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The annual Induction Ceremony of the Oregon Beta chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon is scheduled for May 23, 4-6pm. The event will feature a special colloquium by our own Prof. Holly Swisher. We will have a reception for the inductees immediately following the ceremony. The schedule will be 4-4:30 induction 4:30-5:30 talk 5:30 reception Please come support and congratulate our students. The students are encouraged to invite friends and family, thus this would be an opportunity to meet them as well.
Congratulations are due to Naren Vohra for securing two internships scheduled this Spring and Summer 2022. Naren is participating in an 8 week virtual internship at, and supported by Woodwell Climate Research Center. In his project he models ground deformation due to thawing permafrost. Woodwell Climate Research Center https://www.woodwellclimate.org/ is a leading source of climate science that drives the urgent action needed to solve the climate crisis. In Summer 2022 Naren will return to Los Alamos National Laboratory (this time onsite, following his NSF MSGI funded virtual work in Summer 2021) to continue working on the development of accurate and robust numerical methods for integrated hydrology models that couple surface and subsurface flows with mentors in the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group in Los Alamos National Laboratory. Way to go, Naren!
Professor Vrushali Bokil will be giving three lectures as part of the Kieval Lecture Series at Southern Oregon University starting May 9. The titles are "Mathematics - A Language for Understanding Love, Life, and the Universe", "Optimal Control of Plant Disease Epidemics", and "Diversity, Equity, Access & Inclusion Lecture: Mindfulness and Anti-Oppression in Science". See media coverage at The Jefferson Exchange .
Mathematics graduate student Arthur Mills was selected for an onsite internship appointment with the NSF Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) Program for summer 2022. He has been selected to participate at the National Energy Technology Laboratory with Wu Zhang. Arthur will be working on a 3-D imaging project. Congratulations, Arthur!
Mathematics PhD student Lisa Bigler will present an invited talk on her research at ESCO, 8th European Seminar on Computing, to be held in Pilsen, Chech Republic in June 2022 within a minisymposium on "Advanced Computational Methods for Climate Modeling and Analysis". Her talk is titled "Multiscale modeling of thermal properties of permafrost with an outlook towards comprehensive multiphysics models." Lisa received College of Science Student Travel Award (COSSTA) to supplement the support from Mathematics Department and from Lisa's adviser's NSF grant. Congratulations and travel safe, Lisa!
Mathematics graduate student Madison Phelps was selected to be an NSF MSGI (National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship) program participant with funding to cover 10 weeks of her summer 2022. Madison will participate in the project "Deepening our understanding of Numerical Integration techniques" at the Fermi lab this summer. Fermilab https://www.fnal.gov/ is America's particle physics and accelerator laboratory. Congratulations, Madison!
We are pleased to share our annual alumni newsletter, Math in the Valley, containing recent news about student success, our alumni, exceptional research, teaching excellence, progress in diversity, outreach and more. The 2021-2022 edition of the newsletter can be accessed, along with all previous issues, at math.oregonstate.edu/valley .
Dear Colleagues, All are invited to participate in the AMC (Applied Math and Computation) seminar this Spring which meets Fridays at noon. We will have zoom and in-person talks. Zoom link and seminar announcements are sent usually a day or two before each seminar to the participants. We ask that all (including registered students) sign up for our seminar lists, with links available at https://math.oregonstate.edu/amc_seminar . If you have questions, please contact Malgorzata Peszynska, Regards and see you Friday April 1st in STAG 161 or on zoom. Ralph Showalter and Malgo Peszynska
Prof. Malgorzata Peszynska has been presented with the Champion of Science Dean's award! This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated excellence and extra effort that goes beyond what is requested, and the highest quality performance. The award is modeled, including its name, after the President’s Beaver Champion Award. More details are in the Impact feature story . Congratulations Malgo!
New feature articles have been posted by the newsletter/media committee during Fall and Winter terms, and are now published on the Math Website. In case you missed them, these are: New NSF Award in Number Theory Holly Swisher was recently awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant Welcome to new tenure-track assistant professors Swati Patel and Axel Saenz Rodriguez who joined the Department of Mathematics in September Math alumnus honored by university Michael Waterman receives the 2021 Lifetime Achievement in Science Award. New Graduate Students 2021-2022 The mathematics department welcomes new graduate students for 2021-2022. New Faculty Hires 2021-2022 The mathematics department welcomes new faculty in 2021-2022. Recent Math Graduate Finds Actuarial Success 2020 math graduate James Hansen has found success in his position as an Actuarial Analyst with GovInvest.
