Dray received the Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award and MAA-PNW 2014 Distinguished Teaching Award
Waymire recognized for exceptional service to the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Undergraduate research experiences in the Mathematical Sciences

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Oct
25
2014
Oct
27
2014

﻿﻿For the past 15 years I have been involved with research that seeks to understand how students can transition from more informal reasoning to more formal, mathematical reasoning. As part of this NSF funded research, we have developed curriculum to help students make this transition. In my current project our team is developing instructional materials appropriate for a first college course in linear algebra including the topics of (1) span and linear independence, (2) matrix multiplication and linear transformations, and (3) eigen theory, change of basis and diagonalization.

Oct
28
2014

For any permutations $\sigma \in S_n$ and $\pi \in S_k$, we say that $\sigma$ contains the pattern $\pi$ if $\sigma$ has a subsequence that is order isomorphic to $\pi$. In this case, we refer to $\pi$ as a pattern of length $k.$ We may endow a pattern $\pi=\pi_1\pi_2\cdots\pi_k$ with proximity restrictions, that is, requiring certain elements of the pattern to correspond to adjacent elements in the permutation $\sigma$. If the elements $\pi_i,\pi_{i+1}$ of the pattern $\pi$ are required to correspond to adjacent elements of $\sigma$, then we place an underscore beneath $\pi_i,\pi_{i+1}$.

Oct
30
2014

Progress toward the development of a safe and effective treatment for AIDS has been slow because the Human Immunodeficiency Virus has the ability to mutate its own structure. This mutation enables the virus to become resistant to previously effective drug therapies. Apart from the traditional role of preventing progression from HIV to AIDS Antiretroviral drugs have an additional clinical benefit of substantially reducing infectiousness thus making them an important strategy in the fight against HIV.

Oct
31
2014
Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar Carlos Santamarina TBA