Fall 2020 College of Sciences Outstanding Graduate
Nicholas Henderson is the Fall 2020 Outstanding Graduate for the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences.
Math Professor Receives Disease Modeling Research Grant
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.
Math professors receive funding to formulate models that may offer clearer picture of COVID-19’s spread
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.
In the news - Cameron Browne quoted
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.”
T.H. Ralph/BoRSF Endowed Chair in Mathematics
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.
An Applied Math Student Reunion
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.
Winners at the LA MS MAA Meeting
A large group from our department attended the Louisiana Mississippi MAA Section Meeting at Loyola University in New Orleans on 27-29 February 2020.
Student earns best poster honors at SIAM meeting!
Mathematics graduate student Duong T. A. Nguyen was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the SIAM Texas Louisiana Section. The meeting was held at Southern Methodist University on November 1-3, 2019.
Math Club Solution Published!
The UL Lafayette Math Club has a solution published in the latest issue (May 2019) of the College Mathematics Journal. The solution, for problem 1130: A sequence of triangles begins on page 229 of the College Mathematics Journal: Problems and Solutions (volume 50, issue 3, 2019)
In addition to this published solution, our math club received credit for solving two additional problems in this issue!
2019 Lloyd Roeling Statistics Conference
25-26 October 2019
Lafayette, Louisiana
The conference will provide an opportunity for researchers and students in statistics and related fields to come together, present their research, and learn from each other. Cross-disciplinary and applied paper submissions are especially welcome. The conference will begin on Friday afternoon and continue through Saturday. The program will consist of invited and contributed talks. We welcome all participants and encourage everyone so inclined to present a talk. Dinner will be provided for all participants on Friday evening.
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