NEWS in the Mathematics Department

 

The "American Mathematical Society Professional Directory", which is published annually, is now available online. Please go to: http://www.ams.org/dirinst/

 

TEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
PathwaysToScience.org is a portal website supporting pathways to the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Particular emphasis is placed on connecting traditionally underrepresented groups with STEM programs and resources, including funding and mentoring opportunities. This is a useful website (http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/index.asp) for faculty, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students in your department.

Explore Fulbright . . more than 800 Fulbright Scholar Program grants available. Start your journey at: http://www.cies.org/

 

SUMMER 2009 Department Newsletter: http://www.math.colostate.edu/newsletter/Summer%202009%20mathematics%20newsletter-1-3.pdf

 

Troy Butler - PhD final examination
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009
Place: Weber, 117
Time: 11:30 a.m.

Title:    Computational Measure Theoretic Approach to Inverse Sensitivity Analysis: Methods and Analysis

Advisor: Dr. Don Estep

Committee:

Dr. James Liu
Dr. Simon Tavener
Dr. Jean Opsomer

Abstract: We consider the inverse problem of quantifying the uncertainty of inputs to a finite dimensional map, e.g. determined implicitly by solution of a nonlinear system, given specified uncertainty in a linear functional of the output of the map. The uncertainty in the output functional might be suggested by experimental error or imposed as part of a sensitivity analysis.  We describe this problem probabilistically, so that the uncertainty in the quantity of interest is represented by a random variable with a known distribution, and we assume that the map from the input space to the quantity of interest is smooth. We derive an efficient method for determining the unique solution to the problem of inverting through a many-to-one map by computing set-valued inverses of the input space which combines a forward sensitivity analysis with the Implicit Function Theorem. We then derive an efficient computational measure theoretic approach to further invert into the entire input space resulting in an approximate probability measure on the input space. We provide detailed error analysis for inverse problems involving nonlinear ordinary differential equations.

 

Graduate, Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards
The National Research Council of the National Academies sponsors a number of awards for graduate, postdoctoral and senior researchers at federal laboratories.  These awards provide generous stipends ($42,000 - $74,000 per year for recent Ph.D. recipients and higher for additional experience), and the opportunity to do independent research in some of the best-equipped and staffed laboratories in the U.S.  Research opportunities are open to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and for some of the laboratories, foreign nationals.

Detailed program information, including instructions on how to apply online and a list of participating laboratories, is available on the NRC Research Associateship Programs Web site at:

There will be four review cycles annually.  Upcoming deadline dates are:
August 1, 2009
November 1, 2009
February 1, 2010
May 1, 2010

Applicants should begin a dialogue with prospective Advisers at the lab as early as possible, before their anticipated application deadline.

 

NSF PASI Summer Program - Pan-American Advanced Study Institute
Title: Commutative Algebra and its Connections to Geometry honoring Wolmer V. Vasconcelos
Olinada, Brazil
August 3-14, 2009

Week 1: Advanced School - The school is aimed at mathematicians from the Americas at the peridoctoral stage. Their participation is supported through funds made available by the NSF, via the PASI prgoram. The school will feature seven courses on fundamental techniques in commutative algebra and related fields.

Week 2: International Workshop - The international workshop will showcase recent developments in commutative algebra, emphasizing connections to algebraic geometry, computer algebra and combinatorics.

For further information: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~pasi2009

 

2009 Claremont Colleges Math-In Industry Workshop
Title: Recent Developments in Dynamical Equations in Time Scales
Claremont, California
July 24-26 2009 (mini-course)
July 27-31, 2009 (workshop)

The Claremont Colleges' Applied Mathematics group will hold a workshop for industrial math problems. July 27-31, 2009. The format will follow one that was started by Oxford's Applied Math in 1968. This format has been replicated over and over and is now repeated a number of times each year across the world. For further details: http://www.math-in-industry.org

Applications are to be submitted at a registration page on their soon-to-be created web page at http://ccms.claremont.edu/mini

 

(UGA) University of Georgia - Athens, GA
Workshop: Mathematical Biology and Numerical Analysis
August 1-2, 2009

This workshop is organized by the UGA Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) in association with the "IMACS World Congress Conference on Computational and Applied Mathematics and Applications in science and engineering" (www.uga.edu.macs/), which will be held at UGA on August 3-5, 2009. NSF has recommended funding to support students and posdocs to participate in this workshop. The objective of this workshop is to give interdisciplinary education, training and research in the mathematical and biological sciences. It will provide the participants with an overview of the necessary mathematical and biological background that are essential for a good number of applications in biological sciences. The number of funded participants will be between 30 and 40. The funds will provide 3 nights lodging (shared rooms), registration which includes two coffee breaks each day, lunch at each day of the workshop and travel expenses up to $325.

