In early August, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jangwoon “Leo” Lee presented “The h-p Version of Stochastic Galerkin FEM for Stochastic Optimal Control Problems” at the US-Korea Conference 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif.
As an associate editor for the website Statistics on the Web, Professor of Mathematics Debra Hydorn recently published two lesson plans. Titled “The Taste of Yellow” and “How Long is 30 Seconds?” these lesson plans serve as exemplars that follow the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education from the American Statistical Association and also meet standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Common Core for State Standards for Mathematics Practice.
Professor of Mathematics Suzanne Sumner, together with Dr. Wyatt Mangum, adjunct faculty member, recently delivered the invited talk “Worker Bee Aggression towards a Foreign Queen: Modeling from Data” for the Progress on Difference Equations international conference hosted at Virginia Commonwealth University. The talk addressed their continued research into the mathematical modeling associated with the behavior of bees.
Associate Professor of Mathematics Randall Helmstutler recently co-authored an article published in the journal PRIMUS – Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies. The article, “Finite Topological Spaces as a Pedagogical Tool,” looks at the use of finite topological spaces as examples in a point-set topology class especially suited to help students transition into abstract mathematics.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Julius Esunge recently returned from Istanbul, Turkey, where he delivered the talk “Risk Minimization in Levy Markets Using g-expectation” at the 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics.
