Gideon Wasserberg, Malcolm Schug and Matina Kalcounis-Ruppell from Biology, and Cliff Smyth from Mathematics & Statistics have received a Giant Steps Research Development Grant of $25,000 for their proposal titled: “Characterization of Lyme disease spread from Virginia into North Carolina: the role of topographic corridors and anthropogenic disturbance“
Congratulations to Tom Lewis and Yi Zhang for being awarded a Regular/New Faculty Grant of $10,000 from the Office of Research and Engagement through June 30, 2019.
Congratulations to Talia Fernós on her four-year appointment to the Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
Greg Bell was selected this year to receive the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Award For Distinguished Service. On November 27, 2017, Greg Bell was presented with this award at our monthly Graduate Tea. Greg was chosen for The Award for Distinguished Service to the Department because of his outstanding service… Continue reading…
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host the 19th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference (RMSC) on November 10-11, 2023. This free, in-person conference is open to students (undergraduate and graduate) and faculty. More details.
This summer we had 5 new Ph.D. graduates. Quinn Morris successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Analysis of Classes of Superlinear Semipositone Problems with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions”. Byungjae Son successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Analysis of Classes of Singular Steady State Reaction Diffusion Equations”. Catherine Payne successfully defended her… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Sat Gupta, Xiaoli Gao, and Somya Mohanty (Computer Science)! The American Statistical Association (ASA) will support a Summer 2018 REU at UNCG (via funds provided to the ASA by NSF). Sat serves as the PI for this grant. The Co-PIs are Xiaoli and Somya. The grant will fund 4 students recruited nationally. Two local… Continue reading…
The Department successfully completed a fourth summer of an NSF-funded REU Site in Mathematical Biology. This was the first summer of the second NSF grant for the REU Site (Lead Principal Investigator, Jan Rychtář; Principal Investigator, Olav Rueppell; and Senior Personnel, Igor Erovenko, Xiaoli Gao, David Remington, Jonathan Rowell, and Filip Saidak). For nine weeks in 2017… Continue reading…
The UNCG Summer School in Computational Number Theory was held May 22-May 26, 2017. There were 31 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.
Jonathan Rowell has been selected for a Candace Bernard and Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorship in the College of Arts & Sciences for 2017-18.
