Georgia Tech mathematics comes in at #18 worldwide in the latest QS World University Rankings. First compiled in 2004, QS World University Rankings were conceived to present a multi-faceted view of the relative strengths of the world's leading universities. The research currently considers more than 2,000 universities and ranks more than 700.

Tech PrEP: The Calculus Advantage July 31 - August 10, 2013

In collaboration with the School of Mathematics and Residence Life's Freshman Experience Program, the Center for Academic Success coordinates the Tech Pre-Calculus Enrichment Program (Tech PrEP). This non-credit, residential program reviews fundamental pre-calculus and calculus concepts as well as introduces strategies critical for academic success in calculus and other first-year courses.

Students enrolling in either Math 1501 (Calculus I) or Math 1712 (Survey of Calculus) are encouraged to register. Tech PrEP is designed to be an active, social, and relaxed environment with the overall goal of giving new students a head start on their success at Tech.

Organized by Professor Liang Peng, the 8th conference on extreme value analysis, probabilistic and statistical models and their applications, will take place at Fudan University, Shanghai, China during July 8-12, 2013. It is the aim of the conference to bring together a diverse range of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students whose work is related to the analysis of extreme values in a broad sense. Topics of interest include:

  • Univariate, multivariate, infinite dimensional extreme value theory
  • Order statistics and records
  • Rare events and risk analysis
  • Spatial/spatio-temporal extremes
  • Heavy tails/light tails in actuarial sciences
  • Other related applications

This meeting will schedule presentations on all probabilistic and statistical aspects of extreme value analysis and applications in

  • Climate and atmospheric science
  • Industrial risks
  • Geosciences
  • Hydrology
  • Finance, economics and insurance
  • Biosciences
  • Physics
  • Telecommunications and stochastic networks

For complete conference details, please visit the conference website.

 

The following faculty received Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematics.

The goal of this program is to support the mathematical marketplace by substantially increasing collaborative contacts in the community of mathematicians working in the United States.

Several faculty were selected as Simons Fellows in Mathematics.

The fellows programs provide funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations.

Professor Anton Leykin is a member of the organizing committee for the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry to be held on the Colorado State University campus August 1-4, 2013. Among the invited speakers is Professor Greg Blekherman.

The SIAM Activity Group in Algebraic Geometry brings together researchers who use algebraic geometry in industrial and applied mathematics. Algebraic geometry is interpreted broadly to include at least: algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, noncommutative algebra, symbolic and numeric computation, algebraic and geometric combinatorics, representation theory and algebraic topology. These methods have already seen applications in: biology, coding theory, cryptography, combustion, computational geometry, computer graphics, quantum computing, control theory, geometric design, complexity theory, machine learning, nonlinear partial differential equations, optimization, robotics and statistics.

Professor Brett Wick and previous post doc in the School of Mathematics, Mishko Mitkovski, are members of the organizing committee for the CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences to be held at Clemson University August 12-16, 2013. The subject of this year's conference is Uncertainty Principle in Harmonic Analysis: Gap and Type Problems. Among the invited speakers are Professors Michael Lacey and Doron Lubinsky.

There will be ten lectures delivered by the main lecturer, Professor Alexei Poltoratski (Texas A&M University). See the complete list of abstracts for his lectures. Additionally, the invited speakers will give one-hour lectures.

Professor Ronghua Pan's paper (joint with Feimin Huang and Huimin Yu), "Large time behavior of Euler-Poisson system for semiconductor," Science China, Mathematics, Vol. 51, No. 5 (2008), pages 965-972, has been selected as the excellent article of Science China, Mathematics. The journal selected eight outstanding papers from more than 1,000 articles published in the journal between January 2007 and December 2011. Professor Pan's paper was ranked number seven. The top three papers will receive the award of Excellent Article, and the other five will receive the award of Excellent Article, Honorable Mention.

Math alumnus Adam Marcus (2008 PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization) will be invited to speak at the next International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in Seoul, Korea, August 13-21, 2014.

The International Congress of Mathematicians takes place every four years with over 4,000 mathematicians from all continents in attendance. The program consists of about 20 plenary one-hour lectures, about 160 invited 45-minute lectures held in 19 sections, and prize ceremonies, including the award of the Fields medals. Being invited to speak is a significant honor which indicates that the speaker's recent work is held in very high regard by the mathematical community.

Adam's talk is classified jointly in Section 8: Analysis and its Applications and Section 13: Combinatorics, and is a collaboration with his coauthors Daniel A. Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava.

It is notable that this will be the fourth International Congress, and the third in a row, with at least one of the invited speakers affiliated with the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization Program.

Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava recently solved the Kadison-Singer Problem, which has been open since 1959. A short, (three-page) purely expository paper that states Kadison-Singer (but is really about "frames", not K-S) can be downloaded from a recent AMS Notices.

Professor Ronghua Pan is the first mathematican to receive the Sciences without Borders, Special Visiting Researcher from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) or the "National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development" in Brazil.

This is a 3-year program intended to attract senior foreign researchers recognized internationally for leadership in the program's priority areas. This fellowship includes support for living expenses, when the researcher is in Brazil, as well funding for the local laboratory.

Ronghua will spend 3 months in 2013 in Brazil with his collaborator, Hermano Frid, at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). In the second and third years of the fellowship, Ronghua plans to visit IMPA for one month each year. The fellowship also sponsors exchange students and post docs.

The Southeast Geometry Seminar is a series of semiannual one-day events focusing on geometric analysis. These events are hosted in rotation by the following institutions:

  • The University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • The Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Emory University
  • The University of Tennessee Knoxville

This event will be held on November 10, 2013 at Emory University, Room W201, Mathematics and Science Center, 400 Dowman Drive.The following five speakers will give presentations

  • Alex Freire (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  • Matthew Gursky (University of Notre Dame)
  • William Minicozzi II (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Yanir Rubinstein (University of Maryland)
  • Gaoyong Zhang (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)

The Southeast Geometry Seminar (SGS) is a semiannual series of one day events sponsored jointly by:

  • National Science Foundation
  • Emory University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of Tennessee Knoxville

There are NSF funds available to support travel expenses of participants. Priority will be given to current or recent Ph.D. students and postdocs. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Please email oliker@mathcs.emory.edu if you plan to attend and wish to request support.

For full details, check the program and schedule.

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Organizers:

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  • John McCuan and Mohammad Ghomi (Georgia Tech)
  • Vladimir Oliker (Emory)
  • Fernando Schwartz (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  • Gilbert Weinstein and Junfang Li (University of Alabama, Birmingham)

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