Math Newsletter 2013-2014

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER 1

Mathematics Department Newsletter 2013 - 2014

From the Chair

Math Department Picnic, August 2013

In This Issue:

Fleming Lecture Page 2

ICOSDA 2013 Page 3

CaC 2013 Page 4

SIAM 2013 Page 4

Statistics Club Page 4

NSF REU 2013 Page 5

GIS Page 5

KME Page 6

Penny Wars Page 7

Ph.D. and Master’s Graduates Page 8

Faculty Awards and Promotions

Page 8

New Tenure Track Faculty Page 9

New Visiting and Fixed Term Faculty

Page 10

Mathematics Awards and Scholarships

Page 11 - 12

New Funded Graduate Students

Page 13 - 14

In Memoriam Page 14

It has been another exciting year in the Department of Mathematics. We welcomed new faculty Mohamed Amezziane, Debraj Chakrabarti, and Ben Salisbury to our ranks. In August, we held the department retreat, which was very successful. We revised our bylaws and proposed goals for the coming year. The REU program continues to attract talented undergraduates; this year's program was led by Sivaram Narayan, Leo Butler, Susan Cooper, and CMU alumna Lisa Driskell. Our student organizations competed in "Penny Wars" to raise money for Special Olympics, and John Daniels received due recognition for his wartime efforts on behalf of Gamma Iota Sigma. Troy Klingler was named Richtmeyer-Foust winner, and Katelyn O'Bryan was named Whitmore Award winner. Tharange Wijetunge received his Ph.D. and is now at Lyon College in Arkansa. Raid Al-Aqtash received his Ph.D. and is now a visiting professor at the University of Cincinnati. Finally, we welcomed 11 new graduate students to the department in Fall 2013. Timothy Gowers delivered the 2nd annual Fleming Lecture in April. We are pleased to announce that this year the Fleming lectures will be given by S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan of the Courant Institute. This year, we hosted three conferences—“Conversations Among Colleagues,” “2013 Great Lakes SIAM Conference,” and “First International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications.” These events were all very successful. Each organizing committee has reported on their events in this newsletter. I would like to thank the Newsletter Commmittee---Martha Frank (chair), Sid Graham, Christine Phelps, and Mohan Shrikhande--for their efforts in putting the newsletter together. To our alumni, we thank you for your continued support, and we wish you all the best in the coming year. Respectfully, En-Bing Lin


Varadhan to be Third Fleming Lecture Series Speaker, in March 2014

Newsletter Editorial Committee Martha Frank (Chair)

Sid Graham Christine Phelps

Mohan Shrikhande

The third Fleming Lecture will take place March 27 and 28 of 2014. The Fleming Lecture Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Richard Fleming Endowed Speaker Award and the Mathematics Department. This year our speaker will be Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan. Varadhan was awarded the Abel Prize in 2007 by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Abel Prize is dedicated to the memory of the famous mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802 – 1829). Varadhan is currently the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He is known for his work in probability theory, stochastic processes, and partial differential equations. He is particularly cited for creating a unified theory of large deviations. Varadhan first became interested in mathematics in high school, which he credits to one of his teachers. He began to view mathematics as something to enjoy, like “playing chess or solving puzzles.” (http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Varadhan.html) He got his bachelor’s degree in Statistics in 1959 and his Masters degree in 1960, from Presidency College, Madras. He worked at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), initially in the area of statistical quality control but soon became interested in problems dealing with the more mathematical aspects of probability theory. He was awarded a doctorate from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1963. His dissertation was on ‘Convolution properties of distributions on topological groups,’ under statistician C. R. Rao. One of Andrei Kolmogorov’s comments on Varadhan’s work was “This is not the work of a student, but of a mature master” (http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Varadhan.html). Varadhan’s awards and honors include:

o The Birkhoff Prize (1994) o The Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from New York

University (1995) o The AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (1996) o The Abel Prize (2007) o The Padma Bhushan from the Government of India (2008) o The National Medal of Science (2010)

Picture Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Srinivasa_Varadhan.jpg

FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://www.ams.org/notices/200802/tx080200238p.pdf


The Mathematics Department hosted the First International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (ICOSDA 2013) October 10 – 12 at Soaring Eagle Casino, Mt. Pleasant. Over 115 participants from the US and 24 countries around the world attended the conference. ICOSDA 2013 aimed to provide an avenue for original discussion and prompt future directions in the area. The conference was, in part, to celebrate the International Year of Statistics (Statistics 2013) to “promote creativity and development in the sciences of probability and statistics.” The scope of the conference included: new methodology for generating generalized distributions; frequentist and Bayesian inference on generalized distributions; applications of generalized distributions to different areas; and statistical modeling using generalized distributions.

