The Math Club will be having a meeting next Thursday on March 3rd at 5:30pnm in POT 745. David Murrugarra will talking about some research he did over the past year with two UKY undergraduate students, I believe they were Jacob Miller and Alex Mueller. The title and abstract of his talk are below. Please come and ahangout with other mathematically minded students. There will be pizza.
Details for upcoming math meetings and announcements are below.
Abstract: Stochastic Boolean networks, or more generally stochastic discrete networks, are an important class of computational models for molecular interaction networks. The stochasticity stems from the updating schedule. The standard updating schedules include the synchronous update, where all the nodes are updated at the same time and gives a deterministic dynamic, and the asynchronous update, where a random node is updated at each time step that gives a stochastic dynamics. A more general stochastic setting considers propensity parameters for updating each node. SDDS is a modeling framework that considers two propensity values for updating each node, one when the update has a positive impact on the variable, that is, when the update causes the variable to increase its value, and the other when the update is negative, that is, when the update causes it to decrease its value. This extension adds a complexity in parameter estimation of the propensity parameters. This talk presents a method for estimating the propensity parameters for SDDS. The method is based on adding noise to the system using the Google PageRank approach to make the system ergodic and thus guaranteeing the existence of a stationary distribution and then with the use of a genetic algorithm the propensity parameters are estimated.
The 2016 Kentucky Section Annual Meeting will be held April 1-2, 2016 at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky. Our invited speakers are Jennifer Quinn of the University of Washington at Tacoma, Joe Gallian of the Univerisity of Minnesota at Duluth, and our 2015 teaching award winner Alex McAllister of Centre College. More information about the speakers and other details of the meeting can be found using the links below.
KYMAA Meeting RegistrationThe University of Tennesee Mathematics Department will be hosting its Tenth Annual Undergraduate Math Conference on Saturday, April 16, 2016. This conference will give undergraduate students a chance to present their mathematical research and to meet other undergraduates and hear about their research.
This year's invited speaker is Professor Lea Jenkins of Clemson University (Title: Headline Hunting: Finding the Mathematics in Events Every Day). Everyone is invited to attend; more details will be given later.
Registration deadline: March 31, 2016For more details see UG Conference
We would like to invite you, your faculty members and your students to the Twenty-Ninth Annual Eastern Kentucky University Symposium in the Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences. The symposium will be held on Friday, April 29, 2016.
We always appreciate having the opportunity to exchange ideas with the students and faculty members from other institutions. We hope you will encourage your students to prepare talks for the upcoming symposium. These talks may be original or expository in nature and should be approximately 20 minutes long. They should be understandable to advanced undergraduate students. In addition, we may accept a limited number of faculty talks if the schedule allows.
We believe that the students who give talks find the experience beneficial. Frequently, even good students are reluctant to present their works in the classroom. Giving a talk to a group helps to overcome this fear of presentation. Students who are taking independent studies and students working on a thesis or dissertation find the symposium an excellent opportunity to share their ideas and results. In the past 3 years, we have had over 60 student speakers. As an added incentive, prizes will be awarded to the top student presenters. At this point, we have the following sponsors and prizes:
Kara Begley, McGraw Hill, gift cardsAlthough the experience students gain from participation in a symposium can be an invaluable part of their educational development, there are few such opportunities for undergraduates or new graduate students. It is the goal of our symposium to provide such a forum in a friendly and encouraging environment. Please talk to your students about this learning opportunity and encourage their active participation. A flyer and a call for proposals is enclosned.
The symposium will begin around 8:00-9:00 am on Friday morning and end around 4:00-5:00 pm, depending on the number of speakers. The plenary speaker at the symposium is Dr. Todd Sanger from Eli Lilly and Company. A future email will include a schedule for the day and a campus map.
If you would like any additional information, please feel free to contact me. We look forward to seeing you at the symposium!
Sincerely,We are actively recruiting students for our 18 month Master's in Biostatistics program and are reaching out to math clubs to spread the word.
A master's degree in biostatistics was recently listed by Fortune Magazine as the second best graduate degree you can get: http://fortune.com/2015/04/27/best-worst-graduate-degrees-jobs/
I'd be happy to contact any of your members if they are interested. Thanks for your help!
ElaineThe Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) hosts a ten week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects.
Each student receives a stipend of $5,000, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $600 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ten students will be selected.
Qualifications:Undergraduate, community college student, or high school senior attending college in the fall, interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.) with at least a 2.75 GPA, considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major, being a US citizen or permanent resident, and graduating at least one semester after completion of the REU.
Important Dates:These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects.
Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation's largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.
For more information and to apply, visit:The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, is an innovative research environment, advancing computational sciences, technologies and the disciplines they touch.
Researchers at CCT use the advanced cyberinfrastructure - high-speed networks, high-performance computing, advanced data storage and analysis and hardware and software development - available on campus to enable research in many different fields.
By uniting researchers from diverse disciplines, ideas and expertise are disseminated across LSU departments to foster knowledge and invention.
For more information on the CCT, visit: