions and L^p Norms |
| Oct 17 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Hongbo Dong
The title of the talk will be, "Adaptive Clinical Trial Design, Huge-scale Linear Programs and
Non-smooth Optimization" Click here for seminar information.
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| Oct 16 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Dr. Bill Webb
The CLaN seminar meets at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Oct 12 |
The Calvin and Jean Long Distinguished
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| Oct 10 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Elissa Schwartz
This week’s Mathematical Biology seminar will be presented by Dr. Elissa Schwartz and the title of her talk will be, "The Leaky Pipeline for Women in STEM: Global Challenges."
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| Oct 9 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Matthew Jobrack
"Topics From the MSRI Summer School on Automorphic Forms and the Langlands Program."
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| Oct 5 |
Colloquium: Alina Bucur (UC San Diego)
Alina Bucur, from UC San Diego, will present a colloquium on "Arithmetic statistics: points on curves over finite fields." Abstract: A curve is a one dimensional space cut out by polynomial equations. In particular, one can consider curves over finite fields, which means the polynomial equations should have coefficients in some finite field and that points on the curve are given by values of the variables in the finite field that satisfy the given polynomials. A basic question is how many points such a curve has, and fora family of curves one can study the distribution of this statistic. We will give concrete examples of families in which this distribution is known or predicted, and give a sense of the different kinds of mathematics that are used to study different families. The colloquim will meet in Neill 5W from 4:10pm to 5:00pm. |
| Oct 4 | WSU Analysis Seminar: Dr. Hong-Ming Yin
The seminar title is, "Optimal Control Problems in Partial Differential Equations." |
| Oct 3 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Mark Schumaker
This week’s Mathematical Biology seminar will be presented by Dr. Mark Schumaker.
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| Oct 2 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Matthew Jobrack
"Topics From the MSRI Summer School on Automorphic Forms and the Langlands Program."
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| Sept 28 | Colloquium: Steven L. Tomsovic
Please join us for a colloquium with guest speaker Dr. Steven L. Tomsovic of the WSU Department of Physics and Astronomy. The title of the colloquium is, "Origins and Contemporary Research Avenues." |
| Sept 26 | Math Bio Seminar - Dr. Svetlana Lockweed
This week’s Mathematical Biology seminar will be presented by Dr. Svetlana Lockwood. She will discuss, "Diffusion of Antimicrobial Resistance."
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| Sept 25 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Matthew Jobrack
"Topics From the MSRI Summer School on Automorphic Forms and the Langlands Program."
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| Sept 22 | Having a heart for others, math senior
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| Sept 20 | Introducing a new book by Dr. Alex Khapalov
Mobile point sensors and actuators in the controllability theory of partial differential equations, published by Springer.
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| Sept 20 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Speakers: Dr. Kevin Vixie
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| Sept 19 | Math Bio Seminar - Elissa Schwartz
This week’s Mathematical Biology seminar will be presented by Dr. Elissa Schwartz. She will discuss her recent work on the equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) infection.
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| Sept 18 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Matthew Jobrack
"Topics From the MSRI Summer School on Automorphic Forms and the Langlands Program."
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| Sept 12 | Math Bio Seminar - Xiongzhi Chen
This week’s Mathematical Biology seminar will be presented by Dr. Xiongzhi Chen. The title of his talk will be, "The Functional False Discovery Rate with Applications in Genomics."
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| Sept 11 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: David WatkinsThe title of David Watkins talk is, "Core-chasing algorithms for the eigenvalue problem." The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Sept 6 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Speaker: Yunfeng Hu
Yunfeng Hu will speak on, "Concentration of Measure" |
| Sept 5 | Math Bio Seminar - Allison Fisher and Jordan Culp
This week’s Mathematical Biology seminar will be presented by Allison Fisher and Jordan Culp. Allison and Jordan will give us a mathematical introduction to neuroscience. You really don’t want to miss it if you are interested in computational neuroscience.
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| Aug 30 | Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta - Boeing Distinguished Professor Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta, has been selected as a College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Boeing Science/Math Education Distinguished Professor for scholarly, creative and instructional activity. CAS Faculty of Distinction. |
| Aug 30 | Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta - CoPI on new NIH Grant Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta, is CoPI on a new NIH multidisciplinary team grant with members from the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Veterinary Medicine. The $703,103 grant is titled, "3D Printed Surface Modified Porous Metal Coatings for Load-bearing Implants," and will be funded for three years. Read more about this new NIH grant. |
| Aug 30 | WSU Analysis Seminar - Speaker: Henry Riely Henry Riely will speak on, "The Bellman function technique for proving sharp martingale inequalities" Abstract: "We will introduce the so-called Bellman function, which can be used to establish sharp martingale inequalities. To illustrate, we will sketch a proof due to Donald Burkholder which uses this function to show that the ±1 transform of a martingale is L^p bounded. Don't worry if you are unfamiliar with probability theory. I will begin with a 10 minute crash course on probability ending with the definition of a martingale. Also, there will be pictures, intuition, examples, and all that good stuff." The WSU Analysis Seminar will meet at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Aug 29 | Math Bio Seminar - Speaker: Dr. Sergey Lapin Dr. Sergey Lapin will speak on the "Mathematical Modeling of the Human Eye." The Math Bio Seminar will meet at 4:10pm in Webster B8. |
| Aug 29 | Math Ed SeminarThe Mathematics Education Seminar will meet on Tuesdays from 4:10pm to 5:00pm in Cleveland 247 beginning August 29, 2017. The first meeting will be organizational. |
| Aug 28 | CLaN Seminar - Speaker: Jakob Streipel Jakob Streipel will speak on, "On Numbers... A Brief Exploration of the Surreal Numbers." Abstract: "In this talk we will present a way to construct numbers using nothing but the empty set. This construction, due to Conway in 1976, gives rise to the so-called surreal numbers, which we will see is a totally ordered field containing not only the real numbers, but also numbers infinitely large and infinitesimally small!" The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Aug 23 | WSU Analysis SeminarThe WSU Analysis Seminar will meet on Wednesdays from 4:10pm to 5:00pm in Neill 5W beginning August 23, 2017. The first meeting will be organizational. |
| Aug 22 | Mathematical Biology SeminarThe The Mathematical Biology Seminar will meet on Tuesdays from 4:10pm to 5:00pm in Webster B8 beginning August 22, 2017. The first meeting will be organizational. |
| Aug 21 | CLaN SeminarThe The CLaN Seminar will meet on Mondays from 4:10pm to 5:00pm in Neill 5W. An organizational meeting will be held today in Neill 5W at 4:10pm for all interested individuals. Contact scliu@math.wsu.edu if you have questions. |
| Aug 14 | Bala Krishnamoorthy - CoPI on new NSF Grant
Bala Krishnamoorthy, WSU Vancouver, is a CoPI on a new NSF multidisciplinary team grant that will focus on improving the understanding of the interaction between genes and the environment to produce improved corn crops.
