The department would like to welcome Lara Ellwein Fix, Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), who will be giving a talk on Tuesday. November 14, at 12:30 PM in SCP 229. Title: Patient-specific modeling and parameter estimation of cardiovascular and respiratory dynamics Abstract: The transport and control of physiological fluids and metabolites is critical… Continue Reading
The department would like to welcome Micah Chrisman, from Monmouth University, who will be giving a talk on “Classical and Virtual Knot Cordance on 10/25/17, at 11:00 am in SCP 230. Abstract: A circle can be embedded in 3-dimensional space in many different ways. Such an embedding is called a knot. Two knots K_0 and… Continue Reading
The department would like to welcome Patrick Rault, from the University of Arizona, who will be giving an IBL workshop on Friday, 10/27/17, at 12:30 pm in SCP 229. Title: Micro-Workshop on IBL Workshop leader: Patrick X. Rault, University of Arizona. Associate Professor & Program Director of Mathematics for the UA’s distance program. Active learning… Continue Reading
Double major in biology and applied mathematics, Syndi Barish ’16, along with her Mathematics & Statistics Department mentors, Dr. Jana Gevertz and Dr. Michael Ochs, and Dr. Eduardo Sontag from Rutgers University, just published a research paper in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, or PNAS. The article, “Evaluating optimal therapy robustness by virtual… Continue Reading
On May 6th, at the department’s annual picnic, Dr. Sharon Navard, faculty, and Charles (Charlie) Ashton, Adjunct Faculty, were named Teachers of the Year by the students of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. This award, which is given annually to one regular one adjunct faculty member, is “presented for excellence in teaching in the… Continue Reading
On Sunday, April 9th, a 5-student team from TCNJ claimed 2nd place at the Google Games in New York City. The TCNJ team, named NP Too Easy, consisting of Ursula Widocki (Mathematics & Statistics), Darshan Kalola (Biology), Ethan Zeigler (Computer Science), Tomer Aberbach (Computer Science), Varun Taruvai (Biology) competed against 19 other teams from NJIT,… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr.Thomas Hagedorn, who has received the MAA-NJ Section Sr. Stephanie Sloyan Award for Distinguished Service. This award is given to a MAA-NJ member in appreciation for many years of extraordinary service contributed to the mission of the organization. From the citation: Tom Hagedorn’s service to the New Jersey Section of the Mathematical Association… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Curtis, who has received the NJ Section of the Mathematical Association of America’s 2017 Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. This award is given “to honor college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful, and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had… Continue Reading
After being selected as a 2016 Goldwater Scholar, Senior Applied Mathematics major, Rebecca Santorella ’17, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2017. These awards are highly competitive, and are awarded in fields that students will continue to study in graduate school. The 2017 Fellowship selection process was very intense,… Continue Reading
The department would like to welcome Dr. R.J. Leiser, from NJIT, who will be giving a talk on Wednesday, 3/22/17, from 11:00-12:00 in SCP 229. Abstract: An impedance profile represents the interaction between a neuron and periodic forcing. The interplay of frequency preference and amplitude response give us insight into the preferred forcing for optimal… Continue Reading