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.