New Funding

Published May 23, 2017

Research

$image94446-pers$ Min Wang is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is titled, “Bayesian Inference in Statistics and Statistical Genetics.” This is a one-year project.

Math Students Present at Undergrad Research Symposium

Published March 24, 2017

By Heather Powers

The Undergraduate Research Symposium highlights the amazing cutting-edge research being conducted on Michigan Tech’s campus by some of our best and brightest undergraduate students.

The students showcasing their work today have spent a significant portion of the past year working alongside Michigan Tech faculty and graduate students to explore, discover and create new knowledge. They’ve spent long hours in the lab or out in the field designing experiments, gathering data, creating new models and testing hypotheses. They’ve applied their classroom knowledge in new and sometimes unexpected ways, and developed new skills that will propel them forward in their careers.

Anthony Marcich – Applied and Computational Mathematics

Title: Preliminary Work for Autochrome Photograph Reconstruction: Scanning and Processing Design
Advisor: Dr. Cecile Piret
Overview: Marcich goal is to use Radial Basis Functions methods (RBF) to construct smooth and accurate images from scans of these photographs. Their investigation of RBF requires processing scanned photos into nodes. They then described the initial scanning and processing work necessary to obtain these nodes.

E. Yasmine Walton-Durst – Mathematics

Title: Rayleigh–Bénard Convection in Michigan Tech’s Cloud Chamber – A Statistical Analysis of High Frequency Temperature Fluctuations
Advisor: Dr. Will Cantrell
Overview: Walton-Durst used time series analysis and other statistical methods to identify trends in temperature fluctuations from a second to several minutes. We hypothesize that data from the temperature sensors can provide a signature of the characteristic fluid movement within the chamber.

Madison Heeringa – Acutarial Science Mathematics

Title: Finding Structure in Data
Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Ong
Overview: Heeringa’s goal is to learn about and understand PCA and multi-scale PCA. Which will eventually be used to classify land and canopy cover in satellite images.

In Print

Published March 7, 2017

By Heather Powers

$MIA_logo_math$ Iosif Pinelis published the paper “An Involution Inequality for the Kullback-Leibler Divergence,” in Math Inequal Appl 20 (2017).

Mathematical Sciences research ranked in the top 100 nationwide

Published January 20, 2017

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In the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) latest rankings of universities by total research expenditures, Michigan Tech ranked 116th in the nation among public institutions and Tech’s atmospheric science and oceanography research ranked first in Michigan.

Nationally, atmospheric science research at Michigan Tech ranked 39th in research expenditures and oceanography ranked 53rd. Environmental science also ranked 53rd. Tech’s mechanical engineering research ranked 23rd in the nation, the highest ranking of all research fields at the University.

“Michigan Tech has been growing our capabilities in environmental science through our faculty hiring processes like the strategic faculty hiring initiative, our facility development efforts like the Great Lakes Research Center and in our equipment investments such as the cloud chamber in the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute,” said Dave Reed, vice president for research. “NSF’s report reflects the impact of those investments and the significant research role that Michigan Tech is playing both nationally and within Michigan.”

The NSF report covered fiscal year 2015.

Other research areas at Tech that ranked in the top 100 nationwide include:

Biomedical engineering, 96th
Chemical engineering, 98th
Civil engineering, 92nd
Electrical engineering, 55th
Mechanical engineering, 23rd
Materials science and engineering, 61st
Mathematical sciences, 75th
Business and management, 73rd
Humanities, 98th
Visual and performing arts, 85th

The NSF report showed that research expenditures at Michigan Tech totaled $69.6 million for fiscal year 2015.

In Print

Published November 29, 2016

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Professor Iosif Pinelis published the paper “Convex Cones of Generalized Multiply Monotone Functions and the Dual Cones” in Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis, Volume 10, Number 4 (2016), 864–897. The abstract is available online.

Pinelis also published a paper, “Contrast Between Populations Versus Spread within Populations,” in Statistics and Probability Letters 121 (2017) 99–100. It is available until December 22, 2016 here.

New Funding

Published October 10, 2016

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$image151814-pers$ Qiuying Sha (Math/LSTI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $436,873 research grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health.

Shuanglin Zhang (Math) is the Co-PI on the project “Statistical Methods for Rare Variant Association Studies.”

This is a three-year project.

REF Award for Piret and Yang

Published October 10, 2016

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Research Excellence Fund (REF) Awards Announced

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The Vice President for Research Office announces the 2016 REF awards and thanks the review committees, the deans and department chairs for their time spent on this important internal research award process.

Cécile Piret, pictured left, received a Research Seed Grant.

Yang Yang, pictured right, received a Scholarship and Creativity Grant.

Pinelis Published in Electronic Communications in Probability

Published October 1, 2016

By Heather Powers

Professor Iosif Pinelis published a paper, “On a Multidimensional Spherically Invariant Extension of the Rademacher-Gaussian Comparison“, in the Electronic Communications in Probability 2016.

Pinelis publishes in Journal of Theoretical Probability

Published September 2, 2016

By Heather Powers

$3$ Iosif Pinelis published a paper, “Positive-part moments via characteristic functions, and more general expressions“, on August 30th in Journal of Theoretical Probability, Online First.

Michigan Tech Rises in NSF Research Expenditure Rankings

Published February 15, 2016

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Research

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 19^th in the nation. Atmospheric science — a new interdisciplinary category — received $3.1 million and ranked 34^th.

14 Disciplines in Top 100

Fourteen disciplines at Michigan Tech ranked in the top 100 for research spending. They are atmospheric science (34^th), business and management (76^th), biomedical engineering (94^th), chemical engineering (90^th), civil engineering (89^th), electrical engineering (62^nd), environmental science (52^nd), humanities (94^th), mechanical engineering (19^th), metallurgical and materials engineering (58^th), mathematical sciences (88^th), oceanography (56^th), overall engineering (84^th), and visual and performing arts (85^th).

“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.

From Tech Today

Category: Research

Anthony Marcich – Applied and Computational Mathematics

E. Yasmine Walton-Durst – Mathematics

Madison Heeringa – Acutarial Science Mathematics

Research Excellence Fund (REF) Awards Announced

14 Disciplines in Top 100