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F. Patricia Medina received a PhD from our department in 2014, and has been a postdoc at Worcester Polytechnical Institute since 2016. Patricia has been also a visiting scholar at ICERM, Brown University in Spring 2019 and will continue in Summer 2019 in Andrea Bertozzi's project at Women research in Mathematics and Data Science workshop at ICERM. Patricia's received an AI for Earth Microsoft Azure Compute Grant that supports the project entitled "Solutions for climate change science: using deep learning to improve vegetation classication". F. Patricia Medina accepted a tenure track position at Yeshiva College in NYC starting Fall 2019. Congratulations!
New feature articles have been created by the newsletter/media committee and are now published on the Math Website. These are URSA Engage funds undergraduates to work on mathematics research Preparing Career Ready Graduates: Mathematics Department Participates in Graduate Appreciation Week Mathematics at the 2019 Undergraduate Student Success Summit Mathematics Department Hosts Annual Ceremony
The 34th Annual Lonseth Lecture took place on Friday, April 19th. The ceremony featured awards given to undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty. The speaker, Dr. Mai Gehrke, gave a lecture on "Using Abstract Mathematical Structures to Study Algorithmic Complexity Questions," followed by a reception. Congratulations to the following award winners. Joel Davis Award for Excellence in Mathematics: Aaliyah Fiala Benjamin Sharkansky Botond Gabor Eross math Memorial Scholarship: Mattia Carbonaro Michael Kupperman Anthony Netz Edward H. Stockwell Award: Francisco Bolanos John Meo Jeremy Shahan Megan Tucker Harry and Molly Goheen Memorial Scholarship: Justin Bloom Actuarial Science Award: Andrew Colburn Sally Fletcher Gary L. Musser Award: Camryn Kimberly WIC Culture of Writing Award: Sara Tro William F. Burger Graduate Teaching Award: Sarah Hagen Outstanding Performance in Coursework Award: Michael Allen Paul Dalenberg Chung-Ping Lai Slade Sanderson Benjamin Toomey Naren Vohra Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Qualifying Exams: Patrick Donaghue Leah Sturman...
Allison Arnold-Roksandich has accepted a job offer to work as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boise State University, starting this August. Congratulations Allison!!!
Sebastian Naranjo has received full funding from the American Institute of Mathematics to attend the Spring Opportunities Workshop. This workshop, sponsored by AIM and NSF , aims to prepare women and underrepresented minorities for work in academia, industry, and government laboratories. This workshop is offered by the Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Initiative with funding from the National Science Foundation.
Friday, April 19, 3-4pm in the Beth Ray Center, BRC 138. Professor Gehrke has experience working in academia in both the United States and in France. Please join her for an interactive discussion before the Lonseth award ceremony starts at 4:30pm. All undergraduate math majors and mathematics graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend. https://math.oregonstate.edu/node/15673 Please note: The Beth Ray Center is next door to the Alumni center where the Lonseth lecture will be held this Friday, April 19 starting at 4:30pm. Students can walk over to the Alumni center after this meeting ends at 4pm.
First-year mathematics major Eli Nicholas is awarded Oregon State University’s most competitive, merit-based scholarship for in-state undergraduates, the OSU Presidential Scholarship, awarded to the highest-caliber high school seniors in Oregon with a record of academic excellence among other accomplishments. In 2018, seven College of Science students received a Presidential Scholarship. See the IMPACT article on Eli Nicholas and the other 2018 Presidential Scholars.
Leanne Merrill is our colloquium speaker on Monday, April 22nd. She will give a "job talk" after her colloquium presentation from 5:00-6:00pm in KIDD 350. This talk is aimed at graduate students and will describe how to prepare to get a teaching-focused tenure-track job in mathematics. All graduate students are encouraged to attend. Faculty and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
The CASCADE RAIN (Regional Applied Interdisciplinary and Numerical) Mathematics meeting was held at UW Bothell in Seattle on Saturday April 13, 2019, and OSU Mathematics had a strong presence. Five graduate students attended, with generous travel support from SIAM PNW. Four of them plus two faculty presented talks. See https://sites.google.com/view/cascaderain2019/ for the event and https://math.oregonstate.edu/graduate-travel for the list of students.
Aaron Wangberg (PhD 2007; major professor Tevian Dray) has received the 2019 Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the North Central Section of the MAA. Aaron is a full professor at Winona State University. He is the second of Tevian's students to receive such an award, as Stuart Boersma (PhD 1994) received the 2013 award from the Pacific Northwest Section. Other past department winners include Tom Dick (2009) and Tevian Dray (2014), both from the PNW section.