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| May 10 | Mark Lesperance receives
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| May 6 | 2017 Spring Commencement Photos Spring Commencement for the College of Arts and Sciences, took place at 11:30am on May 6, 2017. For commencement photos please click here. |
| May 5 | Annalise Miller - 2017 Outstanding Senior Annalise Miller has been selected as the 2017 Outstanding Senior in Mathematics and Statistics. She will be recognized during the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Seniors ceremony on May 5, 2017 at 2:00pm in the Jones Theater of Daggy Hall. Read more about Annalise Miller. |
| May 4 | Eric Foley - Tutor of the Semester Eric Foley has been selected as "Tutor of the Semester" by the MLC staff. He has worked at the MLC for 4 semester, both as a tutor and at the front desk. He is patient with students, has a positive attitude, has helped cover shifts for others, has never been late and has never missed a shift without first notifying the MLC staff. Students leave excellent feedback about Eric and one student said, "he saved my life!" Eric has been accepted into the department's graduate program for fall. |
| May 3 | 2017 End-of-year barbecue photos The 2017 end-of-year barbecue for students, faculty and staff, was held on May 3rd during the lunch hour outside of Neill Hall. During the barbecue David Watkins was recognized for his many years of service to WSU, as he begins his retirement. Click here for photos. |
| April 27 | 2017 Scholarship and Awards Ceremony
Mark your calendar! The 2017 Scholarship and Awards Ceremony will be held on April 27th from 3:30pm - 5:00pm. Please join us in recognizing the outstanding academic achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students. Refreshments will be served.
Click here to see photos from the ceremony. |
| April 22-23 |
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
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| April 23 |
Analysis+Data Events
For informaton about the Analysis + Data Community please click here. |
| April 22 |
PreToM Math Fair in the MLC
The WSU PreToM Club invites you to attend a Math Fair on April 22nd, in the MLC from 10:30am - noon. Students from Math 398 - Mathematical Snapshots, will be presenting the many uses of applications or theories in mathematics founded on the history of math. There will be poster presentations and manipulatives to illustrate the mathematics involved. All middle school to early college students are welcome and encouraged to attend. Click here for a flier.
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| April 21 |
2017 Data Science Day
Attend the April 21st 2017 Data Science Day in the WSU CUB Junior Ballroom and join participants from companies, universities and government labs for an entire day of short talks and workshops devoted to challenging data analysis problems. Make great connections for jobs, internships, and collaborations! Register at http://datascienceday2017.eventbrite.com. Sponsored by the Analysis+Data Community.
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| April 19 | The Thirty-Sixth Annual T.G. Ostrom Lecture"Everything you always wanted
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| April 14 | HURRY! Nominate a MS Student for a New
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| April 12 |
Texas Instrument Workshop
Come to the Texas Instrument Workshop and explore math concepts using the TI-Nspire! This calculator can interface with a teacher's computer in the classroom. The teacher can share files and view student work. Calculators will be on loan during the workshop. Presented by the Pre-service Teachers of Mathematics (PreToM) Club. The workshop will be held in Cleveland Hall room 234 from 4:30 - 6:30pm.
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| April 12 |
Analysis Seminar: "From
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| April 11 |
Math Bio Seminar: "Developing
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| Apr 10 |
CLaN Seminar: Jillian Glassett
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Jillian Glassett is the seminar speaker. |
| April 8 | 4th Annual Cascade RAIN MeetingThe 4th RAIN meeting will be held in Vancouver, Canada (see https://sites.google.com/site/cascaderain2017/). RAIN stands for Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical (math). It's a welcoming and low-stress one day meeting. Every speaker (who volunteers to present their work) will have 8-10 minutes to present, so famous senior researchers and first years students have the same amount of time! Graduate students may apply for limited travel funding (provided by SIAM and PIMS). You should be a SIAM member to be considered and if you aren't, it's easy and free to join. If you are a graduate student interested in applying for funding, send your resume to Prof. Nilima Nigam (nilima.nigam@gmail.com), and also ask your advisor to send a brief letter of recommendation. |
| April 5 | Securing the Internet through Cryptography -
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| April 5 |
Analysis Seminar: "Medical
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| Apr 4 |
Math Bio Seminar: "A Comparison of
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| Apr 3 |
CLaN Seminar: Jordan Miller
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Jordan Miller is the seminar speaker. |
| Mar 31 |
SURCA and Showcase 2017 |
| Mar 29 |
Analysis Seminar: "Riesz Potentials and
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| Mar 28 |
Math Bio Seminar: "Wildlife Disease
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| Mar 27 |
Undergraduate Summer Mini-grant
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| Mar 27 |
Colloquium: "Bailey's Lemma"
Postdoctoral Scholar Chris Jennings-Shaffer of Oregon State University will give a colloquium talk on Monday, March 27, 2017.
Please join us for refreshments at 3:30pm with Dr. Jennings-Shaffer, in the Hacker Lounge located in Neill 216. The colloquium talk will begin at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Mar 22 |
Analysis Seminar: "Fourier expansion of
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| Mar 21 |
Math Bio Seminar: "Studying Hypoxia
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| Mar 20 |
CLaN Seminar: Matthew Jobrack
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Matthew Jobrack is the seminar speaker. |
| Mar 11 |
 Pi Day Celebration!
Who doesn't love Pi (3.14159....)?
The annual Pi Day Celebration will be held at 8:00pm on Saturday, March 11th, at 210 NW Olsen, Pullman, WA, the home of department chairman, Dr. Charles Moore. There will be pizza, soda, and games! Feel free to bring a favorite pie to share with others, or additional snacks and beverages. Remember to sign up in the math department's main office. See you there!
Ask Dr. Universe about Pi |
| Mar 10 |
Don't miss this!
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| Mar 9 |
Colloquium: "Cubature, Approximation,
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| Mar 8 |
Analysis Seminar: "Constant Mean Curvature
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| Mar 7 |
Math Bio Seminar: "Modeling the
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| Mar 6 |
A mathematician, a biologist, and
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| Mar 6 |
CLaN Seminar: Yueqiao Zhang
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Yueqiao Zhang is the seminar speaker. |
| Mar 1 |
Analysis Seminar: "Different Notions of Summability
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| Mar 1 |
Mathematics and Securing the Internet
Nathan Hamlin, Director of the Math Learning Center (MLC), explains the need for a higher standard of encryption on the Internet, and has a solution for it. Click here for more information.
