News 2021-22

Starting July 2021, the PFW College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) has split into two colleges. The Department of Mathematical Sciences is part of the new College of Science. This may affect degree requirements for future/incoming math majors.

Professor Selvitella is co-organizing the 2nd Workshop in Mathematical and Computational Biology, June 9-10, 2022.

• Web site

Purdue Fort Wayne program named among the best for preparing future elementary educators to teach math

Congratulations to the PFW School of Education, and Mathematical Sciences faculty (Berry, Hersberger, Mau, McGlennan, Sutherland, Wagner) on this recognition from the National Council on Teacher Quality!

• PFW News Release, May 17, 2022

• Interview with Inside Indiana Business - YouTube video

Congratulations to Chip Vandell and Jim Hersberger, on retirement in 2022

Professors Coffman, Pan, and Zhang attended the Midwest Several Complex Variables conference at Notre Dame, April 29-May 1, 2022.

• Conference web site

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Purdue Fort Wayne is hosting a regional site for the Indiana State Math Contest

• Saturday, April 23, 2022, 9:00 am in Kettler Hall

• Flyer (PDF) with more information about the test (mostly high school level)

• Online registration site: www.ictm.onefireplace.org/mathcontest

• organized by the Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM)

• Local PFW contact: Cindy Vanderlaan

The Spring 2022 meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America was held at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, April 9.

• Professors Selvitella and Olejniczak each gave a short talk. Professors Coffman and Dragnev also attended, and a 3-student team participated in the Indiana College Math Competition.

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Colloquium talks on Mathematics Education:

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• Tuesday, March 15. Ayse Ozturk, The Ohio State University, Newark

• Thursday, March 3. Weverton Pineiro, Indiana University

• Thursday, Feb. 24. Hanan Alyami, Purdue University

• Tuesday, Feb. 22. Matthew Melville, University of Delaware

Colloquium: Alexis Byers, Youngstown State University, A Colorful Introduction to Graph Theory.

• Friday, Feb. 25. Flyer: PDF

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News Release from PFW: Purdue Fort Wayne introduces fully online option for master's degree in mathematics
Jan. 25, 2022.

The department has published the Fall 2021 issue of its occasional alumni newsletter, Within Epsilon.

Data Science Week 2021

The third annual Data Science Week took place at Purdue University Fort Wayne online from November 29th to December 3rd 2021.

• Here is the website of the meeting: https://sites.google.com/view/data-science-week-2021/home

• The event featured posters and short talks by students and researchers, a panel discussion, and keynote speakers live on WebEx.

• Events for students in coordination with the Data Hub Club, a new student organization.

Congratulations to Drake Olejniczak on being awarded a Summer 2022 PFW research grant, on The Down Arrow Ramsey Set of a Graph.

The Fall 2021 meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America was held online, Sept. 25.

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The Purdue University system has received a grant from the Lilly Endowment to launch the "Indiana Digital Crossroads" data science initiative. Fort Wayne is a regional hub, led by the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

• Web site for the Purdue Fort Wayne Indiana Data Mine

• Current IDM Seminars page

• Photo page from March 2 Data Science seminar by Dr. Josh Pan

Professor Selvitella and Kathleen Foster, Ball State, have received grant funding as Pilot Project Investigators, for their project, Quantify how morphology and locomotor biomechanics change during growth. This project is supported by the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University.

• Web site for The Mathematical Laws of Morphology and Biomechanics

Fall 2021 Analysis Seminar.

Mondays or Wednesdays at 11:00

• Y. Pan, On construction of W^{1,1} functions from any real analytic function. Sept. 13.

• Y. Pan, A Poincare Lemma for square integrable forms in R^n. Aug. 30.