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Sarah Hagen has just published "Active Learning and the Transformation of a Graduate Student Instructor" in the AMS Blog on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at https://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/ . The article is about her own transformation from lecturer to facilitator of student active learning in the classroom, and her insights about it, in the context of teaching the OSU Math boot camp for incoming graduate students.
Patrick Flynn (BS Mathematics & Physics ’18), a Ph.D. student of applied mathematics at Brown University and Gregory Mirek Brandt (BS Mathematics & Physics ’18), a Ph.D. student of astrophysics at the University of California Santa Barbara are awarded 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Read about them in this IMPACT article.
The Daily Barometer featured our Virtual MSLC and some of the mathematics faculty involved in its running in a recent article. Read the article here.
Professor David Pengelley presented " Sophie Germain's Grand Plan to Prove Fermat's Last Theorem " on May 11, 2020, via Zoom. Sponsored by the Oregon State University student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), and introduced by Branwen Purdy, President of the AWM student chapter. The audience was primarily OSU Mathematics faculty and graduate students, and external guests Dora Musielak and Dominic Klyve. Abstract: The Oregon State University chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics invites you to join in celebrating International Women in Mathematics Day with a special colloquium on a famous woman mathematician. Sophie Germain (1776-1831) is the first woman known to have created important new mathematical research. She is best known in number theory for the first general result aimed at proving Fermat's Last Theorem, finally proven only 25 years ago. However, her unpublished manuscripts, and a letter to Gauss, reveal that for...
New featured stories (slider stories) have been created by the newsletter/media committee and are now published on the Math Web Site. These are regarding New Instructors for 2019-2020, the recent online Cascade RAIN meeting, and the recent online NUMS meeting.
Sara Clark, Senior Mathematics Instructor and Academic Advisor, and Liz Jones, Instructor of Mathematics, will be discussing their experiences redesigning developmental math courses, as well as lessons learned during the current COVID-19 crisis, in a webinar this Thursday. This APLU sponsored webinar - A Team-Based Approach to Redesigning Developmental Math Courses at Oregon State University - will be Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 8:30 am. The free webinar will also be recorded and shared after the event. You can register for this event at the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_43eBIo-bR-OD6TGL9CJYog?mkt_tok=eyJpI... .
Mathematics major Saki Nakai has received a Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) award to support her summer research on mathematical modeling of psychological disorders, with a particular focus on bipolar disorder. Saki is an Honors scholar double majoring in Mathematics (with an option in mathematical biology) and Psychology and minoring in French and Music Performance. This SURE project will be an interdisciplinary project that will bridge mathematics and psychology. Saki will work with Professor Vrushali Bokil on her research. The SURE program provides students with a stipend for 11 weeks of full time research, and an additional $500 for research expenses to support their project..
Worapan Homsomboon, Slade Sanderson, and Mesa Walker were supported participants at the Riemann Surfaces and Their Moduli Spaces Conference. This conference was held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, February 7-9. More information about the conference can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/rtgmini-conferenceutah2020/home?authuser=0 .
Mathematics graduate student Lisa Bigler has received funding from a Graduate School Travel Award to attend the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth. This SIAM conference will take place June 8-10, 2020, in Garden Grove, California. You can find more information about the conference here: https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/mpe20 . Bigler, the Vice President of the SIAM student chapter here at Oregon State, will be the speaker for a talk - "Coupled Processes and Scales in Permafrost." This talk will be within a mini-symposium - "Advances In Permafrost Modeling." You can find the schedule of the mini-symposium here: https://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=68536 .
Arthur Mills, a second year Mathematics graduate student, has received funding to attend the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference. This conference is scheduled for April 11th and 12th, at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. See https://gstgc20.sitehost.iu.edu/GSTGC2020Poster.pdf for more information.
There are four Oregon State Mathematics students scheduled to attend the Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar. The graduate students attending include Arthur Mills, Johannes Krotz, and Zachary Gregg. They will be accompanied by Eli Winkelman, an undergraduate math student. The seminar will take place in Portland on March 7th and 8th. More information about the seminar can be found on the following website: https://sites.math.washington.edu/~lee/PNGS/2020-spring/index.html .
