Iosif Pinelis published the paper “An Involution Inequality for the Kullback-Leibler Divergence,” in Math Inequal Appl 20 (2017).
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:
The NSF report showed that research expenditures at Michigan Tech totaled $69.6 million for fiscal year 2015.
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.
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.
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.