Mathematical Sciences Blog

David House Endowed Professorship for Kui Zhang

Published September 17, 2015

The College of Sciences and Arts is pleased to announce the David House Endowed Professorship in Statistics, Data Mining, and Data Analytics for Kui Zhang. Professor Zhang, a new faculty member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, is pursuing methodological developments and seeking collaborations in statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and biostatistics.

David House is one of Michigan Tech’s leading strategic supporters. As department chair Mark Gockenbach has noted, “It is gratifying that Mr. House recognizes the importance of statistics and data science in today’s world. His support has been critical in helping Michigan Tech to move forward, and I am very grateful for his latest contribution to the university.”

New Funding – Jiguang Sun

Published August 17, 2015

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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.

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In Print – Iosif Pinelis

Published August 13, 2015

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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.

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In Print – Iosif Pinelis

Published July 16, 2015

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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.

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On the Road – Iosif Pinelis

Published July 16, 2015

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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.

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Gorgin receives the MAGS Excellence in Teaching Award

Published June 12, 2015

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The Midwestern Association of Graduate School annually solicits for the Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of graduate students who exemplify excellence in the teaching/learning mission of the member universities.

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Elaheh Gorgin, PhD Candidate in Mathematical Sciences

Photographs and details of awards and fellowships coordinated by the Graduate School. For a complete list of award and fellowship winners

In Print – Pinelis

Published May 27, 2015

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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.

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New Funding – Tonchev

Published May 19, 2015

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Vladimir Tonchev from the mathematical sciences department received a $15,000 research & development grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications.

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In Print – Pinelis

Published May 19, 2015

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Professor Iosif Pinelis (Math) published Exact Upper and Lower Bounds on The Difference Between The Arithmetic and Geometric Means, on Cambridge Journals Online Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, first view;

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Nick Trefethen to Speak at Michigan Tech

Published May 19, 2015

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Nick Trefethen of Oxford University will deliver a lecture
“Discrete or Continuous?” at 5:05 p.m. on Monday, April 27, in Fisher 325.

Trefethen has received many honors for this research in Numerical Analysis:

Fellow of the Royal Society
Member of the National Academy of Engineering
The Gold Medal from the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (UK)
The Naylor Prize from the London Mathematical Society

He is past-president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and he has the distinction of being the first customer to buy a copy of Matlab.

Trefethen describes his talk as follows: “As old as any issue in science and mathematics is the polarity between discrete and continuous. The details change from century to century, but a synthesis still challenges us. In this talk I will comment on some of the long history and current state of interplay between these two ways of thinking.”

The public is welcome.

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