Math graduate students Naren Vohra, Martijn Oostron, and Hannah Barta will all be attending NSF funded Graduate Summer School programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley California this summer. Naren and Martijn are enrolled in a program on 'Random Graphs'; see http://www.msri.org/summer_schools/923 for information. Hannah Barta is enrolled in 'Introduction to Water Waves'; see http://www.msri.org/summer_schools/910 for information.
Mathematics PhD student Choah Shin was accepted to present a poster (with travel support) at the Gordon Research Conference and Seminar in Galveston, TX, February 23-28 2020. The 2020 Natural Gas Hydrate Systems Gordon Research Conference will bring together academic, government, and industry researchers at all career stages to explore controls on the formation, evolution, and destruction of gas hydrate in a wide range of natural and engineered systems.
A large group of mathematics grad students including Chung-Ping Lai, Arthur Mills, Danial Wentland, Nachuan Zhang, Zachary Gregg and Johannes Krotz will attend the "Data Science and Image Analysis Conference of the Pacific Northwest" in Pullman, WA 2/29-3/1 2020. The first three will give talks, and the first four have received travel support. Congratulations!
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 2019-2020 edition of the newsletter can be accessed, along with all previous issues, at math.oregonstate.edu/valley . In case you missed them, new feature articles were created in Summer and Fall of 2019 by the newsletter/media committee and are now published on the Math Website. These are 2019 Research Experience for Undergraduates Celebrate new mathematicians in our community Mathematics Professor is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society Mathematics Professor is NSF Program Director Fairy Circles and Cancer Therapies Google grant awarded to Elise Lockwood
ADVANCE Faculty Fellow and Professor of Mathematics, Vrushali Bokil is awarded the College of Science's Inaugural Inclusive Excellence Award . See the ADVANCE site for more information.
Oregon State faculty and students showed strong presence in numbers and in quality of research presentations in thematic sessions and posters at the Second Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific Northwest Section held at Seattle University the weekend October 18-20, 2019. See picture (courtesy of Blaec Bejarano) featuring current and former OSU Mathematics grads and faculty: Naren Vohra, Nachuan Zhang, Sooie-Hoe Loke, Tuan Pham, JJ Zeng, Ralph Showalter, Choah Shin, Yi Zhang, Lisa Bigler, Malgo Peszynska, Patrik Nabelek, Evan Rajbhandari, Dallas Foster, Blaec Bejarano, Radu Dascaliuc, and Alireza Hosseinkhan. Not present in this photo are Robert Higdon, Thomas Humphries, Adel Faridani and Enrique Thomann who also attended.
Oregon State University's Department of Mathematics invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 9-month, tenure track Assistant Professor. Priority will be given to candidates who have a proven record of success in research in areas of Analysis, Probability, or Mathematical Biology. Candidates should have a PhD in Mathematics or a related field by the anticipated starting date of September 16 2020. For full consideration, applications should be completed by October 31 2019. Interested candidates can start the application process on the MathJobs site https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/14613
Please join me in congratulating Ruby chick. Ruby has been awarded a fellowship by the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NSF-NRT) program in " Risk and Uncertainty Quantification in Marine Science " program at Oregon State University for the 2019-2020 academic year. Ruby will be participating in the project on " A Systems-based Understanding of Microplastic Impacts on Ecological and Human Health ". Ruby's masters research is on understanding the endocrine system and its dysfunction in mamals. Within this NRT project, she will participate in collaboratively producing a systems based model, with other graduate students, that predicts the most impactful sources of plastic pollution to gain an understanding of biological and ecological systems, and how they influence one another. As part of this NRT Fellowship, Ruby will also be fully funded to participate in a summer internship in industry or a government lab. Congratulations Ruby!
Mathematics Professor Juan M. Restrepo has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS Council of Representatives made this decision upon the recommendation of the APS Topical Group on Physics of Climate (GPC). This is a prestigious recognition for outstanding contribution to physics. The number of APS Fellows elected each year is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. Congratulations, Juan, on being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.