| Department of Mathematics

Good news from the MAA sectional meeting!

A large group from our department attended the Louisiana Mississippi MAA Section Meeting at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches on 3-5 March 2022.

$UL Lafayette group at MAA Spring 2022 meeting$

Professor Birkenmeier is working with a team of researchers in Turkey

Emeritus Professor Gary F. Birkenmeier is working with a six person (including Dr. Birkenmeier) research team in Turkey sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tubitak). The team consists of: Dr. Gary F. Birkenmeier, Dr. Nayil Kilic, Dr. Figen Takil Mutulu, Ms. Edanur Tastan, Dr. Adnan Tercan, and Dr. Ramazan Yasar. The three-year grant was obtained by Dr. Figen Takil Mutulu to study Nearrings which satisfy Baer annihilator conditions and/or extending conditions.

SIAM sectional meeting news

Our applied mathematics group was well represented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section on November 5-7, 2021 at South Padre Island, Texas. Bruce Wade and Joshua Caleb Macdonald organized minisymposia (special sessions). Bruce Wade, Joshua Caleb Macdonald, Cameron Browne, Hayriye Gulbudak, and Amy Veprauskas presented talks. Details are given below.

Mathematics instructors publish a new mathematics of finance textbook

Our mathematics instructors Allison Cointot and Christy Sue Langley have published a mathematics of finance textbook. Their e-book is Mathematics of Finance: An Algebraic Approach, Great River Learning, (2021), ISBN: 9781644967928.

Mathematics graduate Björn Guðjónsson honored

ICMA-VIII funding request form

International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems

October 28-30, 2022

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

There are two or three parts to the request for funding

Email address *

Please enter your email address.

Name *

Please enter your full name.

Affiliation

Please enter your affiliation (College/University, Company, Organization, other). Include organization name and department or division name as appropriate.

Title of your talk or poster presentation *

Please enter the title of your talk or poster presentation.

Citizenship status *

Please indicate your citizenship status by checking the appropriate choice. If you are not a US citizen or permanent resident, please check other and provide your country of residence and visa status on the next line.

US citizen

Permanent resident

Other (please check here and enter country of citizenship and visa status in the space below)

Country of residence and visa status

If you are not a US citizen or permanent resident, please check other on the form line above and provide your country of residence and visa status here.

Years in graduate program or year degree was granted *

Please indicate the number of years you have been enrolled in your graduate program or the year in which you received your graduate degree. Please enter zero if you are an undergraduate student.

Amount requested for lodging *

Please indicate the amount you are requesting for lodging, not to exceed $115 ($78 for a student) per night for up to three nights (including taxes and fees).

Student roommate request

Students are expected to share a room. If you have a preferred roommate, please enter their name and email address here.

Amount requested for travel *

Please indicate the amount you are requesting for travel, not to exceed $640.

Mode of travel *

Please indicate your expected mode of transportation to Lafayette and the city you are departing from.

Arrival date *

Please enter your arrival date.

Departure date *

Please enter your departure date.

Availability of other sources of travel funding *

Please indicate whether you have other sources of travel funding. If you do have another source of funding please describe the source and amount of this funding in the space on the next line.

I do not have any other source of travel funding.

I have limited travel funding and am only asking for partial support.

Amount and source of partial travel funding

If you indicated that you have limited travel funding on the line above, please describe your amount and source of travel funding here.

Date when I emailed my CV *

Please enter the date when you emailed your CV to ICMA2022@louisiana.edu.

Confirmation of request for recommendation letter *

If you are a student, please confirm that (1) you have asked your advisor to send a letter of recommendation to ICMA2022@louisiana.edu and (2) you understand that it is your responsibility to ensure that your advisor emails the letter of recommendation. If you are not a student, please select that option here.

(student) I have asked my advisor to send a letter of recommendation to ICMA2022@louisiana.edu and I understand that it is my responsibility to ensure that my advisor emails the letter of recommendation.