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| Feb 28 | Math Bio Seminar:
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| Feb 27 |
CLaN Seminar: David Watkins
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Dr. David Watkins is the seminar speaker. |
| Feb 24 |
Elissa Schwartz receives an International
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| Feb 23 |
Register now for the Poster Competition!(registration is due by 2/28/17)
The AMS Student Chapter would like to encourage students to submit a poster for the Student and Early Career Poster Session that will be held on April 23, 2017 during the AMS Sectional Meeting on the WSU Pullman campus. Hurry, because the registration deadline is February 28. For more information about the poster competition please click here
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| Feb 22 |
Analysis Seminar:
Introduction to
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| Feb 15 |
Analysis Seminar:
Bring an interesting
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| Feb 14 | Math Ed Seminar: Spencer Payton
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| Feb 14 | Math Bio Seminar:
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| Feb 13 |
CLaN Seminar: Sheng-Chi Liu, speaker
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Dr. Sheng-Chi Liu is the seminar speaker. |
| Feb 9 |
Analysis Seminar:
"When linear
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| Feb 8 |
Colloquium:
"Nonparametric Cross-Dimensional
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| Feb 6 |
Colloquium:
"Distributed Inference
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| Feb 6 |
CLaN Seminar: Matt Hudelson, speaker
The CLaN seminar will meet at 4:10pm in 5W. Dr. Matt Hudelson is the seminar speaker. |
| Feb 3 |
Colloquium:
"Promoting Similarity of
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| Feb 1 | Analysis Seminar:
"Small unions with
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| Feb 1 |
Colloquium:
"Copula Regression
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| Jan 30 |
Colloquium:
"Estimation and Inference
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| Jan 25 | Analysis Seminar:
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| Jan 24 | Math Bio Seminar:
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| Jan 23 | Two WSU student teams compete in grueling 100-hour International Math Modeling Competition
Two teams of three students each, recently competed in a 100-hour world-wide international math modeling competition. Advocate and coach, Dr. Lynn Schreyer said, "It's exciting to see what the students do and a wonderful experience for them, as well as for me." |
| Jan 23 |
Colloquium: "Stochastic Second Order
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| Jan 19 |
Allison Dorko - Research Talk
Allison Dorko will give a research talk in the EdAd building in room 116, from 4:10pm - 5:00pm. Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm in the same room.
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| Jan 17 |
Math Bio Seminar-Organizational Meeting
A Math Bio Seminar organizational meeting will take place at 4:10pm in WEBS B08.
Interested students may register for Math 591 for one credit. A course grade will be assessed through regular participation in the seminar.
If you would like to give a talk on research, or on a topic of interest, please check the schedule in the link above and let Robert Dillon (dillon@math.wsu.edu) or Xueying (Snow) Wang (xueying@math.wsu.edu) know.
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| Jan 11 |
Analysis Seminar-Organizational Meeting
Organizational meeting: all students who are signed up
for credit must attend -- anyone else interested in giving
a talk should also attend.
4:10pm - 5:00pm in Neill 5W.
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| Jan 10 |
William Hall - Research Talk
William Hall will give a research talk in the EdAd building in room 116, from 4:10pm-5:00pm. Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm in the same room.
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| Dec 16 | Department Holiday Party Photos
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| Dec 10 | Congratulations Graduates!
Commencement was held at Beasley Coliseum the morning of December 10, 2016. Congratulations to all graduating seniors. Click here to see photos.
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| Dec 6 | APPLY NOW!The CAS Scholarship Application is Now Open
The application deadline for a College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) scholarship is January 13, 2017.
Don't miss this opportunity! Apply Now! |
| Nov 18 | Sean Kallaher - MLC Tutor of the Month
Sean Kallaher has been selected as the Math Learning Center's November Tutor of the Month. According to the MLC, "Sean is very punctual and reliable, as well as helpful and enthusiastic when working with students!" As a thank you, he receives a $10 gift certificate from the Bookie. Sean is the grandson of former department chairman, Mike Kallaher.
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| Nov 9 | Inland Northwest Mathematics Experience
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| Nov 8 | Visit from Linda Bentley
Former graduate coordinator, Linda Bentley, stopped by the department today to show off her beautiful new great-grandson and tell everyone hello.
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| Nov 5 | Dad's Weekend Bake Sale
Stop by Webster Hall to support the WSU Physics Club and WSU Math Club in the Dad's Weekend Pumpkin Drop and Bake Sale on Saturday from 9:00am - 11:00am.
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| Nov 3 | PreToM Cake Pop Sale!
The Pre-Service Teachers of Mathematics (PreToM) Club, will be selling cake pops from 9:00a.m. to noon, in the CUB for $2.00 each on Thursday, November 3rd. Come support their club as they raise money to help fund several events such as, "Paper Tigers" and Math Circles. Can't make it to the CUB? Send an email to maxxwaring@hotmail.com specifying how many you would like and be sure to include an address. PreToM will DELIVER!
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| Oct 21 | Register for INME by October 21st!
Northwest high school and middle schools must register for INME by
October 21st. The Inland Northwest Math Experience (INME) is a day of
cooperative mathematics activities for middle school and high school
students on the WSU Pullman campus. It is held each November; one day for
middle school students (11/3/16) and another day for high school students (11/4/16). For
more information please visit Dr. Kim Vincent's homepage.
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| Oct 15-16 | WSU Team Fibonacci Wins
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| Oct 15 | Honoring Sandy Cooper
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| Oct 7 | Farewell Reception for
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| Sept 28 | Colloquium: "Monotone numerical methods
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| Sept 27 | Seminar: "Using Mapping Diagrams to
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| Sept 22 | Colloquium: "The Role of Philosophy in
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| Aug 25 | Colloquium: "A Corporative Bond Model
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| Aug 25 | AMS Student Chapter - SocialEvent Flier
All graduate students are invited to the first AMS Student Chapter social at 4:00pm in the Hacker Lounge (Neill 216). Come meet new friends, learn about the student chapter, and have some free pizza and drinks!
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| Aug 22 | Welcome back Cougs!
First day of fall semester classes.
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| Jul 6 | Graduate student Mohammed Kaabar
Graduate student Mohammed Kaabar has completed his master's degree in mathematics and is shown here with his advisor Dr. Mark Schumaker. Congratulations Mohammed!
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| Jun 13 | Students - sign up now for Calculated Success!
Would you like to brush up on your math skills, improve your ALEKS test score, or potentially place into a higher math class this fall? Sign up for Calculated Success! Register by July 20th. For more information about Calculated Success! please cplease lick here.
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| June 7 | Graduate Student Cameron
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| May 26 | Professor Emeritus, David Wollkind, presents
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| May 26 | American Mathematical
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| May 19 | Graduate student Peter Klosterman
Graduate student Peter Klosterman has accepted an assistant professor position with the Mathematics Department at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor beginning this fall. It's located in Belton, Texas, about one hour north of Austin. He and his wife Esther will move to Texas this summer with baby Claire. Congratulations Dr. Klosterman!
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| May 7 | Spring Commencement Photos
The 2016 commencement ceremony photos are here! Click here for 2018 commencement ceremony photos. Congratulations to all graduating students!
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| May 5 | Graduate student Thomas Cameron
Graduate student Thomas Cameron has accepted a visiting assistant professorship with the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. He will teach his last WSU course this summer before heading to Caldwell in June with his wife and their young son. Congratulations Dr. Cameron!
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| May 4 | End-of-the-year Barbecue Photos
The department held its annual end-of-the-year barbecue outside of Neill Hall on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Faculty, staff and students enjoyed barbecued hamburgers, hotdogs and various assorted potluck dishes. A special thanks to the social committee for all of their hard work.
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| May 2 | WSU alumna and former instructor
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| Apr 29 | Dr. David Wollkind's Retirement Party Photos |
| Apr 28 | Colloquium: "Fixed Points and Integral Equations"
Presented by Dr. T.A. Burton, Emeritus Professor of Southern Illinois University. Dr. Burton is also a 1964 WSU PhD graduate in mathematics. His advisor was Dr. Donald Bushaw, former WSU Mathematics Department Chair and Vice Provost for Instruction.
Refreshments served at 3:30pm in Neill 216, followed by the colloquium at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Abstract |
| Apr 28 | 2016 Scholarship Recipients |
| Apr 28 | WSU Vancouver offering summer math courses
Plan to be in the Portland/Vancouver area this summer, and want to take a Math class (or two)? Take them on the beautiful WSU Vancouver campus! The classes are already in the WSU system, so you won't have to worry about transferring them. See http://schedules.wsu.edu/list/Vancouver/20162/Math for a listing of all classes. Contact WSU Vancouver advisor Emily Earhart at eearhart@wsu.edu, or program leader Dr. Bala Krishnamoorthy at kbala@wsu.edu.
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| Apr 27 | Greetings from Rachael Lund in East Lansing, MI!
Former math instructor Rachael Lund has sent an updated photo of daughter Sophie. Rachael says, "Sophie is very mobile now. She has no fear. We have to watch her very carefully. She will jump off of decks, beds, etc., ...falling backwards and laugh. Good thing we have always been paying attention."
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| Apr 27 | Grace (Eleanor) Jones receives summer minigrant
Grace Jones has received a College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Summer Minigrant for 2016, and will present her research at next year's SURCA (Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creatvie Activities). Her advisor is Dr. Sergey Lapin.
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| Apr 27 | Seminar: "A Rectifiable Reifenberg Theorem"
Presented by Dr. Sean McCurdy, UW-Seattle, in Neill Hall 5W at 4:10pm.
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| Apr 26 | Seminar: "SEM-based electron tomography
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| Apr 26 | PreToM presented with charter
The WSU Pre-service Teachers of Mathematics (PreToM) Club, was presented its official charter during the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in San Francisco on April 15th, 2016. Pictured here are Diane Briars, President of NCTM, Victoria Bay (WSU NCTM student representative for 2015-2016), and Yesenia Contreras (WSU NCTM student representative for 2016-2017).
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| Apr 25 | Dr. Sergey Lapin has received the 2016
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| Apr 22 | Dr. David Wollkind retires after 45 years at WSU After 45 years of service to the university (1970-2015) Dr. David Wollkind has retired from WSU. Please join us on Friday, April 22nd, at the Hilltop Restaurant for a no-host social hour beginning at 4:00pm, followed by a presentation at 5:30pm. A dinner will follow at 6:00pm. If you would like to join the dinner, please RSVP to jacroux@wsu.edu. |
| Apr 21 | Scholarship Awards Ceremony
Join us on Thursday, April 21st, in Neill 5W for the 2016 Scholarship Awards Ceremony beginning at 3:30pm. Freshments will be served!
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| Apr 21 | Congratulations to Wendy Skulpakdee
Graduate student Wendy Skulpakdee has successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Her committee members are: Charles Moore, and Haijun Li, and Hongming Yin (committee chair).
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| Apr 20 | MLC Tutor of the Month - Huong Doan The second individual to receive a Math Learning Center (MLC) "Tutor of the Month" award is Huong Doan, who has worked in the MLC for 4 semesters. MLC Director Nathan Hamlin says, "Huong works very patiently with the students she tutors and has never been late or missed a shift. Once, she was the only tutor working during a late shift when other graduate student tutors left to proctor exams and she did an excellent job. Students have come to the MLC to look for help specifically from Huong." |
| Apr 20 | Seminar: "Random Walks and Martingales" Presented by Henry Riely 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 19 | Seminar: "Mathematically Modeling the Dynamics
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| Apr 19 | Jillian Morrison - recipient of a 2016
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| Apr 19 | Elissa Schwartz receives research travel award
Elissa Schwartz is one of seven faculty members to receive a Fourth Annual International Research Travel Award (IRTA) from WSU. Dr. Schwartz will travel to India to work with collaborator Dr. Seema Nanda on modeling bacteriophage infection dynamics. Read more about the travel award.
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| Apr 18 | Congratulations to Lewa Alzaleq
Graduate student Lewa Alzaleq has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. His committee members are: V.S. (Mano) Manoranjan (Chair), Xueying Wang, and Michael Tsatsomeros.
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| Apr 17 | Paper Tigers
PreToM Club will be showing, "Paper Tigers," a documentary filmed in Walla Walla, Washington that takes an intimate look at the devastating and troublesome lives of teens struggling through Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), and what one high school in Walla Walla is doing to make a difference. An inspiring film every educator will want to see on
Sunday, April 17th, at 4:00pm in CUE 203. A $5 donation is suggested but not necessary.
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| Apr 14 | Congratulations graduate students
Graduate students' Fozia Arishi, Carol Phillips, Lilli Zhou, and Mohammed Kaabar have recently passed their masters defense.