ICOSDA 2013 provided opportunities for participants to exchange ideas and facilitate discussions on recent developments in statistical distributions, their applications, and other related areas. It was an ideal forum to stimulate ideas, initiate contact and establish collaborations.

The conference included four keynote speakers, four plenary speakers, 51 research paper presentations, and 22 poster presentations. In conjunction with Springer Publishing, a selected number of presenters at the conference were invited to submit their full papers for consideration for possible publication in the special issue of the International Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications (JSDA).

The keynote speakers were:

• Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada)

• Paul L. Speckman (University of Missouri) • Chris Jones (The Open University, UK) • Barry C. Arnold (University of California,

Riverside).

The committee that organized the conference included all nine regular statistics faculty in the Mathematics Department. The eight members of the Scientific Program Committee were from five different universities in the USA. The sources of funding support were from the Department of Mathematics and the National Security Agency. Over ten organizations and companies were sponsors of the conference.

FAST FACTS

115 participants at ICOSDA 2013

81 talks, presentations, and posters


http://people.cst.cmich.edu/lee1c/icosda/

ICOSDA 2013 By: Carl Lee


Conversations Among Colleagues 2013

The Mathematics Department hosted the Seventh Conversations among Colleagues conference on Saturday, March 23, 2013. The conference theme was "Making Practice Core: Mathematical Practices and the Practice of Teaching." The conference attracted approximately 120 participants. The keynote speakers were:

• Jere Confrey (North Carolina State University) • Ruth Ann Hodges (Michigan Department of Education) • Valerie Mills (Oakland Schools; President-Elect, National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics).

Katrina Piatek-Jimenez and Ana Dias were the conference Co-Chairs.

GLSIAM 2013 By: Xiaoming Zheng

The 2013 Great Lakes Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (GLSIAM) conference was held on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at Central Michigan University. The theme was "Computational Mathematics: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications." George E. Ross, Ph.D., President, Central Michigan University, delivered the opening remarks. Three internationally renowned scientists (Russel Caflisch from UCLA, Hans Othmer from University of Minnesota, and Guowei Wei from Michigan State University) delivered invited talks. Ten researchers from nearby universities and industries delivered contributed talks. This conference also included thirteen posters. There were approximately seventy participants from the Great Lakes region – mainly from universities and some industries including The Dow Chemical Company, Dow Corning, and Ford.

Statistics Club Report By: Kahadawala Cooray

The Statistics Club Officers for the 2013-14 academic year are:

! Nicole Feinauer – President ! Sarah Mok – Vice President ! Robert Journeau – Treasurer ! Lauren Lafountain – Secretary

In addition, 12 members of the club attended and fulfilled various tasks for ICOSDA (the International Conference of Statistical Distributions and Applications). This provided them with valuable experience in interacting with professional statisticians.


We congratulate the 7 of 10 Actuarial Science students who passed Exam P this past year and the 6 of 9 students who Passed Exam FM. The Gamma Iota Sigma (GIS) Officers for the 2013-14 academic year are:

! Hillary Mahoney, President ! Ashley McFall, Treasurer ! Christina Dork, Secretary ! Samantha Hawkins, VP of Fundraising ! Nicole Feinauer, VP of Communications ! Peter Jaworski, VP of Alumni Relations ! Lauren Lafountain, VP of Public Relations