I am not a student.

Leave this field blank

ICMA-VIII abstract submission form

International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems

October 28-30, 2022

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

There is a LaTeX template on the abstract submission webpage. When you are ready to submit your abstract, please complete this form and email your abstract (as a LaTeX source file attachment) to us at ICMA2022@louisiana.edu.

Email address *

Please enter your email address.

Name *

Please enter your full name.

Affiliation *

Please enter your affiliation (College/University, Company, Organization, other). Include organization name and department or division name as appropriate.

Title of your talk or poster presentation. *

Please enter the title of your talk or poster presentation.

Preferred presentation type *

Please select your preferred presentation type (talk, poster, no preference).

I prefer to give a talk

I prefer to give a poster presentation

I do not have a preference (talk or poster)

Date when I emailed my abstract. *

Please indicate the date (and approximate time) when you submitted your abstract (in LaTeX source file form) to ICMA2022@louisiana.edu

Leave this field blank

ICMA-VIII registration form

International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems

October 28-30, 2022

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

Name *

Please enter your full name (first name then last name)

Title (optional)

Please enter your preferred title, e.g. Dr., Professor, Mr., Mrs., Ms.

Badge name (for name tag) *

Enter your preferred badge name "nickname" (for your name tag).

Pronouns (optional)

If you wish, please provide your pronouns. (If provided this will be put on your name tag.)

Email address *

Please enter your email address.

Affiliation *

Please enter your affiliation (College/University, Company, Organization, other). Include organization name and department or division name as appropriate.

Mailing address *

Please enter your mailing address. Save the city and state/province information for the following text area.

City *

Please enter the name of your city.

State/Province *

Please enter your state or province.

Zip code/Postal code *

Please enter your zip or postal code (write none if not applicable).

Country *

Please enter the name of your country.

Telephone number *

Please enter your telephone number (include country code for non USA/Canada numbers).

Attendee profile *

Please indicate the option which best describes your current position.

Are you giving a talk? *

Please indicate whether you are giving a talk.

yes

no

Are you presenting a poster? *

Please indicate whether you are presenting a poster.

yes

no

Time and date of arrival (optional)

Please provide your (estimated) arrival time and date.

Time and date of departure (optional)

Please provide your (estimated) departure time and date.

Ethnicity (optional, used for reporting purposes only)

Please enter your ethnicity. Select all that apply. Optional, used for reporting purposes only.

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Black or African American

Hispanic or Latino

Middle Eastern or North African

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

White

Other race, ethnicity, or origin

Gender (optional, used for reporting purposes only)

Optional, used for reporting purposes only. Please indicate your gender. You may select more than one option.

Male

Female

Prefer not to share

I am writing my gender in the space provided below

Gender description (optional, used for reporting purposes only)

If none of the options above were appropriate, please supply gender here.

Dietary restrictions (optional)

If you have any dietary restrictions, please describe them.

Special requests or needs (optional)

If you have any special requests or needs, please describe them.

Leave this field blank

Caleb Macdonald earns praise for presentation

Mathematics graduate student Joshua Caleb Macdonald received special recognition for his contributed presentation, Modeling COVID-19 outbreaks in United States with distinct testing, lockdown speed and fatigue rates, to the Mathematical Epidemiology section of the 2021 Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting. The meeting, organized by the University of California, Riverside, was held virtually on June 13 - 17, 2021.

Undergraduate research activities

Many of our undergraduate mathematics majors are conducting academic research. A few recent examples are described below.

During Fall 2020 our undergraduate mathematics major Maxwell Lovig completed a research project Tick population modeling under the direction of Ross Chiquet and Amy Veprauskas.

During Fall 2020 our undergraduate mathematics majors Maddie Angerdina and Ian Bonin completed a research project Dynamics of a smallmouth bass populations with harvesting under the direction of Ross Chiquet and Amy Veprauskas.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette