Several people from our department participated in the 2021 Virtual Section Meeting of the Louisiana / Mississippi Mathematical Association of America Section on Saturday 27 February 2021 and Saturday 6 March 2021.
Our math majors competed in the annual LA/MS MAA Conference competitions and did very well.
For the second year in a row, mathematics major Maxwell Reigner Kane was awarded 1st place in the student paper/presentation competition.
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Nicholas Henderson is the Fall 2020 Outstanding Graduate for the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences.
Professor Hayriye Gulbudak of our Department of Mathematics received a three year NSF grant with total funding of $240,000 from the National Science Foundation, Modeling Across-Scale Feedback of Pathogen Virulence, Host Immunity, and Disease Control.
Professors Cameron Browne and Hayriye Gulbudak of our Department of Mathematics received a nearly $200,000 from the National Science Foundation, Epidemiological and Phylogenetic Models for Contact-Based Control of COVID-19, to examine the effectiveness of social distancing and other measures that aim to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Our Cameron Browne is quoted in a recent WIRED article as follows:
“Contact tracing is giving you an idea about how many people are being infected, along with a control strategy to stop those people that you've tracked from infecting” others, said Cameron Browne, a mathematical biologist at the University of Louisiana studying the virus’s spread in China. “You need to know where these clusters of cases are coming from and how strong the transmission is going forward. So it is both a control and a surveillance.”
When Ted Ralph’s successful oilfield sales job ended suddenly during the downturn of the 1980s, he was in his late 20s, had a house mortgage and was left wondering, “what do I do with myself now?” Ralph wasn’t interested in a career in another industry. So, he opted to “gamble.” His hope was that the industry he loved would rebound while he earned a degree in petroleum engineering at UL Lafayette. “If you take no risks in life, you get nothing,” Ralph said of the decision. The strategy paid off, in part because Ralph fell back on the work ethic he had begun cultivating at age 13.
Five of Professor Vatsala's PhD students, four who have already graduated and one current student, got together at the 39th Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference On Differential Equations atEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida on 26-27 October 2019.
Here's a listing of the titles of their talks and their current affiliations.
A large group from our department attended the Louisiana Mississippi MAA Section Meeting at Loyola University in New Orleans on 27-29 February 2020.
