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We recently created a new webpage for graduate students. The page provides information on Human Services Resource Center, Free Food at OSU, Counseling, Religious and Cultural support, and other useful campus resources. We will be updating this webpage and adding resources, so please check it out!! https://math.oregonstate.edu/graduate-support
Elise Lockwood has been awarded a 2019 Fulbright scholarship for research in Norway. See the IMPACT site.
Brady Bowen was selected by the OSU SIAM Student Chapter as its official representative at Student Days held this year at SIAM Computational Sciences and Engineering (CSE) annual meeting which is taking place Feb. 25-March 1, in Spokane, Washington. Brady will discuss our chapter’s events and activities from the previous year at a meeting of chapter representatives with SIAM leadership. Student chapter representatives receive travel funding to attend the entire conference.
OSU Mathematics students often attend and contribute to national and international mathematics conferences . Two of the largest are the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM), “the largest mathematics meeting in the world,” which includes the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). See, the feature article created by the newsletter/media committee at https://math.oregonstate.edu/students-attend-conferences
OSU Mathematics graduate students will travel to the conference 2019 SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences held in Houston, TX; see http://meetings.siam.org/program.cfm?CONFCODE=GS19 . Azhar Alhammali will present a minisymposium invited talk on "Numerical Analysis of a System of Variational Inequalities for Biofilm Growth at Porescale"; Lisa Bigler will present a poster on "Modeling Ice/Water Phase Transition at the Porescale"; Choah Shin will present "Stability Analysis and Solvers for Phase Transitions in Hydrate Formation", and Joe Umhoefer will present an oral talk on "Approximating Permeability Density Functions for Flow and Transport in Obstructed Porous Media". Azhar, Choah and Joe have received SIAM Travel awards. The students also appreciate the department plus NSF support for travel. Congratulations!
Graduate Committee would like to thank graduate students who are helping with the graduate recruitment for AY 2019-20. Allison, Martijn, MichaelA, MichaelL, Guochen and Patrick: thanks for serving as ambassadors of our graduate program. Others interested in being chaperons and going to lunch/coffee or giving the students a tour of campus, please let Joy or Malgo know.
Congratulations to Choah Shin who will be presenting at SIAM CSE Feb 25-March 1 as one of the participants of the Broader Horizons program (see http://shinstitute.org/the-broader-engagement-be-program/ for details of the program). This is her second time participating in the program; Choah will receive full funding and present a poster "Blow-up Behavior of Conservation Law with Spatially Varying Flux".
Several OSU MATH graduate students and many faculty attended the JMM conference in January. Graduate students representing OSU this year were Sarah Hagen (talk) "A Transition-to-Graduate-School Boot Camp Using Active Learning and Primary Historical Sources," Charles Camacho (talk) "Counting Quasiplatonic Topological Actions of the Cyclic Group on Surfaces," Naveen Somasunderam (talk) "Equidistribution of sequences on the p-adic unit ball, Special Session on Analytic Number Theory," and Allison Arnold-Roksandich (poster) "Establishing Several Infinite Families of Quantum Modular and Mock Modular Forms." (Allison's picture at her poster is in the AWM newsletter!). Zheting Dong also presented. This information along with other graduate travel achievements can be viewed at https://math.oregonstate.edu/graduate-travel . A big "congratulations" to these students.
Oregon Number Theory Days, a triannual number theory seminar rotating between Oregon State University, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon will meet Saturday, February 16, 2019 at Oregon State University. See, the feature article created by the newsletter/media committee at https://math.oregonstate.edu/oregon-number-theory-days-2019
Sebastián Naranjo Álvarez will be participating in the Broader Engagement program at the 2019 Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in Spokane, February 25-March 1, 2019. SIAM CSE19 conference Broader Engagement (BE) program, organized by the Sustainable Horizons Institute (SHI) will provide a rich scientific program, mentoring, and career and professional development to students to broaden their experience in research-based professional activities. Sebastián has received full funding from the BE program, and he will present a poster on his research titled, " A Mimetic Method for Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics". Congratulations Sebastián !
Three mathematics graduate students were selected to attend summer programs next year organized and funded by the MSRI. Daniel Erickson will attend the school on "Recent topics on well-posedness and stability of incompressible fluid and related topics" at MSRI in Berkeley, Choah Shin will attend "Mathematics of Machine Learning" at Microsoft, and Worapon Homsomboon will attend "Geometric Group Theory" in Oaxaca, MX.
Congratulations to Zheting Dong who will present at the Australian-German Workshop on "Differential Geometry in the Large", in Melbourne, Australia, 4-15 February 2019. Zheting received funding from the organizers to attend.
Presented by SHI's President, Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D, as part of Emerging Researchers national Conference on STEM. You’ll learn about the judging criteria, how to prepare, and tips when presenting. There will be time at the end for a discussion on the topic and to ask the presenter any questions you may have about the process of developing your presentation and receiving high marks. Please note that these webinars are not only for ERN Conference presenting students. All students from any institution can benefit from these webinars and should be informed of the opportunity. The dates for these events are as follows: How to Deliver an Excellent Poster Research Presentation Tuesday, February 5th @ 11:00 AM EST How to Deliver an Excellent Oral Research Presentation Wednesday, February 6th @11: 00 AM EST To register for the webinar that fits your schedule, visit our site at the following address: www.emerging-researchers.org/presentationwebinar2019
This event hosted by Graduate School in week ONE of Spring term will include various social and networking opportunities, plus Professional Development (Tuesday, details TBA), and Drop-in resume or CV review on Thursday, April 4 – 1 to 4 p.m. in the GSSC Board Room (MU 203B) on "Need help organizing and/or editing your resume/CV? Have some questions about how to sell yourself on paper? Stop by to get some one-on-one tips from a representative of the OSU Career Development Center! Please remember to bring a hardy copy of your documents to have them reviewed."
A new article has been created by the Newsletter/Media Committee about Mathematics graduate students' participation in a variety of summer enrichment activities. See https://math.oregonstate.edu/summer-graduate-internships
Planned gift by alumnus Thomas Cavaiani will establish the first endowed professorship in mathematics. See the Impact article on Tom Cavaiani.
As the newly appointed coordinator of the Math and Statistics Learning Center, Wendy Rose Aaron will enhance the tools provided to mathematics students campus wide. See the Impact article on Wendy Aaron.
The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT Austin and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are partnering together to host Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences, an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic and research careers. The workshop will be held April 9-10, 2019 at ICES. We are seeking nominations for outstanding candidates in their final year of PhD or within three years of having graduated. We will select approximately 25 women to come to ICES for two days of research presentations, poster sessions, and interactive discussions about academic and research careers, with travel expenses fully covered. Full details, including the nomination form, are at https://risingstars.ices.utexas.edu/ . Please consider nominating one of your outstanding current/recent PhD students or postdocs. Nominations are due January 22, 2019.
Congratulations to Ruby Chick! Ruby has received full funding from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) to participate in a NIMBioS tutorial on "Network Modeling", February 4-6, 2019 on the campus of the University of Tennesse in Knoxville. This tutorial aims to introduce students and interested faculty to the topic of complex networks.
Graduate Committee is pleased to report that our Graduate program received its second Graduate Laurels Block grant from Graduate School for the 2019-20 academic year. The previous grant was for the AY 2017-18 and supported several term tuition waivers as well as tuition remission. The allocation for the current grant will be announced later.