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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.
Congratulations, Naveen Somasunderam! Naveen received the Graduate School Travel Award to attend the upcoming JMM (Joint Mathematics Meeting) in Baltimore, Maryland, January 2019.
The Research Experience for Undergraduates program at OSU is now accepting applications (until Feb. 20, 2019). The program will support 10 undergraduate students for eight weeks from Monday, June 24th, through Friday, August 16th. Participants must be United States citizens or permanent residents. Students from underrepresented groups in mathematics are strongly encouraged to apply. Participants receive a stipend, travel allowance, and housing allowance. For more information and/or to apply, visit: math.oregonstate.edu/~math_reu/ During the program, we make a point of discussing graduate and career opportunities. We do our best to offer advice and support after the program and encourage students to present their results at professional conferences.
Choah Shin was selected as one of participants of the Broader Engagement program at SIAM CSE (SIAM Computational Science and Engineering meeting to be held in Spokane in February 2019). Choah will have full funding to attend and present a poster. Congratulations!
Azhar Alhammali, Choah Shin, and Joe Umhoefer received travel support from SIAM to attend and present at the SIAM Geosciences conference to be held in March 2019 in Houston. Congratulations!
Tevian Dray is heading to Bénin to teach a 3-week course on differential geometry and general relativity. The invitation comes from the Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques through the Volunteer Lecturer Program of the International Mathematical Union. He hasn't yet been told whether he will be teaching in English or French (or, more likely, both)...
The Paradigms in Physics project has been awarded 2 new NSF grants, one entitled "Second-Generation Dissemination Strategies" ($298,948), the other "Representations in Quantum Mechanics" ($299,282). Co-PIs on both grants are Corinne Manogue (the project leader), Liz Gire, and David Roundy, all in Physics, and Tevian Dray in Math. The first grant will fund a major upgrade to the project's several websites, including an online textbook and other materlals for second-year calculus; the second studies the use of multiple representations in quantum mechanics, including linear algebra. The Paradigms project began with the complete redesign of the upper-division physics major, and has evolved to study student learning of both mathematics and physics; it has now been continuously funded by NSF for 23+ years. Further information is available at http://physics.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki , http://math.oregonstate.edu/bridge , and http://math.oregonstate.edu/BridgeBook .
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.
Mathematics graduate students should meet with their adviser as soon as possible to discuss their course plan for the 2018-19 academic year. To aid in course planning, Graduate Committee has assembled the list at https://math.oregonstate.edu/graduate-courses ; this list is being continuously updated as new information comes in. Course plans (see course plan form ) are due to Graduate Coordinator, Joy King by Wed, Sep 26.
Welcome new graduate students! The graduate cohort 2018-19 is the largest ever, with 23 students entering their first year of regular study at Oregon State, one exchange student from France, and another who is getting a concurrent degree in Engineering. We also have three students beginning their AMP-ramp year (AMP stands for Accelerated Masters Platform). Two of our cohort have received recruitment awards: Hannah Barta is a Provost Scholar, and Nachuan Zhang is a recipient of Wei Family award. Congratulations! Please join Graduate Committee in greeting them and wishing them success in their first year.
Congratulations to Allison Arnold-Roksandich who received Graduate School Travel award towards her travel to JMM (Joint Mathematics Meeting) in Baltimore in January 2019.
Mathematics faculty and graduate students participate in "Discovering the Scientist Within", a free half-day workshop designed to encourage young women to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. See College of Science iMPACT article.
Kudos are due to our extraordinary graduate students who continue to increase the visibility of our program outside OSU. This summer they attended more than 11 summer schools and workshops, and gave more than 7 presentations in the format of posters, contributed, and minisymposium oral presentations at various focused workshops, local events, and at national and international conferences, including a substantial presence at SIAM Annual held in Portland, OR in July 2018. At least four our grads also participated in prestigious internships at national labs and in industry. Please see the record at https://math.oregonstate.edu/graduate-travel , and congratulate those involved for their hard work towards their professional success, as well as for securing funding for these activities; see https://math.oregonstate.edu/graduate-external-awards . (As a reminder, students should provide information about their outside OSU activities to Graduate Coordinator, for inclusion in appropriate websites.)
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.
Mathematics faculty and graduate students host a booth at the da Vinci Days festival, held at the Benton County Fairgrounds, where visitors could participate in a daylong crowd-sourced effort to approximate the value of Π via discrete trials of the Buffon Needle problem. See College of Science iMPACT article.
The blood of schizophrenia patients contains more genetic material from microbes. See College of Science iMPACT article.
Science faculty receive $1 million to increase inclusivity and success of diverse students. See College of Science iMPACT article.
Tackling misconceptions about climate science with mathematics. See College of Science iMPACT article.
Leading mathematicians convene for probability conference. See College of Science iMPACT article.