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| Apr 13 | Seminar: "L^ TV for Image Decomposition"Presented by Yufeng Cao 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 12 | Stan Swierczek
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| Apr 9 | Regional Applied
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| Apr 6 | Seminar: "Boolean Gene Expression Networks" Presented by Dr. Alex Panchenko 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 5 | Seminar: "On Memory Capacity of
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| Mar 31 | Greetings from former grad student Casey Bylund
Former graduate student Casey Bylund (advisor Dr. Alex Panchenko) sends her greetings from Ukiah, California. Casey is a full-time tenure-track faculty member at Mendocino College where she has taught calculus, algebra, and precalculus, and is faculty advisor to the Capoeira Club. In June she will marry her fiance Hayden, who is going back to school in engineering, and they are getting ready to purchase their first home. She says she misses the entire department and hopes everyone is doing well! |
| Mar 30 | Congratulations Peter Klosterman
Graduate student Peter Klosterman has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, “Identification and establishment of social and sociomathematical norms associated with mathematically productive discourse”. His committee members are: Libby Knott - chair, Kimberly Vincent, Rob Ely and Shiv Karunakaran. |
| Mar 30 | Seminar: "BMO, commutators and weights"Presented by Dr. Arpad Benyi, WWU - Bellingham4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Mar 29 | Seminar: "Mathematical Modeling for
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| Mar 28 | Krispie Kreme Donuts Today!Don't miss out! PreToM Club will be selling Krispie Kreme donuts from 10-2 in the CUB today to raise money for an educational film; Paper Tigers. |
| Mar 28 | 2016 Faculty PromotionsFour faculty members have received promotions in 2016. Read more about these faculty member promotions. |
| Mar 25 | New York Times article features work of
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| Mar 25 | Sergey Lapin appointed as an
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| Mar 24 | Thirty-Fifth Annual T.G. Ostrom Colloquium"Mathematical understanding for secondary
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| Mar 23 | Thirty-Fifth Annual T.G. Ostrom Lecture"What does it really mean to understand
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| Mar 23 | Seminar: "On Digraphs, Formal Transition
Presented by Predrag Tosic |
| Mar 22 | WSU mathematicians design lottery
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| Mar 22 | Seminar: "Coarse-grained simulations of
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| Mar 20 | Amy Streifel and Sharif Ibrahim marry Former Ph.D. student, Sharif Ibrahim, and Amy Streifel (Ph.D. in progress) were married on March 20, 2016. Sharif is an engineer with Intel. Congratulations! |
| Mar 14 | "Why is Pi 3.1415...? What if it was just 3?" |
| Mar 10 | Distinguished Speakers Series:"Learning, Mining and Graphs" Invited speaker: Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad 7:00pm Goertzen Communication Addition 21 |
| Mar 10 | Seminar: "Of Mites and Models"Presented by Dr. David Wollkind at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Mar 9 | Gabriela Sabalsa - MLC Tutor of the Month
MLC Tutor of the Month is Gariela Sabalsa. Gabriela was selected by MLC staff as the first individual to receive this award. Gabriela has a very positive attitude, is kind to the students she tutors, and has been known to stay beyond the time required of her to help students. On more than one occasion, students have remarked to MLC staff what a wonderful help she is to them.
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| Mar 7-11 | Pi(e) a Professor Week!
It's that time of year again! Math Club is hosting the "Pi(e) a Professor" event in honor of Pi Day (and also to raise club funds) the week of March 7-11. Dean Johnson, Mindy Morgan and Kim Vincent will be pied. See our Facebook page for photos.
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| Mar 2 | Seminar: "A probalistic characterization
Presented by Frank Gao. |
| Feb 24 | Seminar: "Metric Entropy and
This will be a presentation by James |
| Feb 23 | Seminar: "Mathematical Modeling and
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Welcome Sotiris Xantheas
The department is pleased to announce that Sotiris Xantheas has been hired as an adjunct faculty member.
He was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and obtained a Diploma in
Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Athens and a PhD
in Chemistry from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. After a two year
post-doctoral fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) he became a staff member and is now a
Laboratory Fellow. His research is concerned with the mathematical
modeling of the interaction between atoms, molecules and ions using
quantum mechanical principles. He is particularly interested in the
properties of hydrogen bonds, the interactions responsible for holding
together water molecules in clusters, liquid water and ice. He uses
supercomputers to evaluate properties of these model systems to ultimately
understand the macroscopic properties of water and aqueous solutions.
Outside of work, Sotiris enjoys playing soccer, volleyball and tennis. He is
looking forward to work with WSU students and faculty on joint projects.
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Welcome Jingyang Zhang
The department is pleased to announce that Jingyang Zhang has been hired as an adjunct faculty member.
Born and raised in China, Jingyang obtained her BS in applied mathematics from Peking University, China. She then obtained a PhD in biostatistics at the University of Iowa, and moved to Seattle in 2012 for post doc training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where she currently holds a position as a faculty biostatistician. Her research focuses on statistical modeling with various types of applications in medical research, especially the HIV prevention clinical trials. She works closely with epidemiologists and clinicians on large scale clinical trials. Outside of work, Jingyang enjoys her athletic lifestyle very much. She is an avid runner and an enthusiastic outdoor explorer. As an adjunct faculty member, she eagerly looks forward to working with WSU students.
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Welcome Dr. Lynn Schreyer
The department is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Lynn Schreyer.
Lynn came to us in January from the University of Colorado Denver
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and is delighted
to become a Cougar! She has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering,
an MS and PhD in Math, and did a post doc in Agronomy. Consistent
with her education, her research is interdisciplinary - in fact
since arriving, WSU has provided the environment for her to pick
up work on 3 new projects: modeling gels, concrete, and clays.
Her primary research passion is modeling porous materials
(think of a solid with pores), and especially porous materials
that swell (e.g. gels, concrete, and clays). She uses continuum
mechanics and upscaling techniques to formulate the system of
partial differential equations, analyzes the system, and
then numerically solves it to learn more about the physics.
WSU was also kind enough to hire her husband so that they
can now live in the same state. Don't be surprised to find
her as a spectator at local WSU track events since she used to
run track and continues to love the sport.
