Colloquium Dr. Martin Bauer, Florida State University Geometry, Shapes & PDEs Thursday, March 31, 11 :00AM In Person Event: 121 Manchester Hall The past decades have seen tremendous advances in imaging techniques, which have led to a significant growth in the quantity and complexity of data in fields such as…
Dr. Erhardt’s grant proposal, “Spatial Considerations for Flood Insurance Portfolio Diversification”, will be funded by the Casualty Actuarial Society. This project will quantify how climate change is expected to impact the ability of insurance companies to manage flood risk in North America. The project is joint with Mathieu Boudreault, at…
The 2022 Gentry Lectures will be given by Athanassios Spyridon Fokas, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) of the University of Cambridge. Dr. Fokas is a Greek mathematician with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Medicine. Since 2002, he has been a Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science in the…
Rob Erhardt and Staci Hepler’s grant proposal “Scalable Models, Fast Computation and Predictability for Spatio-temporal Ordinal Data” was awarded by the National Science Foundation. The project will develop new statistical methodology for ordinal spatio-temporal data, and deploy it to improve drought prediction in conjunction with the National Drought Mitigation Center….
Colloquium Dr. Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota “Nonuniqueness in Dynamical Systems” Thursday, March 17, 11 :00AM 121 Manchester Hall A concept that has been around for a century is that of a well-posed problem. The three conditions for a problem to be well-posed are ( 1) existence of solutions, (2)…
A social perspective on perceived distances reveals deep community structure by Kenneth S. Berenhaut, Katherine E. Moore, and Ryan L. Melvin has been published in PNAS January 25, 2022 119 (4) e2003634119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003634119 The WFU News Service has published an article, Where mathematics and a social perspective meet data, about…
