News 2019-20
News, events, and outreach archive page for the PFW Department of Mathematical Sciences
Many Spring 2020 events on the PFW campus were canceled or rescheduled due to the COVID-19 public health crisis and the shift to online instruction for all PFW courses.
The May 2020 Department meeting was held online via WebEx.
A toast at the end marked the upcoming retirement of Prof. Lowell Beineke, Prof. Sue Mau, and Mrs. Sheila McFarland.
Congratulations to Mathematical Sciences faculty on winning two awards from the Fort Wayne Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society!
Fort Wayne Chapter Sigma Xi 2020 College Science Teacher of the Year: Dan Yorgov
Fort Wayne Chapter Sigma Xi 2020 Researcher of the Year: Alessandro Selvitella
Math competitions:
The ICTM high school state math competition is Saturday, April 18, 2020.
This event has been canceled
The Indiana College Mathematics Competition is Friday afternoon, April 3, 2020, in Indianapolis, as part of the Spring Meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
This event has been canceled.
MATHCOUNTS middle school event at PFW, in the Walb classic ballroom, Feb. 8, 2020.
Spring 2020 Data Science Seminar
Data Science and Machine Learning Seminar Web page with schedule and flyers
Amal Khalifa, PFW Computer Science, Deep Steganography, Feb. 20. Flyer PDF
Justin Asher, PFW student, The Brain Age Problem, Feb. 14. Flyer PDF
A. Selvitella, Introduction to Deep Learning, Feb. 4. Flyer PDF
Spring 2020 Analysis Seminar
Martino Fassina, University of Illinois U-C, On Beloshapka's uniqueness theorem, Feb. 19.
Y. Pan, A sharp Łojasiewicz inequality for holomorphic functions, Feb. 5
During the week of January 13-18, 2020, Professors Dragnev, Olejniczak, and Zhang attended the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Denver.
Peter Dragnev gave a talk, "Log-optimal (d+2)-configurations in d-dimensions" in the American Mathematical Society Special Session on Frames, Designs, and Optimal Spherical Configurations.
Yuan Zhang gave a talk, "Hölder solutions to the ∂-bar problem on product domains in Cn," in the Women in Several Complex Variables workshop organized by the Association for Women in Mathematics
(Yuan Zhang is in the center of this photo from the AWM web site)
Mr. By Hey was a limited-term-lecturer in Mathematical Sciences at IPFW for many years.
Honors Program Showcase: presentation by Honors student Elliot Nesler, Euchre: a Probability Based Strategy Guide, Dec. 13, 2019.
Flyer PDF
Data Science Week at Purdue Fort Wayne
Dec. 4-6, 2019
Keynote address, Dr. Bo Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Climate, Health, and Statistics, Dec. 5.
Colloquium: Ziming Shi, University of Wisconsin, How “Sharp” is the Łojasiewicz Gradient Inequality? Nov. 25.
Professors Peter Dragnev and Dan Coroian welcome prospective math majors at the PFW Campus Visit day, Oct. 27, 2019.
The 2019 PFW College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Series: Ed Saff, Vanderbilt University, From Analog to Digital or How to Make the "Perfect" Poppy-Seed Bagel. Oct. 24.
Fall 2019 Analysis seminar: Yifei Pan, Critical points vs. zeros for C1 smooth functions, and applications to several complex variables and algebraic geometry. Parts 1 & 2: Oct. 23 & 30.
Professors Adam Coffman, Yifei Pan, and Yuan Zhang attended the 2019 Midwest Several Complex Variables conference at the University of Michigan - Dearborn, October 11-13. Professor Pan presented a research poster. Photo album
Congratulations to our Mastodon Student Team on placing 2nd in a data science competition, the Healthy Mom + Baby Datapalooza!
More information on the 2019-2020 Student Awards Page
The 2019 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis at PFW: Oct. 4-6. Professor Peter Dragnev and Professor Adam Coffman are co-organizers.
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Congratulations to Professor Yifei Pan, and to Jordan Marshall, Biology, on the 2019 Pippert Science Research Awards! Photo page from Sept. 23, 2019.
Colloquium: Xin Dong, University of California, Irvine, Bergman Metric and Cauchy-Riemann Equations, Sept. 16, 2019. Poster with abstract
Five PFW mathematical sciences faculty attended the American Mathematical Society conference at the University of Wisconsin, Sept. 14-15, 2019. photo album
Purdue Fort Wayne Actuarial Picnic - Sept. 6, 2019. Flyer PDF
Welcome to new faculty for 2019-2020:
Alessandro Selvitella, Assistant Professor
Drake Olejniczak, Visiting Assistant Professor
Melissa Sutherland, Visiting Instructor
Professors Lowell Beineke and Adam Coffman attended MathFest 2019, the annual summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, in Cincinnati, July 31-Aug. 3. The annual meeting of the national mathematics honor society Pi Mu Epsilon was held in conjunction with MathFest, and as its Advisor, Prof. Beineke represented the PFW Chapter. Photo album