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.
Professor Iosif Pinelis published a paper, “On a Multidimensional Spherically Invariant Extension of the Rademacher-Gaussian Comparison“, in the Electronic Communications in Probability 2016.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Iosif Pinelis presented, “Exact Rosenthal-type bounds”, at the European Meeting of Statisticians held in Amsterdam last week. The talk was based on the paper with the same title.
Pinelis also organized and chaired the session, “Inequalities and Extremal Problems in Probability and Statistics” at this meeting.
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.