In addition, 16 members of the GIS - Nu Chapter (CMU) attended the annual GIS Management Conference, held this year from October 3-5, 2013 at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, NC. There, they could distribute resumes, hopefully leading to successful job interviews.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site program at CMU began in the summer of 2002. The goal of the REU is to stimulate talented undergraduates to learn new mathematics by working on challenging, unsolved research problems. Professor Sivaram Narayan received a 3-year grant of $283,537 for the period 2012-14. During Summer 2013, 11 students participated in the REU program. Drs. Leo Butler, Susan Cooper, Lisa Driskell, and Narayan were the faculty mentors for the summer. The annual “Summer Undergraduate Michigan Mathematics Research (SUMMR)” Conference was hosted by CMU on July 22, 2013. There were 65 participants and 17 student talks from CMU, Grand Valley State University, Hope College and Michigan State University. Dr. Ben Linowitz (University of Michigan) gave the keynote address on “The ABC Conjecture.” The REU program has so far worked with 136 students (67 men, 69 women), of which 98 students have been supported by the NSF-REU grants, 29 students from CMU have been supported by CMU Summer Research Scholarships or REU matching funds from the Dean of the College of Science and Technology, and 9 students have received support from their own institutions.

NSF REU 2013

Gamma Iota Sigma (GIS) Report By: John E. Daniels


CMU student Tyler Wippel won a $5,000 scholarship from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association in 2013. Tyler Wippel is in his last year in the mathematics department and is pursuing a major in mathematics for secondary education. He is passionate about teaching and already works with high school students. In addition to the scholarship money, Tyler Wippel receives $3,000 to use for technology expenses in the first years of his teaching career.


http://www.cm-life.com/2013/09/27/cmu-student-awarded-5000-stem-scholarship/

Kappa Mu Epsilon (KME) Report By: Sivaram Narayan

During the academic semesters last year, KME Math Honor Society (Michigan Beta Chapter) met once every two weeks. The faculty advisors are Drs. Sivaram Narayan and Meera Mainkar. Seven new members were inducted in Spring 2013. KME is active throughout the year. Before final exams in Spring 2013 and Fall 2013, KME members held a Math-a-Palooza event and tutored students. In addition, four KME members with Dr. Narayan attended the Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (MUMC) at Sienna Heights University on February 23, 2013, and three KME members and Dr. Narayan attended the KME National Convention in Topeka, Kansas from April 10-13, 2013. To raise funds for their events, KME members designed and sold travel mugs and t-shirts for Pi day (March 14, 2013) and, jointly with other student organizations in the department, held a used book sale (September 2013).

Finally, KME organized and participated in the following:

• Showings of the DVDs “The Derivative vs. The Integral: The FINAL SMACKDOWN” (on March 13, 2013) and “N is a Number: Portrait of Paul Erdos” (on November 6, 2013) were well attended.

• Marie Ermete (KME President) gave talks at MUMC and the KME National on her REU research from Summer 2012.

• Dr. Narayan gave 15 – 20 minute talks almost every meeting during Spring and Fall 2013 on various topics in mathematics and its applications.

• Professor Bruce Sagan of Michigan State University gave a talk titled, “Two binomial coefficient analogues” on March 27, 2013.

• Professor Felix Famoye gave a talk at the KME Induction Ceremony on April 21, 2013 titled, “The use of analogies for illustrating statistical concepts.”

• Graduate Student Adam Moreno gave a talk, "A mathematical look at Sudoku," on April 24, 2013. • Dr. Debraj Chakrabarti gave a talk on October 23, 2013. The title of his talk was “From Complex

Numbers to Quaternions.” • Graduate Student Jim Kowalski gave a talk on “The Matrix Exponential” on November 20, 2013. • Six members took part in the 19th Annual Michigan Autumn Home (MATH) Challenge on November

2, 2013. • Two KME members took part in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition on December

7, 2013.

Student wins STEM Scholarship


At the end of Spring 2013, the three Math Department student organizations Kappa Mu Epsilon (KME), Gamma Iota Signam (GIS) and the Statistics Club had a fundraising event (organized by CMU math graduate Marie Ermete) to benefit Special Olympics. Jars for change were placed in the Department office for each of the three student organizations. Bills and silver coins were worth negative points and pennies were worth positive points. In the end, Sivaram Narayan (KME advisor) and KME were the Penny Wars winners with $15.94 pennies collected. They received free pizza. The Statistics Club, with Cooray as advisor, came in second place. John Daniels and G.I.S. came in third, with only $3.55 in pennies but $114.25 in bills and silver coins! As a consequence, John was “treated” to a pie in the face in the Pearce/Anspach courtyard on April 25, 2013. Four Special Olympics athletes were sponsored with the $262.46 that was collected during the fundraiser.