Congratulations to Naren Vohra, PhD student in Mathematics Department who was selected as the Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Student, and participated in the workshop "Multiscale Coupled Models for Complex Media: From Analysis to Simulation in Geophysics and Medicine" which ran in hybrid mode 1/22-1/29, 2022 at the Mathematics Research Institute (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut) in Oberwolfach, Germany. Naren also received travel support as a US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow. This trip was also followed by his research visit at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he spent a week collaborating with the Numerical Mathematics group. Well done, Naren!
Dear Colleagues, Everyone is invited to the AMC seminar which continues in WInter on Fridays at noon. Those on campus (including students registered for the seminar under CRN 31866) meet in STAG 112. Those who wish to attend by zoom should sign up for AMC seminar email list listed on seminar website https://math.oregonstate.edu/amc_seminar We send seminar announcements to these lists along with zoom links usually a day or so before the seminar. Organizers: Ralph Showalter and Malgo Peszynska
Choah Shin, Mathematics PhD alumna (2021), accepted a position of internal consultant at Ab initio company, located in Boston area. Ab Initio is an enterprise software company that builds a high-performance data processing platform. This platform helps the integration of arbitrary data sources and programs and supplies entire metadata management across the enterprise. Choah will start on Nov 1. Congratulations Choah!
The National Science Foundation has selected Elise Lockwood to serve as a rotating program director within the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, a position she started in August 2021. Within EHR, Lockwood works primarily with programs in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), and she also works on several cross-divisional programs. DUE's programs are intended to strengthen STEM education at colleges and universities by improving curricula, instruction, laboratories, infrastructure, assessment, diversity of students and faculty, and collaborations. Lockwood will facilitate the review of national research proposals and make crucial funding recommendations during her term. The unique opportunity will enable Lockwood to help shape the future of the field of mathematics education research. Lockwood has relocated to Alexandria, VA during her time in this rotating position.
Math Majors, Friends, Family, and Colleagues, Please join us Friday, June 11, any time between 10:00am-Noon for the first ever Mathematics Department Pre-Commencement Processional Brunch. To get ready for the Celebratory Processional from campus down to Reser Stadium that begins at 12:30, please drop by the lawn outside the MSLC on the south side of Kidder Hall. Light brunch-worthy refreshments will be served, including beverages. To celebrate reopening and graduation, all faculty, staff, and students are invited, plus families of grads. Grads from 2020 and 2021 are especially invited!! Please invite your loved ones. No need to RSVP. Processional marchers are encouraged to wear cap-n-gown if you wish. Photo ops galore! In case of rain, we’ll jump inside to the MSLC, so bring a mask for in case.
Congratulations to Sebastian Naranjo Alvarez for obtaining a new postdoctoral position! Sebastian defended his PhD dissertation in Winter 2021. Sebastian will be starting as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Italy. He has recently published two co-authored papers in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first is a paper titled, The virtual element method for resistive magnetohydrodynamics , which is now published online in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering , volume 381, 1 August 2021. Also, see the arxiv site . A second is a book chapter that will be published by Springer. Here is a link to the arxiv site for the chapter.
New feature articles have been posted by the newsletter/media committee and are now published on the Math Website. These are: Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony Oregon Beta chapter honors 33 inductees with ceremony Persistent math major heads off to grad school Jennifer Smucker leaves behind the combine to pave a path Epidemiologist and public health data scientist Alumnus Peter Banwarth develops models to help guide Benton County's Covid response Math double major wins Goldwater Scholarship Emily Gemmill among winners of prestigious award for undergraduate research Peszynska receives prestigious Geosciences Career Prize The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics honors Professor Peszynska
Elaine Swanson, post baccalaureate student in the mathematical biology option, was selected for a STudent Academic Research Review award for 2020-2021 by the Oregon NASA Space Grant (OSGC) to work on a project entitled "Creating an aerobic compost tea, fed through a hydroponic system, to sustain plant growth in a small, controlled environmental habitat". Her final presentation of research will be given at the OSGC 2021 Spring Symposium on Friday May 21 (see schedule here ). For this and other accomplishments, Elaine was recently recognized as a Finalist for the 2021 National Space Club and Foundation Keynote Scholarship . The award is given to a high school senior, undergraduate or graduate student with definite plans to pursue a career in the Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) fields. Elaine was a NASA intern with Kennedy Space Center’s crop production team in the summer of 2018. Since then, she has established...
The College of Science has announced that the following faculty have received a promotion and/or tenure for the 2020-21 academic year. Dr. Ben Dalziel will be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Hoe Woon Kim will be promoted to Senior Instructor II. Dr. Nathan Gibson will be promoted to Professor. Congratulations to each!
The OSU Chapter of the national mathematics honor society Pi Mu Epsilon will host its annual induction ceremony and celebration (via Zoom) Monday May 17, beginning at 4pm. Professor Melody Alsaker will give an invited lecture on “ Mathematics and the Future of Biomedical Imaging ” beginning at 4:30pm immediately after the ceremony.