Making Mathematics
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College Board of Visitors Lectures
Teaching Introductory Statistics: Implementing GAISE Recommendations Monday, April 8 at 5:30 p.m. ZSR Library 404 Auditorium I will present the six recommendations for teaching introductory statistics endorsed by the American Statistical Association in its GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education) report (www.amstat.org/education/gaise/). For each recommendation I will…
The Wild World of Infinite Groups
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Talia Fernós University of North Carolina at Greensboro Monday, March 18, 2019; 4pm – 5pm Manchester Hall, Room 020 “The Wild World of Infinite Groups” The study of infinite groups is wild; it is known that not all questions concerning them are solvable….
Calculus Meets Electromagnetism and Thermodynamics: A Tale of Two Disciplines
Joint Colloquium Departments of Physics and Mathematics & Statistics Tevian Dray, PhD Department of Mathematics Oregon State University “Calculus Meets Electromagnetism and Thermodynamics: A Tale of Two Disciplines” Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 4:00 pm George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall (Olin 101) Calculus as taught by mathematicians typically involves a large toolbox…
Congratulation to Dr. Erhardt
The Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching is awarded to outstanding faculty members in the early part of their careers. This year’s winner is Robert Erhardt, professor of mathematics and statistics. Erhardt has helped increase student enrollment in statistics courses through restructuring the department. His personable character and enjoyable classroom environment are summarized by…
The role of PDEs and integro-differential equations in biomedical and materials models
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Maria Emelianenko George Mason University March 7, 2019 11:00am Manchester Hall, Room 018 “The role of PDEs and integro-differential equations in biomedical and materials models” The talk will survey some recent theoretical developments in the realm of random walks and generalized master…
Folded ribbon knots in the plane
Colloquium Elizabeth DenneAssociate ProfessorDepartment of MathematicsWashington and Lee UniversityThursday, Feb. 21 at 11am Manchester Hall, Room 018 Folded ribbon knots in the plane. Abstract: We study Kauffman’s model of a folded ribbon knot: a knot made from a thin strip of paper folded flat in the plane. The folded ribbonlength…
AMC Math Contests Feb. 13, 2019
Wake Forest University is hosting the AMC math contests, AMC10B and AMC12B this year on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019, 5:15-7:00 pm. We invite your students to participate in these contests. There are 10 AMC10B spots and 10 AMC12B spots available. Interested students should contact Dr. Jiang as soon as possible….
Estimating Atmospheric Motion Winds from Satellite Image Data using Space-time Drift Models
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Indranil Sahoo Wake Forest University January 15, 2019 at 11:00amManchester Hall, Room 018 “ Estimating Atmospheric Motion Winds from Satellite Image Data using Space-time Drift Models” Geostationary satellites collect high-resolution weather data comprising a series of images which can be used to estimate…
Senior Seminars Presentations
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Senior Seminars: Thursday, December 6, 2018 Carswell Hall 118 Karina Tang “Sports Analysis of Professional Soccer Players” 4:00pm – 4:20pm Echo Dong “Data Scientist Job Market in U.S” 4:20pm – 4:40pm Wenbo Ye “Bayesian Methods and its Application in Economics and…