For more info: http://taha.cs.uga.edu/workshop09/

 

2009 SIAM Annual Meeting in Colorado
Student Days - Activities for graduate students
Sheraton Denver Hotel, Denver
July 6-10, 2009

Student Days at the 2009 SIAM Meeting are days for students and about students. Organizers have got it all covered this year, with activities and sessions in which students can meet with both peers and professionals in their field, participate in a career fair, attend an information session on hot areas for jobs and research, and network with members of SIAM Student Chapters from all over the world. Student Days are designed to encourage student participation in SIAM, to help students learn more about applied mathematics and computational science as both fields of study and as careers; and to provide a forum for emerging mathematicans to learn about their field from professionals who know the answers.

To register online at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an09/reginfo.php

 

pcmi 2009
The Institute for Advanced Study - Park City Mathematics Institute
June 28 - July 18, 2009
Application deadline: January 28, 2009

For official information, visit: http://pcmi.ias.edu

 

For previous undergraduate listings, go to: http://www.math.colostate.edu/programs/undergraduate/

 

 

 

None this week!!!

 

None this week!

 

 

SIAM 2009 Conferences
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Further information can be found on the conference web site: http://www.siam.org/meetings/

 

2009 SIAM Annual Meeting
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver
July 6-10, 2009

SIAM's Annual Meeting provides a broad view of the state of the art in applied mathematics, computational science, and their applications through invited presentations, prize lectures, minisymposia, and contributed papers and posters. This conference is being held jointly with the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT09).

For additional information go to: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an09/

 

11th Annual Rocky Mountain Mathematica
Summit County Colorado
July 12-17, 2009

The Mathematica courses are designed for users and teachers of mathematics and other scientific subjects who wish to enhance their ability to use Mathematica for presentations, projects, teaching, and research. The introductory course is for people whose experience with Mathematica ranges from none to some casual use. The intermediate course will focus on programming and the numerical symbolic, and graphical issues. Both courses will use examples, often from calculus.

For additional information go to: http://rmm.lfc.edu/

 

CaMeW - Career Menotring Workshop for Women
Wheaton College, MA
July 26-28, 2009

The goal of this conference is for each participant to leave with a good understanding of the job search process together with mentors and a group of peers from across the nation who can assist her and provide additional support as she navigates the job market. Applicants should be women graduate students in the mathematical sciences entering their final year of graduate studies. Deadline is May 15, 2009.

For an application and information go to: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/camew

 

SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
Hilton Miami Downtown - Miami, Florida
December 7-9, 2009

The primary goal of this conference is to bring together scientists and mathematicians working in partial differential equations and related fields. Contemporary challenges raised by recent advances in engineering, industry, and bio-technology, will be confronted with state-of-the-art mathematical and computational tools in PDE.

For more details: www.siamorg/meetings/pd09

 

CRM - CENTRE DE RECHERCHES MATHÉMATIQUES
Montréal, Canada
Thematic semester – August through December 2009
Mathematical Problems in Imaging Science: From the Neuronal to the Quantum World

For additional information, please check the conference web site: http://www.crm.math.ca/Imaging2009

 

20th ISMP - The International Symposium on Mathematical Programming
August 23-28, 2009
University of Chicago's Gleacher Center and the Marriot Downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel

The ISMP is a scientific meeting held every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Programming Society. The Symposium marks the 60th anniversary of the 0th Symposium organized by the Cowles Commission at the University of Chicago in June, 1949.

Further information can be found on the conference web site: http://ismp2009.org

 

 

 

Annoucing the publication of: Introduction to Derivative-Free Optimization
by Andrew R. Conn, Katya Scheinberg, and Luis N. Vicente
Instructors and request an exam copy

Learn how sampling and model techniques are used in derivative-free methods and how these methods are designed to efficiently and rigorouly solve optimization problems. Although readily accessible to readers with a modest background in computational mathematics, this book is also intended to be of interest to researchers in the field. It is the first contemporary comprehensive treatment of optimization without derivatives.

Order your instructor copy today direct from SIAM at: http://my.siam.org/forms/exam.htm

 

SIAM - New Careers Brochures
20-page publication available

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has published its latest brochure on applied mathematics and computational science careers outside of academia. The 20-page publication includes information on emerging career fields, examples of companies and organizations that hire applied mathematicians and computational scientists, and profiles of professionals working in these fields today.

The SIAM Careers Brochure answers many of the questions that high school and college-aged students may be asking with regard to career opportunities in the mathematical sciences, including:

What's out there for someone with my interests and background?
Where can I work?
Where are the up-and-coming job opportunities?
How should I pursue my studies?
Who are the people working in industry today?

Profiles highlight professionals at Google, IBM, IDA, Merck, Michelin, NSA, and many other organizations and companies.

The FREE PDF version of the new brochure and a link-request for one free hardcopy can be found at: http://www.siam.org/careers/thinking/php or http://www.siam.org/careers/
Multiple of bulk copies are available at cost. SIAM wil also custom print the brochure for any interested corporation or institution sponsor with quotes based on quantity requested. For this information, please contact stephenson@siam.org.

 

INFORMing the globe
INFORMS - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Annual Meeting, San Diego 2009
October 11-14, 2009

For more information:http://meetings.informs.org/sandiego09/