Assistant Professor of Mathematical Biology Calistus Ngonghala is the lead author of a new study published in the journal Mathematical Biosciences that studied the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions in curtailing the virus. The researchers found that widespread use of highly effective surgical facemasks in the public could wipe out the virus, while the use of […]
Dr. William Severa‘s research team at Sandia National Laboratories was featured in an article entitled “One Step Closer to Deep Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware” in The Next Platform. Dr. Severa is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Data-driven and Neural Computing group at Sandia and is lead mathematician on the profiled project. […]
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Prof. Andrew Vince together with his coauthor Michael Barnsley were recipients of a 2018 Mathematics Association of America Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award for their paper “Self-Similar Polygonal Tiling” . The Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Awards recognize authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly. The […]
Our graduate alumnus, Dr. Jia-Jie Zhu, has recently been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, one of Europe’s most prestigious grant awards for junior scientists. Jia-Jie received doctoral training with Prof. William Hager and is currently a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen where he working on a project in reinforcement learning (RL) […]
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The National Science Foundation, in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to bring mathematical perspectives to the biological search for the ‘Rules of Life’ — the underlying principles that govern how life functions. UF Mathematics Professor Peter Bubenik is one of 14 researchers in the $10M NSF-Simons Southeast Center for Mathematics […]
A recent article by Assistant Professor Ngonghala on the ecology of rural poverty has been featured in several major science news outlets. His paper, entitled “General ecological models for human subsistence, health and poverty”, is discussed in detail in the on-line versions of both Science and Nature, two of the most prominent scientific journals. For […]