Pi 2022-23
Events related to students and student organizations
Purdue Fort Wayne Department of Mathematical Sciences
Joint event with Anthropology Club, Pi Math Club, Data Hub Club: Kyler Hudson, Senior Data Analyst at Vera Bradley and PFW alumnus, "Data Analytics: From the social sciences to industry." April 26, 2023.
Pi Math Club invited talk: Prof. Rick Gillman, Valparaiso University, on "Why do left-handed people survive?" April 24, 2023.
This talk was arranged through the College Visitors Program of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America
The 2023 Pi Mu Epsilon honor society's annual induction ceremony and reception was April 23.
presentation by Jamie Hallas, Trine University, From Games & Puzzles to Graphs
Mathematical Sciences students presentations at the PFW Honors Program Showcase, April 11-14, 2023
Austin J. Brandenberger, Math and Physics major, “Experiments with Correlated Photons”
Nikolas Albertson, Math minor, “Stock Performance Prior and After Federal Holidays”
Ishrat Islam, Electrical Engineering and Math major, “IoT Gateway”
Nathan Mills, Actuarial Science major and Math minor, “Predicting Regional Weather Patterns in the United States”
The Data Hub Club is sponsoring a movie and pizza night on Thursday, April 6th at 6:00 pm in KT G46 to watch Moneyball.
The 2023 PFW Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium was March 24.
Mathematical Sciences graduate student Josh Garman presented a poster based on his project with Prof. Yihao Deng, Copula Classification and Parametrization via Neural Networks.
Mathematical Sciences graduate student Isabella Haraguchi presented a poster based on her project with Prof. Don Chen (PFW Civil/Mech. Engineering), Regression Analysis of Harmful Algal Bloom in Western Lake Erie.
Math faculty A. Coffman and C. Vanderlaan, and Mathematical Sciences graduate student S. K. Avorgah volunteered as event judges.
Data Hub Club event
Zhenisbek Assylbekov, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, On the hardness of cracking AES key
March 22, 2023.
See the Math News page for other Data Science events this week!
Lunch with Two MedPro Actuaries
Two actuaries from MedPro, Kenda Sanderson and Brandon Ridgon, were on campus March 1, 2023, to present on a software tool called Alteryx, which is used for data science and analytics. Alteryx is a powerful tool, and data scientists and actuaries find it to be very helpful in their work.
Over lunch, they also shared their perspectives on the actuarial profession in general and their roles as casualty actuaries at MedPro in particular, with Q&A.
Both Brandon and Kenda are recent graduates of IPFW and are progressing through the actuarial exams.
K. Sanderson with actuarial students, Nathan Mills and Jack Mills
PFW Physics student activities Fall 2022 photo page
Actuarial and Data Science event: "Meet the Firms". Oct. 6, 2022. Flyer
The first callout meeting of the Data Hub Club will be on Monday, September 12th at noon in room KT 218. Anybody who is interested in joining the Data Hub Club should stop by and enjoy some food! We will discuss our plans and get to know each other during this meeting. Please email datahubclub@pfw.edu if you plan on attending so we can plan for the food.
The 2022 Fort Wayne Actuarial Picnic was on campus, Sept. 9.