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.
Professor Iosif Pinelis (Math) published a paper, “Relationships Between the First Four Moments”, in the American Mathematical Monthly 122 (2015) 479–481, which is available to read online.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor Iosif Pinelis (Math) published a paper titled “Geometrically Convergent Sequences of Upper and Lower Bounds on the Wallis Ratio and Related Expressions” in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, 2015, vol. 18, number one. An abstract is available online.
