Professor Hayriye Gulbudak of our department was one of the invited speakers at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) Emphasis Workshop: Disease Ecology and Eco-epidemiology on March 26-30, 2018. Her talk, Modeling Avian Influenza and Control Strategies in Poultry, covered mathematical models of avian influenza in poultry which incorporate culling and vaccination.
Our alumnus Shubhabrata (Joy) Mukherjee, PhD, a research assistant professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, has received a prestigious NIH Research Career Development Award (K25 award). This is a 5-year (approximately $652,000) award which has training and research components. More information about the award "Molecular Mechanisms Of Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathological Endophenotypes" is available here.
Dr. Jaimie L. Hebert has been named provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. An Abbeville, La., native, Hebert holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate – all in statistics – from UL Lafayette. He received his bachelor’s in 1986, master’s in 1988 and doctorate in 1990. He was most recently president of Georgia Southern University. In that role, he led the University System of Georgia’s consolidation of Georgia Southern University with Armstrong State University.
April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. This is a time to increase understanding and appreciation of mathematics and statistics. Please join us for a special nontechnical lecture Life After a Mathematics Degree, by Dr. Bobby J. Prochaska.
Our department was very successful in the competitions at the 2018 Louisiana/Mississippi Mathematical Association of America Section Meeting which we hosted this weekend.
One of our student teams placed second overall in the student team competition. The team, Cody Nash, Alex Fontenot, Grace Sternamen, and Lance Myers, was coached by Dr. Ross Chiquet. Dr. George Turcu, Blaise Heider, and Tommy Credeur also helped the team prepare for the competition.
Professor Aghalaya Vatsala of our department conducted a weeklong course on Generalized Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, (Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India). This invited course was funded by a grant from the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) (with funding from the Indian Ministry of Human Resources Development) and hosted by Professor Anthony Vijesh of the department of mathematics, IIT, Indore.
Please join us in congratulating our Fall 2017 undergraduate mathematics graduates. Pictured with Ross Chiquet are (from left): John Courville, Delvin Tilley, Ragnar Gardarsson, Caitlyn Broussard, Pablo Rojas, Daniel Huval, Cody Maddux, Steven Ryder, and Sadie Doucet. Graduates not pictured: Alex Stewart and Shelly Boulet (summer graduate). Click on the photo to enlarge.
Daniel Davis helped organize the conference Homotopy theory: tools and applications, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 17-21, 2017. This conference was sponsored by National Science Foundation grant DMS-1719242, as well as the UIUC Department of Mathematics.
Please join us in congratulating our ten Spring 2017 undergraduate mathematics graduates. Pictured with Ross Chiquet and James Kimball are (from left): John Miller, Alyssa Bienvenu, Kevin Morgan, Lauren Eddy, Nicholas Pryfrom-Day, Marina Ledet, David Browning, Daniel Schexnider. Graduates not pictured: Bailey Ross and Fathi Derbel. Click on the photo to enlarge.
Alyssa Bienvenu is the Spring 2017 College of Sciences outstanding graduate!
A team of researchers from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who attended the city’s recent Mardi Gras King’s Parade wasn’t interested in catching beads or doubloons.
It was after data.
The group of four, which included students and postdoctoral researchers, fanned out along the parade route. The floats rolled from near the intersection of Jefferson, Surrey and Simcoe streets, and ended near Cajun Field. The researchers walked along the entire 4-mile route.
