Strength in numbers CATEGORIES: NEWS, STUDENTS Dana Thacker. (Alyson O’Hara/Iowa State University) Dana Thacker (’23 data science, mathematics) wants to be in the room when big decisions could impact people’s health and well-being. “The example I keep giving is that someone had to be in all these different hospitals analyzing COVID data in 2020, asking, ‘When does it look … Continue reading Strength in numbers
Ryan Martin and Yiu Tung Poon, both professors of mathematics, have been recognized by the Department of Mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for their research, teaching and service excellence. Martin has received the Scott Hanna Professorship in Mathematics, and Poon has earned a Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship. Both were formally recognized … Continue reading Mathematics faculty recognized for excellence in teaching and service to students
Five faculty members were recognized for excellence in research, teaching, and service by University and LAS College awards. Dr. Shira Zerbib receives ISU Award for Early Achievement in Research Dr. Shira Zerbib is cited for substantial mathematical contributions since joining the Department of Mathematics at ISU in 2019. Her research—which combines elements of combinatorics … Continue reading Faculty Excellence Recognized with University, College Awards
The 7th KUMUNU-ISU Conference was held at Iowa State University in April 22-23, 2023. The Conference brought together top ranked specialists, who work in various areas of partial differential equations (PDEs) and infinite dimensional dynamical systems, with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early career young faculty. We would like to thank the organizers Pelin Guven … Continue reading 7th KUMUNU-ISU Conference
Pablo Raúl Stinga, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has published the featured article “Fractional Derivatives: Fourier, Elephants, Memory Effects, Viscoelastic Materials, and Anomalous Diffusions” that appears in the April 2023 issue of the monthly magazine Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The Notices is the world’s most widely read magazine aimed at professional mathematicians. As … Continue reading Pablo Raúl Stinga publishes featured article in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society
The ISU math department is hosting Midwest Numerical Analysis Day 2023 on April 29th. For more information please see their website.
Join the Mathematics Department in honoring our students and faculty on Friday, April 14, 2023 in 1001 Troxel Hall. The awards ceremony starts at 4:30 and is followed with light refreshments. Come early for a special Colloquium: “Do Dogs Know Calculus” by Dr. Tim Pennings at 3:20pm! You can watch the awards ceremony here. … Continue reading Math Department 2023 Awards Ceremony
Sonia Kovalevsky Day (SK Day) is an event designed to increase middle school girls’ interest in mathematics, assist them in the transition between middle school and high school mathematics, encourage them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM disciplines), as well as to develop more extensive cooperation with middle schools in their … Continue reading Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematics Day 2023
María Soria-Carro has been awarded one of the three 2023 Association for Women in Mathematis (AWM) Dissertation Prize: https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-dissertation-prize/ Soria-Carro graduated in 2022 from the University of Texas at Austin with a PhD in Mathematics dissertation entitled “Regularity of elliptic transmission problems and a new family of integro-differential operators related to the Monge-Ampère equation.” … Continue reading Stinga’s co-advisee awarded 2023 Association for Women in Mathematics Dissertation Prize
The 5th Mostly annual Mostly Manitoba, Michigan and Minnesota Combinatorics Graduate Students Workshop was held at Iowa State University, Ames, IA on September 10 and 11, 2022. This was a two-day conference/workshop with plenary invited speakers and parallel sessions of talks delivered by graduate students. Topics included graph theory, extremal combinatorics, finite geometries, designs, and … Continue reading MMMM Conference