Austin Lawson successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled, “On the preservation of coarse properties over products and on persistence curves”. Austin was advised by Greg Bell. Congratulations to both Austin and Greg.
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics hosted the 14th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference (RMSC) on November 3, 2018. The conference was attended 175 participants including: 134 students: 4 middle and high school students, 99 undergraduate students, and 31 graduate students; and 40 faculty and industry representatives. Congratulations to Jan Rychtář and… Continue reading…
Ratnasingham Shivaji has been invited to join the 2019 class of the Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Please see the link: https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows for more information. He will be honored at the Fellows reception at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting in January. See also the Campus Weekly article link, https://uc.uncg.edu/prod/cweekly/2018/11/12/dr-ratnasingam-shivaji-honored-as-fellow-of-the-american-mathematical-society/.
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics welcomes Dr. Jianping Sun who will join as a new tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2018. Learn more about her by clicking on her photo to the right.
The Department successfully hosted the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC) October 5-7, 2018. There were 8 plenary talks, 122 other talks (25 of which were given by students) and 174 delegates. Congratulations to Sat Gupta and the members of the organizing committee for organizing a successful conference.
NSF awarded a grant for $9,000 to support the 2019 UNCG Summer School in Computational Number Theory workshop. Congratulations to Brett Tangedal, Talia Fernós, Sebastian Pauli, Dan Yasaki, and Filip Saidak.
The Department was involved in hosting four excellent REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) programs, namely, Math-Bio REU, Statistics REU, NREUP (National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program), and Number Theory REU at Elon University. The first three programs’ final research presentations were held at UNCG on Friday, July 20, where a total of 8 presentations… Continue reading…
The UNCG Summer School in Computational Number Theory was held May 28-June 1, 2018. There were 26 participants who attended the workshop from various universities. Thanks go to Dan Yasaki, Sebastian Pauli, Filip Saidak, and Brett Tangedal for organizing a successful workshop.
The Department successfully hosted its Fourth Quantitative Methodology Series on May 7 & 9, 2018. There were 69 participants over 2 days of 4 workshops. Thanks go to Scott Richter, Sat Gupta, and Matt Jester for organizing a successful workshop.
With more than 125 journal articles, the Senior Research Excellence Award winner is both an accomplished theoretical researcher and statistical consultant…
