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Five OSU Mathematics graduate students will participate in a workshop of the NSF-funded program "Transforming Instruction in Undergraduate Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources". The workshop will take place July 19, 20 at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The program creates student projects for use in the undergraduate mathematics classroom which teaches content based around primary historical sources: https://blogs.ursinus.edu/triumphs/ [blogs.ursinus.edu]. The OSU graduate students who will attend the July workshop at NMSU are Adaline De Chenne, Sarah Erickson, Sarah Hagen, Branwen Purdy, and Naveen Somasunderam. In Fall 2018 Sarah Hagen used several of the primary source projects in teaching a "boot camp" for incoming OSU graduate students. She will make a one-hour featured presentation at the workshop, which is co-organized by OSU Professor David Pengelley.
Ruby Chick has received funding to participate in in the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp at the University of Delaware, which will be held from June 12-15. Congratulations to Ruby!
Claire Gibbons was recently hired as a Tenure-Track Mathematics Instructor at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington. Congratulations, Claire!
Lisa Bigler was awarded a Student Assistantship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She will be studying numerical modeling in the CR-Computational Research Division this summer, from June 24th to August 20th 2019. Congratulations!
Keith Schloeman has been appointed Chair of the Mathematics Department at Chemeketa Community College. Keith received his MS in Mathematics from OSU in 2009 and served as an Instructor and Academic Advisor here in the OSU Mathematics Department until 2014. Congratulations Keith!
Naren Vohra was accepted to participate in the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp to be held at the University of Delaware, and the Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop to be held at New Jersey Tech June 12-15 and June 17-21, 2019. Naren also received travel and local support to attend. Congratulations, Naren!
The results from the 2019 COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling are in. The COMAP contest is an international, team based, undergraduate, mathematical modeling competition. Teams of up to three students write up a thorough solution approach within 4 days. Submissions are judged on the basis of scientific merits as well as clarity and organization of the written report. This year, 14,108 teams representing institutions from seventeen countries/regions participated in the contest. One of our teams, consisting of Andrea Lanz, Sara Tro and Michael Kupperman, was awarded Meritorious Winner! This corresponds to the top 7% internationally. Only 42 teams did better! Other Successful Participants from OSU include Elaine Swanson, Max Morrow, Christine Wong, Rachel Sousa, Megan Tucker and Sean Pitman. Congratulations to all of our participants. This year’s contest ran from Thursday, January 24 to Monday, January 28, 2019. During that time, teams researched, modeled, and submitted a solution to one...
Ruby Chick has been selected to participate in the “ Conference on Multiscale Modeling in Mathematical Biology ,” May 20-22 at the University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics. Ruby has received funding from the NSF and the IMA to attend this conference. This is a conference on multiscale mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, centered around topics influenced by the contributions of Hans Othmer.
Mathematics PhD student Brady Bowen, Visiting Assistant Professor Blessing Emerenini,and Professor Vrushali Bokil will be participating and giving talks at the Fifth International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA during May 19-24, 2019. Bowen, Emerenini and Bokil will all give invited talks in the minisymposium, " Recent Advances in Epidemiological Modeling Arising from Human, Animal and Plant Communities ", co-organized by Vrushali Bokil, Blessing Emerenini and Frederic Hamelin, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Agrocampus Ouest, INRA and University of Rennes in Rennes, France.
Baton Gattis and Hannah Barton are the 2019-20 Graduate Student Liaisons! Congratulations, Barton, and Hannah!!
The National Science Foundation awarded a new grant "Modeling with Constraints and Phase Transitions in Porous Media" DMS-1912938 of $224K for 2019-2022 to Malgorzata Peszynska as Principal Investigator. With her collaborators and students they will develop new mathematical results as well as continue interdisciplinary modeling efforts. The project is motivated by the multiscale dynamics in the Earth's environment which requires further insights into the coupled processes of energy and mass transport across the several interlinked spatial and temporal scales including the pore-scale. The project will address mathematical and computational challenges arising in the models of phase change in porous media such as permafrost, sub-sea sediments, geysers or geothermal reservoirs, and the evolution and migration of the fluids as the phase change occurs in response to the increased temperature or mechanical disturbance.
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!
Dr. Heidi Schellman will host a workshop titled "Learn How to Negotiate a Tenure Track position," on Tuesday, May 28th from 4 to 5 pm, at the Hallie Ford Center room 115. For more details https://oregonstate.joinhandshake.com/events/304974/share_preview .
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.
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.
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.
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.