Penny Wars Fundraiser for Special Olympics


Leela Rakesh and Mohan Shrikhande received Salary Adjustments.

Lisa DeMeyer was promoted to full professor.

Kahadawala Cooray and Yeonhyang Kim received tenure.

Brad Safnuk received an NSF grant titled: Operadic Structures in Topological Recursion. The grant is for $108,471 and will run through 2016.

2012 – 2013 Ph.D. and Master’s Graduates

Faculty Awards and Promotions

Mathematics Department, Faculty Retreat Photo, August 2013

Tharanga Wijetunge successfully defended his dissertation in May 2013. His thesis title was “The role of student response systems in the development of pre-service mathematics teachers’ perspectives on student engagement, communication, and assessment.” His thesis advisor was Denny St. John. He is now a faculty member at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas.

Raid Mousa Al-Aqtash successfully defended his dissertation in August 2013. It was titled “Generating New Families of Distributions Using the Logit Function.” His advisors were Felix Famoye and Carl Lee. He is now a visiting professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Earle Crosswait III graduated in Spring 2013 with his Master’s Degree. He completed two Plan B papers. The first was with Ana Dias and titled, “Homeschooling: A Case Study Examining Motivations and Methods.” The second was with Katrina Piatek-Jimenez and titled, “Innovations in the Teaching of College Calculus: A Literature Review.”

Rebecca Finkbeiner completed her Master’s Degree in Summer 2013. She completed two Plan B papers. The first was with Pete Vermiere and titled, “A Brief Survey of Perfect Numbers.” The second was with Ana Dias and was titled, “Developmental Mathematics: Best Teaching and Institutional Practices and Non-Traditional Courses.”

Andrew Schalk completed his Master’s Degree in Spring 2013. He completed one Plan B paper with Jean Chan titled, “Hilbert Kunz Functions for Certain Families of the Quotients of the Polynomial Rings.”

Shawn Witte successfully defended his Master’s Thesis in June 2013. His thesis title was “Covering regions with K-Transmitters.” His thesis advisor was Brad Safnuk.


Mohamed Amezziane is an Associate Professor who received his diploma of Industrial Engineering from L’Ecole Mohammadia des Ingeniéurs in Morocco in 1996. He then got his M.S. in Simulation Modeling and Analysis and his M.S. in Statistical Computing, both in 2000 from the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the same institution in 2004. After graduation, he joined DePaul University where he taught Statistics and Actuarial Science courses for eight years and supervised both undergraduate and graduate students’ research. His current research interests include Function Estimation, High-dimensional Data Analysis, and Network Traffic Modeling.

Debraj Chakrabarti is an Assistant Professor who received his Bachelor's Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering in 1998 and his Master's and Doctorate in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Since that time, he has held postdoctoral positions in Canada (University of Western Ontario) and the U.S. (University of Notre Dame) and regular positions in India (IIT Bombay and TIFR).

His research is in Analysis, more precisely in the area of Holomorphic Functions of Several Complex Variables. He uses techniques from the theory of Partial Differential Equations to study the behavior near the boundary of Holomorphic Functions defined in domains in the space of several variables. Outside mathematics, he likes traveling, reading, and the theater.

Ben Salisbury is an Assistant Professor coming to CMU by way of ICERM at Brown University. Ben obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics under the guidance of Kyu-Hwan Lee at the University of Connecticut in 2012 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the City College of New York. His research involves the Combinatorics of Crystal Bases, which are local bases of representations of the quantum group yielding exceptional combinatorial properties. He is interested in using tableaux-like realizations of crystal graphs to obtain new tableaux statistics, which can be used to express important functions from Algebraic Combinatorics, Representation Theory, and Number Theory.

Ben grew up near Providence, RI. He met his wife, Amanda, in their hometown of Lincoln, RI. His hobbies include being an avid sports fan of the New England area professional teams (Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins) and traveling. He has been a musician most of his life (guitar, bass, and drums).

