Doc Voorhies Endows Ross Chiquet Math Scholarship
(The following is the Office of Development article The Impact of Giving: Doc Voorhies.)
Bruce Wade Starts New Math Journal
Bruce Wade and three colleagues from Spain and Portugal have started a new rigorously peer-reviewed research journal, Analytical and Numerical Methods for Differential Equations and Applications. The journal is part of Frontiers ICT Open Science platform, providing free access and high visibility in various research topics.
Association for Women in Mathematics Welcome Tea
The mathematics department will be starting a student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). To kick off the student chapter, we will be hosting a tea on Wednesday, November 14th from 3:30 - 5 pm in Maxim Doucet room 201. If you are interested in participating in AWM or just want to learn more about AWM and women in mathematics, please stop by! We will briefly discuss our plans for the chapter and welcome any ideas you might have. We are also looking for student leaders to help run the chapter.
Local Screening of Documentary About Lafayette Artist and Amateur Mathematician
On Thursday, 13 September 2018 (at 7:30 pm) Lafayette based filmmakers Allison Bohl DeHart and Peter DeHart will be screening Bending Lines: The Sculpture of Robert Wiggs at Acadiana Center for the Arts. This film may be of particular interest to people interested in mathematics, science, or art! Within the documentary, the filmmakers interview the pure mathematician Norman W. Johnson to discuss the relationship between his work in mathematics and Wiggs' artwork.
Professor Awarded 3-year Board of Regents Grant
Professor Longfei Li was recently awarded a three-year grant from Board of Regents Support Fund (BoRSF) Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) with total funding of $178,131. This funding will support Professor Li's research project titled "High-Order Computational Methods for Beams and Plates with Applications to Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems." A brief description of the research can be found below.
Professor Receives Grant to Study Virus and Immune Response Networks
Professor Cameron Browne of our department was recently awarded a three year NSF grant with total funding of $219,641. The grant title is Dynamics and Evolution of Virus and Immune Response Networks. The brief description below is extracted from the grant abstract. For more details please visit the award page at this link.
Professor speaks at Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop
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.
Joy Mukerjee Receives NIH Career Award
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.
Statistics Alumnus Jamie Hebert is the new Provost
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.
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