News 2022-23
Current news, events, and outreach page for the PFW Department of Mathematical Sciences
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John LaMaster, Senior Instructor, is featured in this PFW news article:
The ICTM State Math Contest 2023 was Saturday, April 22, 2023, 9:30am
Purdue FW is a local site, the testing room is in the Rhinehart Music Center on the north side of campus. Map and Parking PDF
Local Flyer PDF
Registration for high school students March 1 - 31 - more information at the ICTM web page
Update June 2023:
Congratulations to local participant Caleb Chen, 6th grader at Maple Creek Middle School who will receive an award at the State Math Contest Awards.
Retired Professor Art Finco passed away in April 2023.
He received his PhD from Purdue in 1965 and taught at IPFW for 37 years.
Prof. Drake Olejniczak published an op-ed column in the April 12, 2023, Journal Gazette, on "Graph theory helps solve problems of today - and tomorrow"
Congratulations to John LaMaster, on the 2022-2023 PFW Featured Faculty award for Teaching!
The Spring 2023 meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America was at Indiana University Kokomo, March 31-April 1.
The meeting includes the annual Indiana College Math Competition.
Laboratory of Data Science seminar:
John Dever, 3Rivers Federal Credit Union, Predicting loan default with time-varying covariates and imbalanced classes.
March 22, 2023
Nan Miles Xi & Angelos Vasilopoulos, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University Chicago, Leveraging Data Science Tools for Social Media and Biomedical Research: Predictive Models, Benchmarking, and Subsampling
5th April 2023
Benjamin Dattilo, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Extracting data from “fossilized shell sand”: can the petrographic analysis of limestones be automated?
18th April 2023
Data Hub Club event
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, On the hardness of cracking AES key
March 22, 2023.
College of Science's Honorary Invited Lecturer Series
IMPACT OF AI ON BIOLOGY RESEARCH
Dr. Daisuke Kihara, professor in both the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University West Lafayette.
NEFF HALL, ROOM 101. Mar. 21, 2023, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sponsored by the PFW Laboratory of Data Science with funding by the Indiana Data Mine.
Link to more information from the College of Science, including a link for virtual attendance
Data Science Seminar
Dr. Bimal Chandra Das, Department of Information Technology & Management, Daffodil International University (DIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Data communication technology using robust optimization technique.
joint with PFW departments of CS and ECE
March 20, 2023.
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Benign overfitting with retrieval augmented models
March 20, 2023.
After a few online-only years, the MathCounts 2023 middle school student event was on campus Feb. 11 - photo page
Data Science Week 2022 at Purdue Fort Wayne: November 28 - December 2.
register, submit short talk, or submit poster, by Nov. 25
For more information, contact Prof. Selvitella
Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Fall 2022
Bowen Liu, University of Nevada Las Vegas
A Generalized Family of Exponentiated Composite Distributions, November 22.
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Nazarbayev University
The Rediscovery Hypothesis Language Models Need to Meet Linguistics, November 28.
Zhongyuan Chen, Purdue University West Lafayette
Data-guided Statistical Methods for Treatment Recommendation, Dimension Reduction, and Beyond, December 2.
This short newspaper article from Prof. Francis appeared in the Dec. 5, 2022 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
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• MedPro Group, a Berkshire Hathaway company, hosted the Purdue University Fort Wayne Actuarial Club for a Nov. 18 event that allowed students to learn about the actuarial and data science careers available at the company. The students attended presentations on medical malpractice insurance and the challenges and opportunities in that field, culminating in a panel discussion with four actuaries and one data scientist sharing their expertise.
A new series Conversations on Science is presented by the PFW College of Science
Starting Nov. 9, including talks by Prof. Melville and Prof. Selvitella
The department and Professor Selvitella are launching the Laboratory of Data Science
Seminar series starting Nov. 2022
Job opportunities for students!
The Fall 2022 meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America was at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Oct. 22.
Professor Olejniczak and PFW student R. Moser presented research posters
Professor Coffman gave a short talk
The 2022 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis was here on the PFW campus
Fri.-Sun. Oct. 7-9
Poster PDF
Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Professors Coffman, Dragnev, and Legg are the local organizers. Professor Zhang gave a talk.
The local information page has links to videos and slides from some talks
Congratulations to Yihao Deng, Mathematical Sciences, and Naomi Gurevich, Communication Sciences and Disorders, on the 2022 Pippert Science Research Awards! The awards were presented by Professor Emeritus Ray Pippert at the Oct. 3, 2022, College of Science convocation.
Photo from the Sept. 30, 2022 Journal Gazette
Representatives of The Data Mine from Purdue West Lafayette visited Professor Deng's class and the Purdue Fort Wayne College of Science Dean, Sept. 9, 2022. Photo page
The 2022 Fort Wayne Actuarial Picnic was on campus, Sept. 9.
Welcome to new Assistant Professor Matthew Melville!
Welcome to new Assistant Professor Hanan Alyami in the PFW School of Education - she is a mathematical sciences alumna and was previously a teaching assistant. She may teach some mathematics education courses in our department.
The new pfw.edu/math web site is online! Much of the content of the old site has been archived here on this Google Site.
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