New Tenure Track Faculty


J. Marcus Jobe is a Visiting Professor in the Mathematics Department at CMU for the Fall 2013 semester. J. Marcus Jobe recently retired from Miami University (Ohio) after 29 years of service (July 2013). He was a Full Professor in the Information Systems and Analytics Department, Farmer School of Business at Miami. His teaching and research was and continues to be in statistics. Specifically, Professor Jobe has taught courses in Quality Control, Regression, Multivariate Methods, Design of Experiments, and Introductory Statistics. His current research interests focus on Multivariate Quality Control, Multivariate Outlier Detection, and Measurement Quality. Professor Jobe is a two-time Senior Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine where he taught quality improvement methods over a two year period. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics (1984) from Iowa State University, his M.S. in Statistics from Oklahoma State University (1979), and his B.S. in Physics from the University of Central Oklahoma (1977). Professor Jobe has co-authored three textbooks and two English/Ukrainian glossaries. In addition to his work and interests described above, he enjoys tennis, trout fishing, and continued work in Ukraine.

Katie Soller graduated from Central Michigan University with a B.S. in Mathematics in 2006. She then pursued her Ph.D. in Mathematics at CMU. She expects to receive her degree in August 2014. Her research interests are in Linear Algebra and Combinatorics, specifically in Matrix Analysis and Graph Theory. In her free time, she enjoys reading, jogging, and spending time with her family.

New Visiting and Fixed Term Faculty


Richtmeyer-Foust Mathematics Award The Richtmeyer-Foust Award was inaugurated in 1968 by the Mathematics Department to honor Dr. Cleon C. Richtmeyer and Dr. Judson W. Foust. Dr. Richtmeyer served as Department Chair and as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Foust served as Professor of Mathematics and later as President of the University. This award is given to the outstanding senior majoring or minoring in mathematics. After an initial screening, the department chooses a group of finalists who are asked to submit information about their academic and their extra-curricular accomplishments and to write an essay discussing how their experiences at CMU have influenced them. A faculty vote determines the recipient, who receives a plaque, and his/her name is engraved on a trophy kept in a showcase in Pearce Hall. The 2013 recipient, Troy E. Klingler, was the 55th student to receive the Richtmeyer-Foust Award. The 2013 finalists for the award were Marie N. Ermete, Megan E. Haske, Sarah E. Johnson, Keith A. Novak, Anthony S. Pochini, and Stacy M. Siereveld. Edward H. Whitmore Mathematics Award The Edward H. Whitmore Award in Elementary Mathematics was established in 1990 by the Mathematics Department in honor of Dr. Edward H. Whitmore, who served the department for twenty-two years as Professor of Mathematics, fifteen of which were spent as Chairman of the department. The distinct differences in the mathematics program for elementary teachers make it appropriate for those students to be eligible for an award especially for them. The winner, who is chosen in a manner similar to that of the Richtmeyer-Foust Award, receives a plaque, and his/her name is engraved on a trophy kept in a showcase in Pearce Hall. The 2013 recipient for this award was Katelyn M. O’Bryan. She was the 30th student to receive the Whitmore Award. The 2013 finalists for this award were Taylor A. Funk, Ashley J. Horgan, Katie L. Kalajian, and Jessica L. Snow. Arnold Hammel KME Award This award was created for mathematics majors who are KME (Kappa Mu Epsilon) members to honor retired Professor and former KME Advisor Arnold Hammel. Marie N. Ermete and Leah Mays were the 2013 recipients. Jozefaciuk and Rutkowski Award As a tribute to Frank and Rita Jozefaciuk and Irene Rutkowski, their family created this endowed award for junior or senior mathematics majors with a minimum GPA of 3.4. The 2013 recipient of this award was Katelyn M. O’Bryan. Miller Award In honor of retired Professor William Miller and his wife, Delores Miller, this award was established for students who are juniors with a mathematics, statistics, or actuarial science major. Katelyn M. O’Bryan received the 2013 award. Richtmeyer Scholarship Dr. Cleon C. Richtmeyer bequeathed a scholarship fund for students who are mathematics majors. The 2013 recipients were Marie N. Ermete, Emily M. Howard, Sarah E. Johnson, Andrew S. Kunze, Kyle J. Manthei, Leah Mays, Michael J. Reimann, Kelly M. Schiess. Serier Scholarship In honor of Professor Lester H. Serier and his son, Jack D. Serier, this endowed memorial was established for junior or senior mathematics majors with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. The 2013 recipient was Casey L. Ferranti.

