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Noncommutative Rings

Jiayi Li, Kewen Peng, Drs. Ferraro and Kirkman are investigating the degrees of the minimal generators of the set of elements invariant under a finite group of linear operators acting on a noncommutative ring. In 1916 Emmy Noether proved that the order of the group is an upper bound on these degrees when the group acts on the usual polynomial ring, and the WFU team has found examples where that bound does not hold for actions on noncommutative rings.

Probability and Networks

Dr. Kenneth Berenhaut works with students on probabilistic questions related to networks and network data. Recently graduated students include Ryan Melvin ('18), Fan Feng ('18), Ruidan Li ('18) and Gregory Campbell ('18). Dr. Katherine Moore (PhD. Dartmouth, 2018) has joined the group as a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow. Recent papers to appear in Journal of Applied Probability, Nature -- Scientific Reports and Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.

DataFest

Dr. Nicole Dalzell brought thirty-five Wake Forest students to compete in a three-day data science competition in Durham, NC. Along with over 350 other undergraduates from 9 different institutions, these students processed, cleaned and analyzed a real world data set with roughly 17 million rows of data.

Save the Date: Allan Rossman

Allan Rossman of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has agreed to give a lecture and a demonstration on pedagogy in math and statistics. This will be funded by the College Board of Visitors as part of Sarah R’s leadership award in the spring. It will be similar to the Gentry lectures…

The Nexus of Climate Data, Insurance, and Adaptive Capacity

WORKSHOP: The Nexus of Climate Data, Insurance, and Adaptive Capacity: November 2018, Asheville, NC Societies depend on insurance to help recover from natural disasters, and also to help guide the development of resilient infrastructure and markets. However, decision makers in the insurance industry are faced with rising climate risks, which…

Dr. Robinson receives teaching award.

Mathematical Association of America Southeastern Section Distinguished Teaching Award Stephen Robinson The Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America instituted the Award for Distinguished College of University Teaching of Mathematics at its meeting in San Francisco, California, on January 15, 1991. There will be awards at both the…

Technology helps a blind student see math clearly

Evening the odds WFU faculty finds technology to help blind student see math clearly By Will Ferguson and Bonnie Davis Office of Communications and External Relations Kathryn Webster listens to her computer spit out a rapid-fire stream of numbers and symbols in a metallic voice. To the average person, the…