Graduate student Amanda Stenzelbarton is a recipient of the Spring 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, as announced by the department.
Mustafa Gezek and Samuel Judge are Fall 2015 recipients.
Graduate student Joseph Reath is a recipient of the Spring 2016 Graduate Student Service Award, as announced by the Graduate School.
A member of the Graduate Student Government and is nominated and voted on by that body of students and approved by the Dean. Nominated students have exhibited an outstanding contribution to graduate education at Michigan Tech.
Graduate students Chao (Chad) Liang and Adrian Pastine are recipients of the Spring 2016 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, as announced by the Graduate School.
This award goes to graduating graduate students nominated by their academic school or department for their academic achievements.
Jarret R. Dunn is a Fall 2015 recipient.
Vladimir Tonchev is the principal investigator on a research and development project titled “Combinatorial Designs, Error-Correcting Codes, and Finite Geometry,“ which was awarded a $39,998 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, National Security Agency. This is the first year of a potential two year project, totaling $79,501.
December 2, 2015—
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released its annual research spending report, and Michigan Tech has moved up in its rankings.
Of 634 institutions that received research funding in 2014, Tech received $68.5 million, ranking 163rd overall nationwide. The University ranked 117th among public institutions.
Mechanical engineering research at Tech received $13.1 million in research funding, ranking 19th in the nation. Atmospheric science — a new interdisciplinary category — received $3.1 million and ranked 34th.
14 Disciplines in Top 100
Fourteen disciplines at Michigan Tech ranked in the top 100 for research spending. They are atmospheric science (34th), business and management (76th), biomedical engineering (94th), chemical engineering (90th), civil engineering (89th), electrical engineering (62nd), environmental science (52nd), humanities (94th), mechanical engineering (19th), metallurgical and materials engineering (58th), mathematical sciences (88th), oceanography (56th), overall engineering (84th), and visual and performing arts (85th).
“The research funding environment is increasingly competitive, and our improvement in overall ranking, as well as the increases in last year’s funding that will impact future rankings, all indicate the exceptional efforts of our faculty, staff, and students,” said David Reed, vice president for research.
NSF ranks research activities by discipline, not by organizational structure, Reed pointed out, so the spending in some of Tech’s institutes and centers, such as the Michigan Tech Research Institute, the Keweenaw Research Center and the Great Lakes Research Center, are included with the appropriate academic departments rather than reported separately.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.
Iosif Pinelis published the paper “Rosenthal-Type Inequalities for Martingales in 2-Smooth Banach Spaces, in Theory of Probability & Its Applications,” Volume 59, Issue 4, 699-706. The abstract of the paper is available here.
The College of Sciences and Arts is pleased to announce the David House Endowed Professorship in Statistics, Data Mining, and Data Analytics for Kui Zhang. Professor Zhang, a new faculty member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, is pursuing methodological developments and seeking collaborations in statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and biostatistics.
David House is one of Michigan Tech’s leading strategic supporters. As department chair Mark Gockenbach has noted, “It is gratifying that Mr. House recognizes the importance of statistics and data science in today’s world. His support has been critical in helping Michigan Tech to move forward, and I am very grateful for his latest contribution to the university.”
Jiguang Sun received a $144,996 grant from the National Science Foundation for a research and development project titled, Finite Element Methods for High Order Eigenvalue Problems. This is a three-year project.
Iosif Pinelis published a paper, “Characteristic function of the positive part of a random variable and related results, with applications,” in Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 106 (2015), pp. 281-286.
Iosif Pinelis published two papers:
1. “Best possible bounds of the von Bahr–Esseen type”, in Annals of Functional Analysis, Volume 6, Number 4 (2015), 1–29. Read the abstract.
2. “On the Hölder and Cauchy–Schwarz Inequalities”, in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 122, No. 6, 593–595, which can be found and read on Mathematical Association of America’s website.