It is a pleasure to report further intense research activity of Mathematics graduate students; they also received competitive travel support. Michael Allen and Allison Arnold-Roksandich gave talks at the 33rd Automorphic Forms Workshop, 3/6-3/10 2019, on "Existence of eta-quotients of squarefree levels," and "Establishing Several Infinite Families of Quantum Modular and Mock Modular Forms," . They also received funding by NSF, NSA, and Journal of Number Theory. Looking forward, Leah Sturman, is attending Spring Opportunities Workshop, American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), San Jose, California, April 15-17, 2019; funding by AIM and NSF. Daniel Erickson, will attend USC Summer School: Fluid Dynamics, May 20-24 2019; funding NSF, USC Math Department, and CAMS.
Thanks again to all graduate students and faculty who help with the recruitment of the 2019-20 incoming cohort. Graduate Committee would like to thank in particular our graduate ambassadors in this latest round of visits: Adi, Michael Allen, Joe, Branwen, Allison, Azhar, Hannah, Martijn, and Choah. And of course, none of this would be possible without Joy (thank you).
Thanks to generous support of Math department and work of the Media Committee, the video of Ken Golden's colloquium from February 4 on "Modeling the Melt: What Math Tells Us About Disappearing Polar Sea Ice" is now online. See the link from https://math.oregonstate.edu/node/15294
The winners of the awards at the Graduate Research Showcase are Stephen Krughoff (best blitz presentation), Dallas Foster and Branwen Purdy (tie for best poster). Congratulations!
Graduate Committee is pleased to report the attendance at the Graduate Appreciation and Research Showcase event last Friday. We "sighted" 37 current plus 3 visiting students and 18 faculty. Thanks to all who presented 7 blitz oral presentations which allowed 3.14 minute talks with approximately 3.14 slides. Hmm; it was noticed some approximations were rather accurate, while others were not. We also had 12.3 poster presentations with 13 poster presenters; this particular discrepancy is due to a technical glitch in the poster production at the library. Congratulations to Poster co-winners Branwen Purdy and Dallas Foster, and to Blitz Presentation winner Stephen Krughoff! Great work! Please see https://math.oregonstate.edu/node/15650 for the full list. GCOM would also like to thank Department Head and Graduate School for sponsoring and supporting the event. Big thanks go to Deanne, Joy, Graduate Liason and SIAM student chapter who provided organization and logistics support, and many faculty who...
Ryan Hass has accepted a full time lecturer position at UC Berkeley for the 2019-2020 academic year. We wish him the best!
Lisa Bigler, third year graduate student, was selected to receive support to attend the NSF-CBMS Conference “The Cahn-Hilliard Equation: Recent Advances and Applications” organized by G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein, and R. Temam in May 20-24, 2019 in Montgomery Bell State Park near Nashville, TN. The topic is close to Lisa's computational mathematics research on phase field models. Congratulations!
Choah Shin, a fourth year Mathematics graduate student was selected for the NSF Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (NSF MSGI) for summer 2019. The goal of the internship, sponsored by Division of Mathematical Sciences of National Science Foundation (NSF DMS) is to provide opportunities to enrich the training and education of graduate students in Mathematical Sciences by applying their knowledge and skills in a real world setting. Choah will work on a project "Accelerating simulations in the supercritical regime through locally accurate equations of state" focused on accelerating solution time for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions of supercritical fluids for energy technologies; the project ties to her PhD research on hydrate modeling and her Summer 2018 internship at PNNL. The NSF MSGI Summer 2019 project will be carried out at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Denver. Choah will also present research at the Rocky Mountain Fluids Conference in August. Congratulations!
Kailash Ghimire, (major professor Dennis Garity) who received his Ph.D in 2007, has just been promoted to full professor in the Department of Mathematics at Georgia Southwestern State University. He has been chair of the department there since 2016.
This year as part of Grad Appreciation Week, the Graduate School is hosting visiting speaker Dr. Karen Kelsky, founder and president of "The Professor Is In." Dr. Kelsky will facilitate two workshops, one for faculty and one for students. Student Workshop: ON HACKING THE JOB MARKET 1:30 TO 3 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2019 MU HORIZON ROOM & LIVE WEBINAR Registration required at https://beav.es/ZUZ Faculty Workshop: ADVISING FOR ADVISORS 11:30 A.M. TO 1 P.M. - INCLUDES LUNCH TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2019 MU HORIZON ROOM & LIVE WEBINAR Registration required at https://beav.es/ZUk