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Nick Trefethen to Speak at Michigan Tech

Published May 19, 2015

Nick Trefethen of Oxford University will deliver a lecture
“Discrete or Continuous?” at 5:05 p.m. on Monday, April 27, in Fisher 325.

Trefethen has received many honors for this research in Numerical Analysis:

Fellow of the Royal Society
Member of the National Academy of Engineering
The Gold Medal from the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (UK)
The Naylor Prize from the London Mathematical Society

He is past-president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and he has the distinction of being the first customer to buy a copy of Matlab.

Trefethen describes his talk as follows: “As old as any issue in science and mathematics is the polarity between discrete and continuous. The details change from century to century, but a synthesis still challenges us. In this talk I will comment on some of the long history and current state of interplay between these two ways of thinking.”

The public is welcome.

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In Print – Pinelis

Published March 19, 2015

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Professor Iosif Pinelis (Math) published a paper, “Exact Bounds on the Closeness Between the Student and Standard Normal Distributions,” in the journal Probability and Statistics, 2015, 19, 24-27. The abstract is available. A preliminary version of this article is available as well.

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In Print – Pinelis

Published March 19, 2015

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Professor Iosif Pinelis (Math) published a paper, “Monotone Tail and Moment Ratio Properties of Student’s Family of Distributions”, in Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Vol. 24 (2015), No. 1, 74-79.

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GSG Award Winners – Mathematical Sciences

Published February 27, 2015

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The Graduate School and Graduate Student Government proudly announce the 2014-2015 academic year winners (see Tech Today for all winners).

Shuaimin Kang (MS candidate, Applied Mathematics) and Rachel Rupnow (MS candidate, Pure Mathematics) received the Outstanding Scholarship Award recognizing academic performance in areas such as excellent GPA, originality in research, leadership and teamwork. Bryan Freyberg (PhD candidate, Discrete Mathematics) and Ethan Novak (PhD candidate, Discrete Mathematics) received the Outstanding Teaching Award recognizing graduate students who have exhibited exceptional ability as a teacher, have received excellent evaluations from students, as well as gaining the respect of faculty in their departments.

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R Software Presentation

Published February 27, 2015

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Assistant Professor Min Wang (Math) will conduct an introductory workshop on R software, “Introduction to the R Language: Computing for Data Analysis” today at 1 p.m. in Fisher 101. Faculty and students interested in learning more about this software are invited to attend.

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In Print – Zanello

Published February 17, 2015

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Associate Professor Fabrizio Zanello (Math) coauthored the following series of two papers with MIT undergraduate student Colin Sandon, “Warnaar’s Bijection and Colored Partition Identities, I,” in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 120 (2013), no. 1, 28-38; and “Warnaar’s Bijection and Colored Partition Identities, II,” in Ramanujan Journal 33 (2014), no. 1, 83-120.

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Proposals in Progress – February 11, 2015

Published February 13, 2015

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PI Saeid Nooshabadi (ECE/CCSR) and Co-PI Allan Struthers (Math/CCSR), “ARO Research Area 5: Computing Science: 5.1.1 Investigation Into the Heterogenous Parallel Architectures for the Efficient Implementation of Big Data Media Mining Application,” US Department of Defense

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SAS JMP Software Presentation

Published January 30, 2015

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Adjunct Professor Marty Smith (Math/Bio Med) will conduct a workshop on SAS JMP software today (January 30) at 1 p.m. in Fisher 101. Faculty and students interested in learning more about this statistical software are invited to attend.

Faculty Awarded Jackson Grants

Published January 28, 2015

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Due to a generous gift from William G. Jackson, the William G. Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is pleased to announce the 2015 grant recipients. Nearly $55,000 in grants were awarded to instructors and teams of instructors at $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 levels. These grants will support course/program reform or expansion projects using blended and online learning.

Lecturer Jason Gregersen and Associate Professors Todd King and Stefaan De Winter were awarded a $10,000-level grant for Extension of Blended Learning across the Calculus Sequence.

Ben Ong, Assistant Professor, was awarded a $1,000-level grant for Computational Science Models.

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Proposals in Progress, January 14, 2014

Published January 16, 2015

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PI Cecile Piret (Math), “A RBF-based Frame Strategy for Bypassing the Runge Phenomenon,” NSF

PI Zhengfu Xu (Math/CSERI) and Co-PIs Jingfeng Jiang (Bio Med/CSERI), Mark Gockenbach (Math/CSERI) and Sean Kirkpatrick (Bio Med/CSERI), “EDT: Enrich Doctoral Training in Applied Mathematics to Advance Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research and Career Development,” NSF

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