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Message from the Chair Inside Newsletter of the Department of Mathematical Sciences @ University of Delaware RECKONINGS SUMMER 2016 Message from the Chair LOUIS F. ROSSI Inside Chair’s Message ....................................1 t’s a pleasure to share with you through outstanding research, excel- New Center for Applications of again all the great things happening lent education and the integration Mathematics in Medicine Opens ...2 Iin and around the Department of of education and research within the Faculty Research Grants ....................3 Mathematical Sciences. As a faculty, we context of the mission of their orga- New Faculty ............................................4 measure ourselves by our students and nizations.” Associate Profs. Sebastian College of Arts & Sciences Honors our discoveries, and also to the degree Cioaba and Yvonne Ou were named Faculty, Students, Alumni .................5 to which we involve our students in our to the editorial boards of the Electron- The Theory of Dense Graph Limits: New Connections Between Analysis, scholarship. ic Journal of Linear Algebra and the Combinatorics and Journal of Applicable Analysis, respec- Data Science ..........................................6 There is certainly plenty to celebrate in tively, top journals in their fields. Profs. Dr. Driscoll elected to SIAM Council Appointment .........................7 this issue of Reckonings. Dawn Berk, Bettyann Daley and Tammy Rossi who planned and deployed our Mathematical Sciences Great departments create an environ- in the Land of Aus ................................8 Mathematical Sciences Learn Laborato- ment where faculty flourish. With 43 Departmental Student faculty, there is always lot going on, ry are the first instructional team ever Awards .....................................................9 and I thought I would touch on a few of to be recognized with the College of Graduate Program Alumnus Talk ...................................... 10 the many highlights. Last fall, we wel- Arts and Sciences Teaching Award. Prof. New Math Learning Lab Offers One- comed Assistant Profs. Mahya Ghan- Toby Driscoll was elected to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Stop Shop for Student Success .....11 dehari, Dominique Guillot and Doug Conference Corner ............................12 Rizzolo to the department. In addition (SIAM) Council, a position of significant profession influence. Finally, Prof. Jinfa Job Experience as the to bringing talented instruction to our SIAM President ....................................13 Cai has been named a Fellow of Amer- programs, they expand our research Featured Graduate capacity into new areas including data ican Educational Research Association Students ............................................... 14 (AERA), one of two faculty in UD’s histo- mining, probabilistic graph theory, Nayantara Bhatnagar is Awarded wavelet analysis and graph limits. This ry to hold this great honor. NSF CAREER Grant ............................ 15 Editorial Appointments .................. 16 spring brought the happy news that A significant new addition to the Associate Prof. Nayantara Bhatnagar NACADA Outstanding Department is the Center for Applica- Advising Award .................................. 16 has been awarded a prestigious NSF tions Mathematics in Medicine (CAMM). Honors ....................................................17 CAREER grant, the premiere early Building on considerable research career award given to a rare few who “... Thank You to our expertise within our department, on Generous Donors! ............................. 18 exemplify the role of teacher-scholars campus and at regional medical cen- Congratulations to our new Ph.D.s’ new jobs!................................ 19 Continued on page 4 Department of Mathematical Sciences | RECKONINGS | 1 CAS_Newsletter_MATH_Reckonings_Summer2016_final.indd 1 9/8/16 9:57 AM Nayantara Bhatnagar is Awarded NSF CAREER Grant Prof. Nayantara Bhatnagar is awarded program is NSF’s premiere early career the prestigious NSF CAREER Grant for award given only to those who “... her research on probability and combi- exemplify the role of teacher-scholars natorics through outstanding research, excel- lent education and the integration Prof. Nayantara Bhatnagar’s project, of education and research within the entitled “Phase Transitions in Some context of the mission of their organi- Discrete Random Models and Mixing of zations.” Markov Chains” will begin this summer and run for five years. The NSF CAREER Faculty Research Grants 2016 AMOUNT/ PI / CO-PI AGENCY TITLE DURATION Bhatnagar,Nayantara NSF NSF CAREER: Phase Transitions in Some Discrete Random Models and Mixing of Markov Chains 400K/5Y Cai, Jinfa DDOE Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics for