Teegan Bailey, a second year Mathematics major, mentored by Darryl Chamberlain has been named a UF Emerging Scholar. His research project entitled “Undergraduate’s Covariational Reasoning with Parametric Representations” will investigate how Calculus 1 students are able to apply two different types of covariational reasoning to linear and nonlinear functions. The Emerging Scholars Program encourages early […]
We are pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Sara Pollock has received the highly competitive CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) award from the National Science Foundation. As described on the NSF webpage: “The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support […]
The International Educator Awards are held annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to the internationalization of the University of Florida. Each college selects its college-level International Educators of the Year and nominates individuals for the campus-wide award. We are pleased to announce that Assistant Prof. Calistus N. Ngonghala was recognized as an outstanding international educator […]
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The AMS has presented $3,000 awards to each of eight undergraduate students through the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Fund, made possible by a bequest from the estate of Waldemar J., Barbara G., and Juliette Trjitzinsky. Each year the AMS selects several geographically distributed schools, which in turn make one-time awards to beginning mathematical students to […]
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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 […]