| Raegan Higgins lectured on the time scales calculus at Texas Southern University on April 30, 2012. The talk was part of the Dr. Llyaron L. Clarkson Research Seminar series. The audience consisted of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members from TSU and the University of Houston. |
| Clyde F. Martin, Horn Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The awards ceremony for recognizing the newly selected fellows will be held on 31 July 2012 at the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, CA. |
| Kent Pearce attended the Mathematical Association of America Texas Sectional Meeting in Dallas and gave a presentation titled, "Mentoring Paradigms in Undergraduate STEM Scholarship Program" at Texas Tech University. |
| Wayne Lewis attended the Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference 2012, hosted by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is one of the two U.S. co-organizers of the conference and chair of the Organizing Committee for the Special Session in Continuum Theory. |
| Kent Pearce attended the American Mathematical Society's Science Policy Forum on policy and funding issues for the mathematical sciences. |
| Roger Barnard gave an invited talk titled, "Iceberg type problems, estimating hidden parts of a continuum from the visible parts" at the Special Session, "On Applications of Complex Analysis in Mathematical Physics" at the University of South Florida.
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| Clyde F. Martin has been awarded a Jefferson Science Fellowship to work at the United States State Department in Washington, D.C. His appointment will run from August 2012 through August 2013. |
| Razvan Gelca , Leader of the USA Mathematics Competition Team, just got back from the Romanian Masters of Mathematics competition held last week in Bucharest. Teams from 12 countries took part in this extremely challenging competition (Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, UK, USA). The US team is selected based on the test scores at previous year's training program for the International Mathematical Olympiad. Each team is joined by 2 professors, one who is The Leader and one who is the Deputy Leader. The two take part in the grading of the papers. The Leader is also involved in the discussion of the problems that are given, and of the grading scheme. It is the second year that I served as the Leader of the US team for this competition. I am their coach during the Math Olympiad Summer Program, which I have been doing every year since 1997 (with a break between 2003 and 2005). The six members of the US team won one gold medal (Victor Wang) and 5 bronze medals (Joshua Birkensiek, Mark Sellke, Thomas Swayze, James Tao, and Dai Yang). |
| Robert Kirby attended the Finite Element Rodeo at Rice University and presented research on "Preconditioners for Benard Convection". |
| Geoffrey Dillion attended the Finite Element Rodeo at Rice University and gave a presentation on, "Block Preconditioners for the Bidomain Equations". |
| Thinh Kieu attended the Finite Element Rodeo Conference at Rice University. He gave a talk, "Symplectic-mixed finite element approximation of linear wave equations". |
| Lars Christensen has been selected as one of the recipients of the President's Excellence in Teaching Awards. He will be recognized at the Faculty Honors Convocation which will be held on Tuesday, 24 April 2012. |
| Magdalena Toda participated in the 2012 Texas Geometry and Topology Conference and networked with the PI's of the TGTC-NSF grant which was recently renewed and will be held at Texas Tech University again in February 2014. |
| Clyde Martin gave the Departmental Colloquium in the Department of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University on January 27. The title of his talk was "Linear Switching systems: theory and applications". He also spoke at the interdepartmental Life Sciences Seminar, the title of his talk was "Some thoughts about type II diabetes".
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| Roger W. Barnard attended the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA and attended the Rocky Mountain Consortium Board Meeting. |
| Brian Miller attended the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA and presented his research, "Integration and Primary Decomposition". |
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