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Join us again for another wonderful warm College of Science welcome to our new students on Tuesday, September 18th from 1:30-3:00 PM outside of Kidder Hall on the Library Quad. We’ll be serving rootbeer floats again, and socializing with our student clubs, incoming students, and colleagues. Please encourage your faculty and students to join us on this great tradition.
Congratulations to Allison Arnold-Roksandich who received Graduate School Travel award towards her travel to JMM (Joint Mathematics Meeting) in Baltimore in January 2019.
Congratulations to Dr. Elise Lockwood, who is the 2018 recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's Annie and John Selden Prize for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education . This prize is awarded biennially to honor a researcher who has established a significant record of published research in undergraduate mathematics education. The public announcement was made earlier this month at the MAA MathFest in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Noted mathematical ecologist talks on predator-prey equations. See College of Science iMPACT article.
Leading mathematicians convene for probability conference. See College of Science iMPACT article.
Congratulations to Branwen Purdy for being elected 2018-19 Graduate Student Liaison. Duties for Graduate Student Liaison include; keeping an open line of communication between faculty and students, being a confidential source for graduate student conflict resolution, and organizing events. Thank you, Branwen!!
The 33rd Annual Lonseth Lecture took place May 3rd, 2018. Congratulations, to the following award winners: Joel Davis Award for Excellence in Mathematics- Dang Dinh Botond Gabor Eross math Memorial Scholarship- Andrea Lanz Evan Tufte Catherine Ordway Lucy Huffman Jeremy Lilly Edward H. Stockwell- Sara Tro Sean Pitman Michael Aimonetto Actuarial Science- Joel Belsterling Michael Papendieck Benjamin Sharkansky Logan Wooldridge Gary L. Musser- Melissa Scarborough Marissa Downing WIC Culture of Writing- Brandon Farmer Mathematics Competition: Virginia Tech Regional- Melissa Scarborough Mathematics Competition: William Lowell Putnam- Patrick Flynn Jesse Johnson Melissa Scarborough William F. Burger Graduate Teaching- Allison Stacey Ricardo Reyes Grimaldo Outstanding Performance in Coursework- Adaline De Chenne Worapan Homsomboon Dionysus Birnbaum Stephen Krughoff Jesse Andrews Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Qualifying Exams- Michael Allen Sebastian Naranjo Graduate Student Excellence- Azhar Alhammali Samantha Smith Graduate Faculty- Mary Beisiegel
Azhar Alhammali has been awarded the Oregon Lottery Graduate Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Congratulations!
Portland State was the host of Fifth CASCADE RAIN (Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical) 2018 Meeting, in Portland, OR, and featured a strong representation from Math OSU including former alumni and Cascade ``founding father'' (and designated organizer for 2019) Tom Humphreys. Azhar Alhammali and Joe Umhoefer gave talks, and Lisa Bigler, Diana Gonzalez, Alireza Hosseinkhan, and Choah Shin were in attendance. The poem (among three at https://sites.google.com/view/cascaderain2018/ ) by the host Jeff Ovall says it all We imbibed a fifth of Cascade RAIN. Sampling delicacies both earthy and sublime some with a complex flavor. PDEs? Yes, please. Linear algebra? Positively, definitely. Data analysis? (Topo) logically. Statistical techniques? Probably. Optimization? Nearly. How did we celebrate afterward? We plead the fifth.
The AMS Western Section Meeting in Portland, April 14-15 had the largest OSU Math representation ever! In addition to several faculty who gave talks and organized special sessions, an impressive number of 7 presentations in special sessions, and overall presence of 20 of OSU Math graduate students were noticed: Azhar Alhammali (talk), Michael Allen, Lisa Bigler, Dionysus Birnbaum, Brady Bowen, Charles Camacho (talk), Zeting Dong, Sally Fletcher, Diana Gonzalez, Eleanor Holland (talk), Sandeep Koranne, Stephen Krughoff (talk), Martijn Oostrom, Branwen Purdy, Evan Rajbhandari, Zack Reed (talk), Choah Shin (talk), Joe Umhoefer (talk), Mesa Walker, and Kevin Zhang. Go Beavs!
Mathematics graduate students who are completing their degree program this Spring should follow the steps as outlined in the Graduate Handbook. (For MS, refer to 5.1.G on p7, for PhD refer to 5.2.J on p10, in the 2017-18 Handbook). Here is a reminder of what to do as concerns your final exam (the defense). People and room calendars fill up quickly in this busy time, so plan and act early. Work with your major professor and committee to schedule the final exam (reserve 2h), reserve the room online, and schedule it with Graduate School (two weeks in advance). For all these, you can find links at https://gradschool.oregonstate.edu/progress/exams-and-meetings (You should also file a diploma application and know how to format the thesis; see https://math.oregonstate.edu/grad_resources for more links). For PhD thesis, MS Thesis, and MS Paper options, your defense includes a public portion which must be advertized. Send the necessary information including...
Graduate School is pleased to inform you about two new video tutorials for you to share with students who intend to complete their degrees this spring or summer. • Completing your degree as a graduate student, https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_4lxxk6au/15470772 , this tutorial walks students through the steps, deadlines and documents they need to submit to finish their degree. • How to take part in commencement as a graduate student, https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_h0l04ohr/ , this tutorial explains the process for taking part in commencement activities Please let us know if there are other ways we can assist as your students prepare for completion. _________________________________________________ Jessica Beck, Ph.D. Assistant Dean Graduate School |Oregon State University 204 Heckart | Corvallis, OR 97331 541.737.8576 | jessica.beck@oregonstate.edu
Graduate Committee has asked Mathematics Graduate students to fill out and submit the annual survey which will be the basis for their annual review, as required by Graduate School. This review will also be used in consideration of GTA appointments for 2018-19. Students should have received a link to the survey, which will be active until April 23. (Let Graduate Committee know if you don't have the link). We ask that all students (including those graduating) fill the survey out. Students should print the survey just before clicking "submit", discuss their answers with their advisers, obtain their signature, and take the survey to Graduate coordinator, by Tuesday April 24 noon. (First year students don't need the signature). Students in special circumstances which, e.g., require a petition for GTA support, should consider filing their petitions to Graduate Committee around the time that the survey is due.
Important Deadlines for all Spring term Graduates: - April 6th - Submit your diploma application, by logging into MyOSU, go to Student Records, and click on Apply for Graduation - April 27th - If attending commencement, confirm attendance, by logging into MyOSU, go to Student Records, and click on Commencement Attendance Confirmation. You can always change later if you decide not to attend. - April 20th - All PhD students completing spring term, please email the title of your dissertation and major professor’s name to – Julie.Kurtz@oregonstate.edu Note: to receive a spring diploma all degree requirements must be completed by June 15, 2018. To be assured you receive your diploma at commencement all degree requirements should be completed by June 1, 2018. Summer term grad students wanting to attend commencement: o submit diploma app by April 6th o confirm attendance by April 27th o Email signed Summer Attending Form found...
It is my pleasure to announce that Professor Juan Restrepo has been elected SIAM Fellow. Juan is recognized for his contributions to the mathematical and computational modeling of the ocean and atmosphere. SIAM Fellows will be recognized at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting taking place in Portland OR July 9-13, 2018. Congratulations Juan, a great way to start April, Math Awareness Month.