The Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics has awarded Professor Sat Gupta the Sankhyiki Bhushan Award (literal meaning: person of eminence in statistics). This award is given annually and is one of the most prestigious statistics award in India. The award is will be presented to Sat, in absentia, on the morning of… Continue reading…
Professor Sat Gupta was featured in UNCG’s research magazine in an article entitled, “Survey Says…“.
The Department hosted the 12th annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference (RMSC) on November 11 and 12, 2016. The conference was attended by a record number of 222 participants (159 students: 1 middle school, 1 high-school, 124 undergraduate, 33 graduate students, and 63 faculty). The conference was very diverse as UNCG… Continue reading…
Chris (Vanlangenberg) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Data Generation and Estimation for Axially Symmetric Processes on the Sphere”. Chris was advised by Haimeng Zhang.
Congratulations to Maya Chhetri for being chosen for The Award for Distinguished Service to the Department. She was recognized for her dedication to student success in mathematics and statistics, leading efforts to build a very successful Math Help Center, as well as promoting innovative pedagogy in the development of the Math Emporium. Both of… Continue reading…
Tanja (Zatezalo) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Generalized Mixture Estimators for the Finite Population Mean”. Tanja was advised by Sat Gupta
Congratulations to Quinn Morris and Byungjae Son for being the chosen recipients of our inaugural Department of Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Student Excellence Awards in Teaching and Research. For more details, please see https://grs.uncg.edu/graduateawards/
The Department successfully hosted the 26th Palmetto Number Theory Series (PANTS XXVI) September 17-18, 2016. There were 4 plenary talks and 44 delegates attended. Congratulations to Brett Tangedal, Dan Yasaki and Sebastian Pauli for hosting and organizing a successful conference.
Jan Rychtar, Hyunju Oh, Chad Awtrey, and Dewey Taylor received an NSF grant for the amount of $31,730 for a three year period for the The Annual University of North Carolina Greensboro Regional Mathematics & Statistics Conference.
Professors Jan (Rychtar) and Jonathan (Rowell) successfully completed the third summer of the NSF funded REU project in mathematical biology. This summer, Xiaoli (Gao) and Igor (Erovenko) also joined the faculty mentoring team and directed research projects. For ten weeks in 2016 (mid-May to the end of July), Jan, Jonathan, Xiaoli, Igor and Olav Rueppell (from Biology) worked with… Continue reading…
