News 2023-24
Current news, events, and outreach page for the PFW Department of Mathematical Sciences
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A new problem book based on the Indiana College Math Competition has been published by Springer Nature!
Editors: A. Coffman (PFW), J. Gash (Franklin College), R. Gillman (Valparaiso University), and J. Rickert (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
Book page at Springer The Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001-2023)
Available now in hardcover or ebook format - softcover coming in 2025. Sales will benefit future ICMC events and other student activities in Indiana
The problem sets from when the competition was hosted at IPFW in 2005 and 2014 were prepared by D. Coroian and M. Lipman
Available for short-term loan from the "Faculty Authors" bookshelf behind the front desk of PFW Helmke Library
MathFest 2024, the national meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, was in Indianapolis, Aug. 7-10
Professor Beineke, Professor Coffman, and three PFW students attended
Prof. Coffman's photo album
MAA photo album
Sue Mau, retired professor, is featured in this July 2024 PFW news article about her PFW summer camps for middle school and high school students
Congratulations to Prof. Hanan Alyami, on receiving the 2024 Leepoxy Plastics, Inc., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!
The Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, together with PFW University Research and Innovation, is offering statistical design consulting services for PFW faculty and students.
Summer I 2024 schedule: PDF
location: Helmke Library 248, the Student Research Hub
Analysis seminar: Liding Yao, the Ohio State University, The Cauchy-Riemann problem via extension operators
Friday, May 10
Spring 2024 Mathematical Sciences Colloquium:
Allan Bickle, Purdue University West Lafayette, Fractal Graphs
Tuesday, April 9, Noon to 1:00 in KT 146
Andrii Arman, University of Manitoba, On Covering Problems Related to Borsuk's Conjecture
Wednesday, April 17, Noon to 1:00 in KT 117
Jianping Pan, North Carolina State University, The Many Facets of Permutations
Thursday, April 25, Noon to 1:00 in KT 117.
College of Science Honorary Invited Lecturer: Guang Lin, Purdue University West Lafayette College of Science, How data science, AI, and digital twins could help us predict the future
Also sponsored by the PFW Laboratory of Data Science and the Indiana Data Mine
Thursday, April 25, 2024. 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm. Neff Hall 101
The graduate student seminar with "short" presentations continues for Spring 2024:
01/17/24 Matt Melville
02/07/24 AY Ajiboye
02/21/24 Yihao Deng
04/03/24 Naomi Gurevich, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The PFW Physics department is organizing a viewing event on campus for the 2024 solar eclipse
Monday, April 8, 1:00-4:30 between Kettler and the Science Building. The near-totality will be around 3:00.
The Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America had its Spring 2024 at Marian University, in Indianapolis
Friday-Saturday, April 5-6, including the annual Indiana College Mathematics Competition on Friday.
Professor Assylbekov presented a poster
web page: https://www.indiana.maa.org/meetings
Actuarial Science events for Spring 2024
Kenda Sanderson, MedPro Group, and PFW alumnus, with a presentation on Excel functions for actuarial science, March 20
Data Science events for Spring 2024: (all times USA Eastern time zone)
Tuesday, March 12: Weijie Sun, University of Alberta, Predicting Individual Survival Distributions using ECG: A Deep Learning Approach utilizing Features Extracted by a Learned Diagnostic Model
2:00 pm on WebEx ( https: // purdue.webex.com / meet / aselvite )
Abstract on PFW Laboratory of Data Science seminars page
Tuesday, March 12: Gabriel Chen, Hope College, On the Speed and Memory Scalability of Spectral Clustering
3:30 pm in Kettler G52 - also on WebEx
PFW Laboratory of Data Science seminars page
Abstract: Spectral clustering has emerged as a very effective clustering approach; however, it is computationally expensive when applied to large data sets. As a result, there has been considerable effort in the machine learning community to develop fast, approximate spectral clustering algorithms that are scalable in time and/or memory. Notably, most of those methods use a small set of landmark points selected from the given data. In this talk we present two landmark-based scalable spectral clustering algorithms that are developed based on novel document-term and bipartite graph models. We demonstrate their superior performance on some benchmark data sets. Finally, we also mention some recent work in the setting of massive data sets which cannot be fully loaded into computer memory.
