News 2024-25

IPFW alumnus Janet (Locke) Carpenter passed away in July 2025.  She was a GTA and LTL in Mathematical Sciences.

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Spring 2025 Colloquium

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• Liding Yao, the Ohio State University, On Seeley-type Universal Extension Operators for the Upper Half Space.

  • Wednesday, April 9.

  • Flyer PDF

• J. Nick Treuer, University of California San Diego, Geometric Classification Problems and Applications of Complex Analysis

  • Wednesday, April 16.  

  • Flyer PDF

• Andrew Bowling, Wabash College, When Labelings and Colorings Collide

  • Friday, April 18.

  • Flyer PDF

• Blake Peterson, Brigham Young University, Building on "MOSTs" in Math Education

  • Thursday, May 1, 3:00 to 4:00

  • Joint with PFW School of Education

  • Another talk on Seeing Math through your Students' Eyes - Thursday, May 1, 6:00 to 7:00.

  • Flyer PDF for both talks

• Ramón Orive, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, Optimal Polynomial Approximants.  An Electrostatic Approach.

  • Thursday, May 15.

  • Flyer PDF

The Spring 2025 meeting of the Indiana MAA was a joint "Tri-Section" meeting with Ohio and Kentucky, April 4-5, at Northern Kentucky University

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• Poster PDF

• Web site including schedule and registration

• The Indiana College Mathematics Competition was part of this event.  One of the two PFW teams placed 5th in the tri-state competition.  

Congratulations to Dr. Alan Legg, whose promotion to Associate Professor was approved by the Purdue Board of Trustees!

Congratulations to Prof. Safwan Akkari on his retirement!

Congratulations to John Osowski, Lecturer, on his retirement!

Spring 2025 Seminars for the PFW Laboratory of Data Science:

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• Seminars can be viewed online, contact Prof. Selvitella for the link

• Prof. Selvitella has recorded a podcast for the PFW Science Spotlight series

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 2025 schedule: PDF

• location: Helmke Library 248, the Student Research Hub

The conference "Constructive Functions 2025" will be at Vanderbilt University, May 19-22, 2025

• Prof. Dragnev will be a speaker.

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The 2025 MATHCOUNTS event at PFW was Sat. Feb. 15

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Congratulations to Prof. Doug Townsend, on his retirement!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Pippert Science Research Awards!

• Prof. Hanan Alyami, Mathematical Sciences and School of Education

• Prof. Scott Bergeson, Biological Sciences

• award presentation at College of Science convocation Photo Page

PFW Data Science Week 2024

• Dec. 2 - Dec. 6

• Web page

• Participant registration, including contributed short talks or posters, by Nov. 28

Colloquium Fall 2024

• Kevin Milans, West Virginia University, Longest path transversals and Gallai families

  • Nov. 25

  • Flyer with abstract PDF

• Vahan Mkrtchyan, Yerevan State University, Normal edge-colorings of cubic graphs.

  • Nov. 18

  • Flyer with abstract PDF

• Peter Boyvalenkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, On kissing numbers with forbidden distances.

  • Oct. 31.  Flyer with abstract PDF

  • There was also an earlier talk for students on the same topic, Wednesday, Oct. 30.  (See the Pi Math Club page)

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Fall 2024 Seminars for the PFW Laboratory of Data Science:

• Web page 

• Seminars can be viewed online, contact Prof. Selvitella for the link

• Monday, Nov. 11 6:00 pm KT 216: Bernard Ricca, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, Dynamical Systems Data Science in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Tuesday, Nov. 12 1:00 pm online: Chirag Bellara, PFW Computer Science, An Introduction to Digital Twins

Our department is hiring!  See the job ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, in the area of discrete mathematics.  Apply by Oct. 1, 2024 for the position starting Jan. 2025.  

• PFW job listings

• Chronicle of Higher Education

Graduate student "shorts" seminar Fall 2024

• Prof. Zubovic, Oct. 16

• Prof. Berry, Sept. 18

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The 2024 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis was Oct. 11-13 at Indiana University Bloomington.

• Professors Coffman and Legg are co-organizers, Professors Pan and Zhang also attended.

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• Web site - register by Sept. 15, 2024 to apply for travel funding

• Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation

The 2024 SIAM Great Lakes Section annual meeting: hosted by Purdue University Northwest on Oct. 12.

• Web site for this meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

• registration and contributed talks due date Sept. 30, 2024.

Actuarial Science events for Fall 2024

• October Newsletter PDF

• "Meet the Firms" event, Oct. 10, 3:00-4:30, Room 137, the IDEA space on the first floor of PFW Helmke Library

• Fall 2024 Actuarial Picnic - for students, local actuaries, and data science professionals

  • Friday, Sept. 6 at the Mastodon Alumni Center (1528 E. California Rd., near the Holiday Inn)

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  • PDF Flyer

• Actuarial Club "Callout Meeting" Wednesday, August 28. 

The 28th Annual Purdue Fort Wayne Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium will be Friday, March 21, 2025.

• Helmke-Walb Sky Bridge, 10am-2pm.

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 2024 schedule: PDF

• location: Helmke Library 248, the Student Research Hub

Congratulations to Linda Wagner on her retirement!

Welcome to our new administrative assistant, Steven Markley!