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| Feb 17 | Seminar: "Approximation of integrals,
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| Feb 12 | CISER updateDr. Nairanjana Dasgupta and Dr. Marc Evans reportthat the WSU Faculty Senate has voted and CISER is now officially recognized as a Center. |
| Feb 11 | Colloquium: "Adventures in
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| Feb 10 | Seminar: "Regular sets, Cubical Covers
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| Feb 9 | Seminar: "Antibody kinetics of
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| Feb 9 | Math Club MeetingJoin the Math Club at 5:10pm in Neill Hallroom 216 (Hacker Lounge) for pizza and soda. Invited speaker is Predrag Tosic, EECS. |
| Feb 4 | Distinguished Speakers Series"Sparse Matrices for High Performance GraphAnalytics"  Invited speaker: Dr. John R. Gilbert 12:00pm-1:00pm ETRL, Room 101 (map) |
| Feb 3 | Seminar: "Large Deviation Principle (LDP)
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| Feb 2 | Seminar: "Introduction to modeling of
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| Feb 1 | Math Circles Game Night - 5-7pm
Bring some junior high and high school students to MathCircles tonight from 5:00pm-7:00pm in Cleveland 221 for free math puzzle fun and pizza! |
| Jan 27 | "Undergrad summer research
$3,100 stipend, lodging, meals, |
| Jan 27 | Seminar: "Inverse Fractorization
Presented by Matt Challacombe |
| Jan 26 | Math Club MeetingJoin the Math Club tonight at 5:10pm in Neill Hallroom 216 (Hacker Lounge) for pizza, soda, and planning! |
| Jan 20 | Seminar: "On the Eigenvalues of
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| Jan 19 | Seminar: "Morphogenetic functions |
| Jan 19 | Cryptography, coding, cyber attacks
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| Jan 12 | Memorial Service for Dr. Ed Pate
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| Jan 1 | Graduate student Thomas Cameron
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| 2015 | |
| Dec 15 | Holiday Party PhotosClick here to view holiday party photos. |
| Dec 12 | Fall 2015 Commencement Photos
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| Dec 10 | Colloquium: "Big Data and The World
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| Dec 9 | Seminar: "Gap Distributions &
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| Dec 8 | Seminar: "Application of Topology
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| Dec 8 | Visiting Professor Returns
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| Dec 7 | Colloquium: "Control of Certain
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| Dec 3 | Colloquium: "Splittings of Matrices
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| Dec 2 | Seminar: "Differential Geometry
Presented by Enrique Alvarado |
| Dec 1 | Seminar: "Using Compartmental and Agent-based Modeling to Understand the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Outbreak in Pullman"
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| Nov 30 | Math Circles Game Night - 5-7pm in the MLC
Know some bored junior high or high school students? Get them excited about math! Bring them to MathCircles tonight from 5:00pm-7:00pm in the MLC (Cleveland 130) for free math puzzle fun and pizza! |
| Nov 19 | Who doesn't love a new baby?! Graduate student Benjamin Rapone and his wife Erin are the proud parents of new baby boy Monroe. Monroe came into the world on November 19th weighing 9 pounds 7 ounces, and is 21 inches long. |
| Nov 18 | Seminar: "Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces in Lorentz-Minowski space, Part I"Presented by Yunfeng Huat 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 17 | Honoring Nairanjana Dasgupta
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| Nov 17 | Seminar: "Statistical Analysis of Complex Data Objects"
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| Nov 16 | Seminar: "Convex Hulls of Matrices and Stability"
Presented by Patrick Torres |
| Nov 10 | Seminar: "Inferring the Cell Differentiation Trajectory from Single-Cell Gene Expression Data"
Presented by Dr. Audrey Fu, University of Idaho |
| Nov 9 | CLaN SeminarPresented by Jillian Glassettat 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 9 | Math Circles Game Night - 5-7pm in the MLC
Know some bored junior high or high school students? Bring them to MathCircles tonight from 5:00pm-7:00pm in the MLC (Cleveland 130) for free math puzzle fun and free pizza! |
| Nov 6 | 2015 Inland Northwest Math Experience (INME) Photos
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| Nov 5 | Colloquium: "A New Covariance Function
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| Nov 4 | PreToM has become a Student Affiliate of
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| Nov 4 | Seminar: "The Probability that Two Samples on a Convex Curve have Disjoint Convex Hulls" Presented by Yves Nievergelt, Eastern Washington University at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Nov 3 | Seminar: "Introduction to differential
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| Nov 2 | CLaN SeminarPresented by Jemin Shimat 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Oct 30 | Linda Bentley Retires after 25 Years of Service Graduate Program Coordinator, Linda Bentley, has retired after 25 years of service to Washington State University. See photos from Linda Bentley's reception. |
| Oct 27 | Seminar: "The Behavior of a Population
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| Oct 26 | Seminar: "Three Classical Problems on
Presented by Stefan Tohaneanu, University of Idaho, |
| Oct 22-24 | Cougs attend the NW Math Conference Dr. Kimberly Vincent with students at the NW Mathematics Conference in Whistler B.C. Click here to read more. |
| Oct 22 |
The Calvin and Jean Long ColloquiumPresented by Dr. John dePillis, guest lecturer, 4:10pm in Neill 5W.Please join us for refreshments at 3:30pm in Neill 216. |
| Oct 20 |
The Calvin and Jean Long Distinguished Lecture in Mathematics
Presented by Dr. John dePillis, guest lecturer, 7:00pm in Webster 17. A reception with refreshments will immediately follow in Neill 216. |
| Oct 14 | Seminar: "Local Set Approximation"Presented by Stephen Lewisat 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Oct 13 | Greetings from Rachael Lund in East Lansing, MI! Former math instructor Rachael Lund sends greetings to everyone in the Math Department! She and her husband Kasey have settled into a new home in East Lansing, Michigan with baby Sophie. Rachael is teaching Calc 1 and working for the Center for Instructional Mentoring (CIM) at Michigan State University, and Kasey is a post doc there working for the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab building a cryogenic gas stopper. Rachael says baby Sophie is now a "crawling machine." For photos of Sophie please click here. If you would like Rachael's email address please contact the office staff. |
| Oct 13 | Seminar: "Mathematical Modeling of sperm
Presented by Dr. Robert Dillon |
| Oct 12 | Colloquium: "From the Manhattan Project
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| Oct 12 | Talk: "Extending Pythagoras"Presented by Dr. Steven J. Miller of Williams College.1:10pm-2:00pm in WLSH 3. |
| Oct 8 | Lorenz (Larry) T. Biegler
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| Oct 8 | Colloquium: "Evaluating the Effectiveness in HIV Prevention Clinical Trials" Presented by Jingyang Zhang, PhD, of Fred Hutch, Seattle, Washington at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments at 3:30pm in Neill 216 (Hacker Lounge). Read abstract. |
| Oct 7 | Seminar: "A Problem of Kolmogorov"
Presented by Dr. Haijun Li, 4:10pm in Neill 5W.
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| Oct 6 | Seminar: "Improved Models of Equine Infectious Anemia"
Presented by Dr. Mark Schumaker, 4:10pm in Jackson Hall, Room 53.
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| Oct 5 | Seminar: "Eventually Cone Positive Semigroups of Linear Operators"
Presented by Michael Kasigwa at 4:10pm in Neill Hall 5W.
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| Sept 30 | Seminar: "Poincare's Inequality and Its
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| Sept 29 | Seminar: "An empirically based mathematical
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| Sept 28 | Seminar: "Constructive Proof of Hessenberg Form"
Presented by Thomas R. Cameron at 4:10pm in Neill Hall 5W.