Wednesday, March 13: Nina Atanasova, Cleveland State University, Policing Mental Illness on Social Media
Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, with the Laboratory of Data Science and the Data Hub Club
Spring 2024 Data Science talks Photo page
The 2024 MATHCOUNTS event was at PFW, Feb. 10.
The Purdue Fort Wayne College of Science was pleased to announce the two most recent recipients of the College of Science Beineke Medal in recognition for their outstanding contributions to the sciences. James Farlow, Biology Emeritus faculty member, and Carol Lawton, Professor and Chair of Psychology, were surprised with this honor at the College of Science Social held Friday, February 2, 2024. Named after retired math professor, Lowell Beineke, this award was established in 2012 by then Dean, Carl Drummond, who bestowed the first award to Lowell.
Pictured l-r are Dean Friedman, Vice Chancellor Drummond, Farlow, Lawton, and Beineke
Congratulations to Prof. Zhenisbek Assylbekov on receiving a PFW summer research grant, on "Benign Overfitting with Gaussian Mixture Models."
The Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, together with PFW University Research and Innovation, is offering statistical design consulting services for PFW faculty and students.
Spring 2024 schedule: PDF
location: Helmke Library 248, the Student Research Hub
Professor Yuan Zhang gave a talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, January 2024
Her talk, based on joint work with Prof. Yifei Pan, is in the special session on Geometric Analysis in Several Complex Variables
Professor Zhang's attendance at this conference is supported by a travel grant from the Association for Women in Mathematics and the National Science Foundation (DMS 2015440)
The Department of Mathematical Sciences appeared in two newspaper articles Dec. 9, 2023, in the Journal Gazette
PFW Data Science Week 2023
Nov. 27 - Dec. 1
Participant registration, including contributed short talks or posters, by Nov. 24
The graduate student seminar had a presentation by Professor Coffman on "The topology of two-dimensional surfaces", Nov. 1.
Video link (Kaltura, 42 min.)
The 2023 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis was Oct. 13-15 at IUPUI.
Professors Coffman and Legg are co-organizers - Professors Pan and Zhang also attended.
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Fall 2023 Mathematical Sciences Colloquium:
Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Hearing the shape of a drum with several complex variables ears
Oct. 12.
The Fall 2023 meeting of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America was at the University of Notre Dame ☘️ Oct. 7.
Professor Assylbekov presented a poster and Professor Coffman and several PFW students attended
The PFW College of Science fall 2023 convocation was October 2. New faculty and staff were introduced, and the 2023 Pippert Science Research Awards were given to Professor Ahmed Mustafa, Biological Sciences, and Professor Yuan Zhang, Mathematical Sciences
The PFW Laboratory of Data Science is organizing several events for October 2023
Prof. Selvitella, Oct. 3
Prof. Adolfo Coronado, Oct. 19
Prof. Anderson, Oct. 31
Data Science Forum/discussion group Oct. 10, 17
Retired Professor Rudy Svoboda passed away in September 2023.
He received his PhD from Purdue, and was a professor and Assistant Dean at IPFW for 37 years.
Photo page from the 2023 Actuarial & Data Science Picnic 🍔🌭
Professor Emeritus Ray Pippert, in the Aug. 25, 2023 Journal Gazette
The Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, together with PFW University Research and Innovation, is offering statistical design consulting services for PFW faculty and students.
Fall 2023 schedule: PDF
location: Helmke Library 248A, the new Student Research Hub
Welcome to new Assistant Professor of Data Science, Zhenisbek Assylbekov!
Welcome to new Assistant Professor of Practice in Actuarial Science, Sarah Showalter!
Welcome to our new administrative assistant, China Howard!
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