Students in Grades 8-11 44K/2Y Cirillo, Michelle Cioaba, Sebastian NSF The Interplay between Spectral and Combinatorial Properties of Graphs and Association Schemes 130K/3Y Driscoll, Toby NIH NIH Delaware INBRE 3 18K/1Y Schleiniger, Gilberto Guillot, Dominique UDRF Analysis of Clustering Algorithms via Graph Limits 35K/2Y Guyenne, Philippe NSF Nonlinear Dispersive Water Waves in Multiscale Interaction Problems 130K/3Y Lazebnik, Felix SIMONS Algebraic Constructions of Dense Graphs with Forbidden Cycle Lengths 35K/5Y Monk, Peter B NSF Collaborative Rsch: Integrated Simulation of Non-homogeneous Thin-film Photovoltaic Devices 500K/3Y NSF New Directions in the Qualitative Approach to Inverse Scattrering Theory 62K/1Y Park, Jungeun UDRF Improving Calculus Instruction through content-specific TA professional development 35K/2Y Plechac, Petr DARPA BROWN/ DARPA Information Metrics for Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Materials Design 171K/2.5Y Rakesh, Rakesh NSF NSF Inverse Problems for the Wave Equation 152K/3Y Rizzolo, Douglas UDRF Asymptotic Properties of Random Trees 35K/2Y Xiang,Qing NSF Algebraic Methods in Combinatorics and Finite Geometry 210K/ 3Y 2 | RECKONINGS | Department of Mathematical Sciences CAS_Newsletter_MATH_Reckonings_Summer2016_final.indd 2 9/8/16 9:57 AM New Center for Applications of Mathematics in Medicine Opens BY R.J. BRAUN he Center for Applications of will shape new approaches to relevant Mathematics in Medicine (CAMM; problems and new generations of Twww.mathandmedicine.org/) mathematical researchers. was founded in the College of Arts and Sciences in Spring 2016. The founding Our research projects cover a wide range already; they including treatment A computed distribution of the saltiness director is Tobin Driscoll, with associate of tears over the exposed ocular surface; directors Pak-Wing Fok and Richard of neonatal heart conditions, tear film this case has rapid evaporation and the Braun. At the time of writing, CAMM and ocular surface dynamics, athero- darkest red indicates a six-fold increase in sclerosis, the BIAcore optical biosen- the saltiness over normal tears (Longfei Li, boasts 20 faculty members from four et al, Math. Med. Biol. 2016). departments and two colleges, five sor, and models for cancellous bone. Short introductory videos by some of external associates, and six students. first year of life. Understanding the Among the members are five holding our members can be found at www. mathandmedicine.org/projects. physiology of a patient in real time in medical doctorates and a certified the hospital is challenging but mathe- radiologist. The founding of CAMM Part of the foundation of CAMM is a matical models of the heart and circula- was celebrated with a reception at the series of projects on the tear film and tory system have been developed that Faculty Commons in April with Deans the ocular surface. Profs. Braun and aid in this critical function. The needed George Watson, Doug Doren and John Driscoll have been funded by the NSF parameters for the model are deter- Pelesko, Department Chair Louis Rossi, since 2007 and the NIH since 2010. They mined based on continuously collected and CAMM members. work closely with research associates bedside vital signs. The project goal is CAMM’s purpose is to coordinate Profs. Carolyn Begley (Indiana Optome- to provide clinicians with patient-spe- research and education that advance try) and P. Ewen King-Smith (Ohio State cific warnings and diagnostics to pro- the application of mathematics and Optometry). This set of projects has vide timely treatment and prevention computation to biomedical research studied tear film motion during blink- measures. The project is seeing a surge and clinical practice in order to improve ing, tear flow and saltiness (osmolarity) in participation with four new under- human health in the state, region, and over the exposed ocular surface, and graduates and one new PhD student beyond. the breakup (disruption) of the tear film in the summer of 2016. The project is in small local areas. The results have currently supported by funds from the Why math and medicine? Our un- appeared in top eye and mathematical Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical derstanding of complex biological journals, has produced 4 PhDs to date, Research (INBRE) grant, UD Summer systems, including human health, are and will produce three more PhDs and Scholars, UD Summer Fellows and the increasingly based on quantitative one MS student in the near future. Department of Mathematical Sciences. measurement and models built from Sixteen undergraduate students have first principles. Physicians are often worked on summer and thesis projects, Other projects include a recent PhD brilliant empiricists, but are not usually with three winning undergraduate
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