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| Sept 25 | Math Circle Pre-Launch MeetingJoin an informational meeting with University of Idaho alumnusDr. Brandy Wiegers to learn about a new Math Circle Program at WSU.  3:30pm-5:00pm in the Math Learning Center (MLC), Cleveland 130. |
| Sept 23 | Seminar: "Ergodicity for the stochastic partial differential equations of fluid mechanics"Presented by Dr. Kazuo Yamazaki at 4:10pm in Neill Hall 5W. |
| Sept 22 | Seminar: "Directed evolution of phage lysins:
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| Sept 21 | Seminar: "Core-Chasing Algorithms for
Presented by Dr. David Watkins at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Sept 21 | Seminar: "Mathematical Methods in
Presented by Dr. David Koslicki, former WSU math student and now |
| Sept 17 | Colloquium: "Nearshore Sticky Waters"Presented by Dr. Juan M. Restrepo from the Mathematics Departmentof the University of Arizona, at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Dr. Restrepo's team is developing a mathematical model for the fate of oil spills in nearshore environments and will present an overview of the model. Refreshments at 3:30pm in the Hacker Lounge (Neill 216). |
| Sept 16 | Michael B. Wakin
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| Sept 15 | Seminar: "Laminar Development
Presented by Dr. Andrew Oster, Department of Mathematics, |
| Sept 14 | Kelly and Casey Stratton have a baby boy Former math graduate Kelly Stratton and her husband Casey (also a Coug) have had their first baby. Conor Stratton was born May 6, 2015 and weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. Congratulations Kelly and Casey! |
| Sept 14 | CLaN Seminar speaker: Nathan Hamlin4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Sept 9 | Seminar: "The Coarea Formula"Presented by Dr. Kevin Vixie, at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Sept 8 | Aren't babies wonderful?Graduate student Ian Lundholm and his wife have a new baby!Meet Gavin John Lundholm born on September 8, 2015. Baby Gavin weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. 
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| Sept 8 | Seminar: "Finding the Best Classification Rates for Arabic Sign Language Data using Data Analysis Methods"Presented by Mohammed Kaabar, at 4:10pm in Neill 5W.
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| Sept 3 | Colloquium: "The Modeling of Refugee Movement"Presented by, Dr. Lynn Schreyer (formerly Lynn Schreyer-Bennethum),at 4:10pm in Neill Hall 5W.
Please join us for refreshments with Dr. Schreyer at 3:30pm in Neill 216. |
| Sept 2 | Seminar: "Introducing the method of characteristics with the 1-D traffic equation"Presented by, Stan Swierczek, at 4:10pm in Neill Hall 5W.
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| Aug 28 | Register for INME
Northwest high school and middle schools must register for INME by October 20th. The Inland Northwest Math Experience (INME) is a day of cooperative mathematics activities for middle school and high school students on the WSU Pullman campus. It is held each November; one day for middle school students and another day for high school students. For more information please visit Dr. Kim Vincent's homepage. |
| July 30 | $1.8M to improve hip, knee replacements
Professor Nairanjana Dasgupta is a co-PI on an NIH $1.8 million grant to improve materials used in hip and knee replacements. For more information about this grant please click here. |
| July 13 | Study predicts bird fatalities
Using mathematics and statistics, assistant professor Leslie New |
| July 7 | Elissa Schwartz receives first annual award
Mathematics assistant professor Elissa Schwartz has received the first annual |
| June 15 | Department of Mathematics and StatisticsThe Board of Regents approved a departmental name change to Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the May 8, 2015 Board of Regents meeting. |
| June 10 | WSU Vancouver instructor Tom Gazzola
We are deeply saddened by the unexpected passing this afternoon of WSU Vancouver instructor Tom Gazzola. Last week, Tom sustained critical injuries after being struck by a vehicle while jogging.
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| May 15 | Assistant professor Elissa Schwartz,recently Presented a talk at the SIAM Dynamical Systems conference titled, "Modeling Equine Infectious Anemia Virus Infection: Virus Dynamics, Immune Control, and Escape." |
| May 15 | Emeritus professor Duane DeTemple's daughter, Dr. Jill DeTemple, has received the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award from Southern Methodist University For more information about Jill DeTemple please click here. |
| May 13 | Welcome new baby Andrew Liu!
Graduate students' Lili Zhou and Huinan Liu's first child, Andrew Liu, was born on May 13, 2015. Andrew weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. |
| May 9 | Spring Commencement 2015 - photos
Congratulations graduating seniors! To see the spring 2015 commencement photos please click here |
| May 7 | End-of-Year Barbecue 2015 - photos
To see photos from the 2015 end-of-year barbecue please click here |
| May 7 | Mathematics major Chris Marshall has received a $3,000 summer mini-grant from the College of Arts and Sciences Mathematics major Chris Marshall (right) with clinical associate professor Sergey Lapin. Chris has received a $3,000 mini-grant from the College of Arts and Sciences to fund research this summer on the, "Mathematical modeling of agricultural intensification impact on pest outbreaks and losses in crop yield." Dr. Lapin will supervise his research. |
| May 1 | David Wollkind has received the 2015 ASWSU Cougar Award. Professor David Wollkind is the recipient of the second annual ASWSU Cougar Award. This award is given on behalf of the Associated Students of Washington State University to recognize one individual from WSU who has made a postitive impact on the WSU-Pullman community. Read more about the award. |
| Apr 29 | Seminar: "Generalized Gradients in Nonsmooth Analysis"Presented by, Robert Mifflin, 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 28 | Seminar: "The Role of VIX in the Stock Market"Presented by, Rui Wang, 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 27 | Seminar: "Combinatorics of clans and geometry of B orbits on G/K,"Presented by, Alex Woo from the University of Idaho Mathematics Department, 4:10pm, Neill 5W. |
| Apr 27 | Seminar: "Mathematical Modeling of Integrin Dynamics in Cell Motility: From Stochasticity to Sensitivity"Presented by, Hannah Callender, 3:10pm via WHETS from WSU Vancouver in Jackson Hall Room 53.
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| Apr 24 | Jeanette Martin has received the 2015 Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching Senior math instructor Jeanette Martin is the recipient of this year's prestigious Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching. Jeanette uses innovative approaches to help students understand math concepts in classes that range from lower level to higher mathematics. Read more about this award and Jeanette Martin. |
| Apr 23 | 2015 Scholarship and Awards Ceremony Scholarships and awards were Presented to students on April 23rd in Neill 5W. Read more about the 2015 scholarship and award recipients. |
| Apr 22 | Seminar: "What About Median of Shapes?"Presented by, Yunfeng Hu, 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 21 | Seminar: "Identifying the Conditions under which Antibodies Protect Against Infection by Equine Infectious Anemia Virus,"Presented by, Elissa Schwartz, 4:15pm in Jackson Hall Room 53. |
| Apr 20 | Seminar: "Modularity of Abelian Surfaces,"Presented by, Jennifer Johnson-Leung from the University of Idaho Mathematics Department, 4:10pm, Neill 5W. |
| Apr 16 | Colloquium: "Three ways to study number-theoretic sums,"Presented by, Nigel J. E. Pitt (Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine), 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments at 3:30pm in Neill 216.
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| Apr 16 | Sergey Lapin served as an external examiner on an Honors thesis defense at Bates College in Lewiston, Main. He is shown here with the Honors student and other committee members.
