News 2018-2019

News, events, and outreach archive for the PFW Department of Mathematical Sciences

(most recent at top)

In May 2019, Professor Peter Dragnev joined Peter Boyvalenkov, Ed Saff, and Maya Stoyanova at the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics in Germany.

Congratulations to John LaMaster, on the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America! Citation PDF - - Photo page from the April 2019 Indiana MAA meeting - also attended by Professors Beineke, Coroian, Pan, and Weakley, and a team of undergraduate students participating in the Indiana College Math Competition

MathCounts Feb. 9, 2019. Photos

Math Colloquium and Seminar Talks Spring/Summer 2019: photo and abstract page

Welcome to Dr. Shaoyu Dai, visiting researcher for Spring and Fall 2019.

Professors Coffman, Legg, and Pan attended the Central Section meeting of the American Mathematical Society at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Oct. 20-21, 2018.

COLLOQUIUM - Fall 2018

Alessandro Selvitella, University of Ottawa, Machine Learning Methods Applied to the Medical Sciences, Nov. 20. Abstract PDF
Jiaying Weng, University of Kentucky, Analysis of Survey Data: Novel Strategy Via Dimension Reduction, Nov. 19. Abstract PDF
Leila Setayeshgar, Providence College, Bayes' Rule and the Law, Nov. 15. Abstract PDF
Ramón Orive, Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain): Probability, Interpolation, and Game Theory: Estimating the Parameter of a Biased Coin. Nov. 14. (joint event with PI Math Club and PFW Actuarial Club). Photo page
Peter Boyvalenkov, Second level universal bounds for energy and size of spherical codes: the Levenshtein framework lifted. Oct. 24. Abstract PDF

Professors Coffman and Dragnev were two of the co-organizers for the 2018 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington October 5–7. Alan Legg, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, gave an invited talk, Quadrature Domains and Equilibrium on the Sphere.

The 2018 Midwest Graph Theory Conference - MIGHTY LX - was at PFW Sept. 28-29.

Jeong-il Cho, assistant professor of education; Yihao Deng, associate professor of math; Kawther Hamash, assistant professor of nursing; Koichiro Otani, professor of public policy; and Nila Reimer, assistant professor of nursing presented the study Data-Driven Approach to Identify Influential Factors of Student Evaluations of Teaching in a University Nursing Program on September 22 at the Alumni Center. News Blog Entry

Professor Dragnev welcomes Visiting Professor Peter Boyvalenkov at a college assembly, Sept. 24, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Frank Paladino, Department of Biology, on the 2018 Pippert Science Research Award

Purdue Fort Wayne Actuarial Picnic - Aug. 31, 2018.

Flyer PDF
Photo page

Mathematical Sciences display case, August 2018