WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Department of Mathematics & Statistics presents Alex Sink, WFU Life Trustee Thursday, April 22, 2021, 11:00 am via ZOOM from Kirby 101 Ms. Sink will discuss how her education as a math major at Wake Forest has impacted her careers in banking, politics, public service and nonprofit…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Department of Mathematics & Statistics presents Dr. Keisha Cook Tulane University Thursday, April 15, 2021 11:00 am via ZOOM “Single Particle Tracking with applications to lysosome transport” Live cell imaging and single particle tracking techniques have become increasingly popular amongst the mathematical biology community. We study endocytosis,…
Graduate Research Fellowships support outstanding graduate students in STEM Wake Forest University senior Noah Meyer, who studies physics and applied mathematics, has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Meyer, who is from Dayton, Ohio, plans to pursue a PhD in physics in the field of condensed matter…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Department of Mathematics & Statistics presents Dr. Harris Daniels, Amherst College Thursday, April 8, 11:00 am via Zoom “An Introduction to Galois Representations Attached to Elliptic Curves “ Elliptic curves are ubiquitous in the field of mathematics. They appear everywhere from diophantine equations to mathematical physics. One…
Joseph McCalmon, Ashley Peake and Samuel Schwartz have been named 2021 Barry S. Goldwater Scholars. The three are among 410 college students from across the U.S. to receive the award for the 2021-22 academic year. They were selected for the Goldwater Scholarship based on academic merit from a field of more…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY Department of Mathematics & Statistics presents Dr. Thomas Kindred University of Nebraska-Lincoln Thursday, April 1, 2021, 11:00 am via ZOOM ”The future is a 4-manifold” I am delighted to be joining Wake Forest’s math department in the fall as a Teacher-Scholar Postdoc! This talk will describe how…