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| Apr 15 | Seminar: "Microlocal analysis and x-ray computed tomography,"Presented by, Linh Nguyen, 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 13 | WSU Tri-Cities professor Nikolaos Voulgarakis' students win the "Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics and Information Sciences" category of SURCA 2015
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| Apr 13 | WSU Vancouver WHETS Seminar: "Finite element methods using discontinuous functions,"Presented by Jay Gopalakrishnan, 3:10-4:00pm, Jackson 53 (via AMS Videoconferencing).
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| Apr 9 | 75th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition ResultsTwo WSU mathematics students participate; Alden Bradford and Michael Newsham. Read more about the competition results.
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| Apr 8 | Seminar: "Nonlocal continuum models of particle systems,"Presented by Dr. Alex Panchenko. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Apr 6 | Sergey Lapin met with a delegation from the Shanghai Environmental Bureau and Shanghai Geotechnical Investigations & Design Institute Sergey Lapin gave a presentation on Mathematical Modeling in Environmental Sciences and the WSU Mathematics Department, to delegates from the Shanghai Environmental Bureau and Shanghai Geotechnical Investigations & Design Institutue in Puyallup, Washington. |
| Apr 1 | An analysis seminar given in a colloquium style titled, "Coalescence in branching processes."Presented by Krishna B. Athreya, guest lecturer, 4:10pm in Neill 5W.
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| Mar 27 | Using mathematics to predict future cholera outbreaks Assistant professor Xueying Wang has developed two equation-based models to provide a new and predictive framework for anticipating cholera outbreaks which will help plan for intervention.Read an article about this research. |
| Mar 26 | Mathematicians build code to take on the toughest cyber attacks
WSU mathematicians design an encryption code capable of fending off the phenomenal hacking power of a quantum computer. Read a WSU article about Nathan Hamlin and Bill Webb's research. |
| Mar 26 | Thirty-Fourth Annual T.G. Ostrom ColloquiumPresented by Dr. Marty Golubitsky, guest lecturer, 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments served at 3:30pm in Neill 216.
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| Mar 25 | Thirty-Fourth Annual T.G. Ostrom LecturePresented by Dr. Marty Golubitsky, guest lecturer, 7:00pm in Webster 16. A reception immediately following in Neill 216. |
| Mar 14 | Pi Day Celebration!8:30pm at Dr. Moore's home. Come celebrate pi with pizza, pie, soda, and fun pi games! Read about Pi Day 2015 . |
| Mar 12 | Pi(e) Eating ContestCome join the Math Club and PreTom Club as they host a Pie Eating Contest in honor of Pi Day, at noon in the CUB Jr. Ballroom. See you there! Learn more about Pi |
| Mar 11 | Seminar: "A World with Less Gaussian,"Presented by Dr. Haijun Li. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Mar 10 | Taking statistical methods to young children: Jefferson Elementary Statistics Poster CompetitionRead More.
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| Mar 5 | Statistics professors Jan Dasgupta and Marc Evans have taken the lead to form CISER,a new data analysis group to advance interdisciplinary research. |
| Mar 4 | Seminar: "Shapes, Mean Shapes, Median Shapes and the Multiscale Flat Norm,"Presented by Dr. Kevin Vixie. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Feb 25 | Seminar: "Kronecker Limit Formulae and Their Applications,"Presented by Dr. Sheng-Chi Liu. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Feb 23 | Look closely - is baby Sophia counting?
Instructor Rachael Lund and her husband Kasey have a new daughter named Sophia Lund. Sophia was born February 23rd at 7:32am. She weighed 9lbs 10oz and is 20.5 inches long. |
| Feb 19 |
Colloquium: "Modeling of Correlated Objects with application to Detection of Metastatic Cancer using Functional CT Imaging, "Presented by Yuan Wang, postdoctoral fellow from The University of Texas, at 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments at 3:30pm in Neill 216. |
| Feb 18 | Seminar: "Nonlinear Stability Analysis of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in an Aerosol Smoke-Gas Layer: Comparison of Theoretical Predictions with Laboratory Experimental Data,"Presented by Dr. David Wollkind. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Feb 17 | Will Claire be a future mathematician?
Graduate student Peter Klosterman and his wife Esther, welcomed baby Claire into the world on February 17, 2015 at 8:10am. Claire weighed 6lbs 13oz and measured 19 inches in length. |
| Feb 17 |
Seminar: "Analysis of the Transmission of Malaria Parasite,"Presented by James Kehinde. 4:10pm in Jackson Hall Room 53. |
| Feb 12 |
Colloquium: "Theory and Methods for Tensor Covariance Estimation,"Presented by David Gerard. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments at 3:30pm in Neill 216. |
| Feb 11 |
Seminar: "Compactness of q-hulls (q<=1) in Banach spaces of type p,"by Frank Gao. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. |
| Feb 10 |
Colloquium: "A robust network-constrained penalization approach for integrative analysis with applications in TCGA data,"Presented by Dr. Cen Wu, post doctoral associate, Yale University School of Public Health. 4:10pm in Neill 5W. Refreshments at 3:30pm in Neill 216. |
| Feb 3 |
Seminar: "Mathematical Modeling of Cholera Epidemics,"by Dr. Xueying Wang. 4:10pm in Jackson Hall Room 53. |
| Jan 27 |
Seminar: "Invariant Signal Processing in Auditory Biological Systems,"by Dr. Alex Dimitrov. 4:10pm in Jackson Hall Room 53. |
| Jan 27 | WSU Math Teacher Wins MIT Puzzle Competition |
Professor Song-Ping Zhu from the University of Wollongong, Australia, will give a joint Analysis and Colloquium talk titled, "A new integral equation formulation for American put options," on September 26th from 4:10-5:00pm in Neill Hall 5W. Refreshments will be served in the Hacker Lounge (Neill 226) at 3:30pm. Please join us!
Jillian Morrison brought cupcakes today to remember and commemorate Belize's 37th anniversary of Independence (September 21st, 1981- Independence Day).
The theme for this year’s independence celebration in ‘Kriol’ is “Belize da fi wi - now and forever, 8867”.
In English, this translates to “Belize is ours - now and forever, all 8867 square miles.”
Dr. Voulgarakis is a member of the WSU Pullman faculty. His research deals with stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics, computational fluid dynamics and multiscale modeling. 
Dr. Strigul is a member of the WSU Vancouver faculty. He conducts interdisciplinary research across traditional disciplinary boundaries at the interface of applied mathematics, statistics and biology. 
"For outstanding commitment to the students of the Honors College," Dr. Sergey Lapin has received a 2018 Honors Faculty Award from the Honors College.
Congratulations to all graduating mathematics and statistics seniors! Commencement was held at the Beasley Coliseum on May 5th at 8:00am. 
Mathematics graduate student 
Title: "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crystalline Swelling and Failure Properties of Montmorillonite Clay"
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