See our Newsletters for past activities and accomplishments of our alumni and faculty. Also, check out the Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Schedule for upcoming talks.
News Items
MAA State Dinner at UNCW: November 20, 2008.
Dr. Simmons is new Assistant Chair, Spring 2009.
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Technology Innovations for Mathematics Education (TIME) Center Grand Opening February 28, 2007 from 4pm – 6pm in Bear Hall Room 204.
Jr. Seahawk Academy Summer Registration will begin March 1, 2007.
Dr. Kelli Slaten, UNCW, will talk about Connecting Effective Mathematics Teaching to Students' Growth of Understanding: Instructional Representations in Practice. The talk is at 3pm in BR 219 with refreshments available 30 minutes before the talk in BR 211.
Dr. Susan Simmon gave a talk Friday, January 19th on Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Model to Detect QTLs in plant experiments
MAT 495 Talks - Dec 12, 4:00-6:00 PM: Pascal Matrices, Alex Powell and Deriving Maxwell’s Equations by Using Differential Geometry, Diana Streng.
Dr. Jeffrey Scroggs to speak Friday, November 17 at 3:00 PM on Finanicial Mathematics: No arbitrage pricing.
Dr. Gabriel Lugo and Dr. Russell L. Herman were the first members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to be inducted into ORSSP's Million Dollar Club on August 30th.
Dr. Alina Iacob will give the first Departmental Seminar talk on Thursday, September 14 at 3:30 in BR 16. The title of her lecture is On DG-Injective Complexes. See her abstract.
Dr. Gabriel Lugo receives a 2006 Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award at the Fall Faculty Meeting. The award recognizes "faculty members who have made a profound contribution to higher education through their dedication and service to students." Recipients receive a medallion to wear at University Convocations and Commencements and a stipend of $5,000 per year for three years.This award is in addition to the 2006 Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award he received in May. He becomes the third member of the department to win this prestigious award (Dr. K. Spackman 1994-1997 and Dr. R. Herman 2005-2007).
Math Professor is a Soaring Seahawk
Dr. Gabriel Lugo received a 2006 Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award at the College of Arts and Sciences Convocation on May 2nd. ... more
Dr. Russell L. Herman will recieve the 2006 Board of Governor's Award for Teaching Excellence. He was also recognized at the CAS Convocation. ... more.
The Thad Dankel Mathematics Scholarship Endowment was announced on November 3, 2005. The Scholarship is in honor of the 33 years that Dr. Thad Dankel devoted to the Mathematics and Statistics Department at UNCW.
Dr. Gabriel Lugo was honored on December 8th by CTE and Chancellor DePaolo as one (of two) of UNCW's 2005 U.S. Professors of the Year Award nominees.
Dr. Thaddeus Dankel, mathematics professor (1971-2004), passed away on November 10, 2005.
Dr. Scott Watson defended his thesis, String Gases in the Early Universe, at Brown University under the direction of Dr. Robert Brandenberger in September 2005. Scott graduated UNCW in 2000 with a double major in Mathematics and Physics and had completed a physics honors thesis, An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology, co-advised by Dr. R. Herman. He begins a postdoc at the University of Toronto. Scott was Toney Scholar 1999-2000 and a UNCW Undergraduate Research Fellow, 1999-2000 amonst other honors at UNCW.
Dr. Srinath Vadlamani defended his thesis, An Algorithmic Unification of Particle-In-Cell and Continuum Methods and a Wave-Particle Description for the Electron Temperature Gradient (ETG) Instability Saturation, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, under the direction of Dr. Jim Meiss (Applied Mathematics) and Dr. Scott E. Parker (Physics) in May, 2005. Srinath graduated UNCW in 2001 with an M.S. His thesis, Lie Symmetries of the Vaidya Equations, was completed under the direction of Dr. R. Herman.. He is now doing computational MHD research at the Plasma Science and Innovation Center at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Dr. Russell L. Herman received two teaching awards this year. In May he received a 2005 Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award. In August he received a Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award. See Center for Teaching Excellence Newsletter.
Spring 2006 Events
Career and Internship at Deloitte and Touche - April 26, 2 PM in Bear Hall 161. A discussion of opportunites by Matt Clarke, Senior Manager, Data Quality & Integrity, Deloitte and Touche LLP.
Dr Sasha L. Logan, Coastal Carolina U., to talk April 21st on A few open problems in Graph Theory
Dr Ralph Howard, U. of South Carolina, to talk April 7th on Integral Geometry in the Plane
Dr. Chandler, UNCW, will talk Friday March 24 at 3:00 on Inner k-involutions of SL(n; k) and SP(n; k)
Professor Norman Finizio, University of Rhode Island, will talk about Difference Matrices on Wednesday, March 15 at 3 pm in Bear 219.
Dr. Russell Herman will talk on Predicting the future of the solar system: Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and stability in the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography on February 24th.
Dr. Alina Iacob will talk on Avramov-Martsinkovsky type exact sequences on February 3rd.
UNCW will host the T3 Regional Conference sponsored by Texas Instruments on March 31 - April 1.
The Annual High School Math Contest will take place April 5, 2006.
Fall 2005 Events
Dr. Alina Iacob will talk on Direct sums of DG-injective complexes on November 18th.
Dr. Russell Herman will talk on Harmonic Analysis and the Prediction of Tides on October 14th.
Dr. Mark Lammers is scheduled to kick off the Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series in September with a talk on Analog to Digital Conversion: Alternate Duals for Reconstruction. See the Seminar Schedule.
New Faculty - Fall 2005
Dr. Alina C. Iacob, Assistant Professor in Mathematics, joined our faculty this year. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky and holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research areas are in homological and commutative algebra.
Dr. Farrah J. Chandler, Assistant Professor in Mathematics, joined our faculty this year. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from North Carolina State University. She also holds a M.S. in Mathematics from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Mathematics Education from North Carolina A&T State University. Her research interests are in Lie Groups and their related symmetric spaces.
Miscellaneous Items
The Department Faculty and Staff Group Picture - April 28, 2004