Mathematics Awards and Scholarships


St. Andre Scholarship Former College of Science and Technology Dean and Mathematics Professor Richard St. Andre and his wife, Karen, created this scholarship for sophomore students with majors in the Mathematics Department. Mary L. Houghton and Blake P. Ryan were the 2013 recipients of this scholarship. Whitmore Scholarship To commemorate the lives of Dr. Edward H. Whitmore and his son, Stephen H. Whitmore, an endowment was established by the family and friends for mathematics majors who have been admitted to the Teacher Education program. Kristine M. Stafford and Tyler J. Wippel were the 2013 recipients of this scholarship. Miles Actuarial Award Retired Professor Thomas Miles and his wife, Cindy Miles, created this award to help defray the expenses for students taking and passing Actuarial Exams. The 2013 recipients were Scott C. Alexander, Michael J. DeLaura, Kyle D. Janke, Peter Jaworski, Troy Klingler, Samantha L. Meadows, Christopher D. Richmond, Stacy M. Siereveld, and Kevin J. Whalen. Outstanding Tutoring Awards The 2013 Awards for outstanding tutoring went to Sarah E. Johnson, Earle M. Crosswait III, and James M. Kowalski. Honorable Mention went to Stacy M. Siereveld, Tim A. Reynhout, and Ryan V. Hines. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Busola O. Sanusi received the 2013 award for Master’s Degree students, with Honorable Mention going to Earle M. Crosswait III. David J. Grollimund received the 2013 Award for Ph.D. Students, with Honorable Mention going to James M. Kowalski.

Award Winners, Award Ceremony Spring 2013


Mahmoud Aldeni is working on a Ph.D. He earned a Master's Degree in Mathematics from The University of Jordan in 2011 and received his Bachelor's

Degree in Mathematics from The University of Jordan in 2008.

Raja Al-Gharaibeh is working on her Data Mining certificate. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Al Al-Bayt University, Jordan in 2012.

Alma Bazarbayeva is currently working towards an M.B.A. degree and a certificate in Data Mining. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and

Finance from Semey State University. She has been working in financial analysis and credit risk management in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the USA.

Katherine Bossaller is working on her Master’s degree in Mathematics. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at Northern Arizona University in 2013.

Katherine Haske is working on her Master’s degree in Mathematics. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from

Saginaw Valley State University.

Emily Kabbe is working on her Ph.D. in Mathematics. She earned her Bachelor’s degee in Mathematics from Chatham College in 2003 and her M.S. in Applied

Mathematics from North Carolina A&T State University in 2013.

Jinxin Li is working on her Master’s degree in Economics and a Data Mining certificate. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Nanjing

University of Science and Technology (China) in 2012.

New Funded Graduate Students


Joanna Mantone is working on her Master's Degree in Mathematics. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education and Special Education

from Molloy College in New York.

Nancy Matar is currently working on a Ph.D. She earned a Master's Degree in Mathematics from The University of Jordan in 2012 and received her Bachelor's

Degree in Mathematics from The University of Jordan in 2009.

Anthony Pochini is currently working on a Graduate Certificate in Data Mining. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and Mathematics, with a

concentration in Pure Mathematics, from Central Michigan University in 2013.

Christal Ross graduated from Saginaw Valley State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in May of 2013. She is a first-year graduate student at CMU who is

pursuing a Master’s Degree in Mathematics.

In Memoriam Wilbur “Tony” Waggoner passed away on September 23, 2013. Professor Waggoner was a faculty member in the mathematics department at CMU for 31 years, from 1956 through 1987. During that time, he also served as the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies for two years and was involved with the mathematics student organization, Kappa Mu Epsilon (KME). He eventually served as Business Manager for the KME journal and became KME National Treasurer.


http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/773381/Waggoner-Wilbur.php


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