News
September
09/28/2022
Mark Carpenter received a new DoD contract totaling $285,000 for statistical (including AI/ML) modeling and support. This work is in collaboration with Aerospace Engineering.
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Active Learning Spotlight: Collaboration counts in mathematics education
09/27/2022
In the new Academic Classroom and Laboratory Complex, or ACLC, Auburn students benefit from an elevated student experience with opportunities to work together and learn in a cutting-edge environment. Heather Haskell, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, teaches students in this new 151,000-square-foot facility.
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09/27/2022
As a 2003 Summer Bridge alum, Mary Aboko-Cole came to the Plains after graduating from Lee High School in Huntsville.
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Help Auburn University tackle the Marble Bowl and make a contribution to science
09/27/2022
You can help record local ecosystems while you get ready for this year’s Iron Bowl. As anticipation builds for the Iron Bowl, make a difference documenting wild plants, animals (not including pets), fungi, and other organisms. Your time and effort will help Auburn University win the Marble Bowl. That’s right – the Marble Bowl. And all you need is your smartphone.
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09/27/2022
Are you an undergraduate female student interested in physics?
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Auburn immunologist and evolutionary biologist collaborates with London researcher
09/20/2022
Kate Buckley, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, is the recipient of a $910,860 National Science Foundation, or NSF, award to learn more about immunology with echinoderms, or sea urchins and sea stars. The project, Regulatory control of the system-wide innate immune response in marine invertebrates, is funded by the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems and Direct for Biological Sciences within NSF.
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09/20/2022
As director of Auburn University’s site for the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative, known as AMSTI-AU or Region 9, Pam Norris will tell you that her role is exciting because no day looks the same. From talking with state AMSTI leaders to attending classroom visits and trainings alongside math and science specialists, Norris is leading AMSTI-AU by example—helping carry out AMSTI’s mission of providing impactful science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, instruction and resources that empower teachers and students across our state.
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Hear from Emily Balskus at the Schneller Frontiers Lecture on Sep. 28
09/20/2022
Please join us for this year’s Schneller Frontiers Lecture where Emily Balskus from Harvard University will deliver her talk titled Deciphering the Human Gut Microbiome with Chemistry. The lecture is scheduled for Sep. 28 at 3:45 p.m. in SCC 115. The host is Rahul Banerjee.
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DMS announces three members awarded Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
09/19/2022
We are happy to announce that three members of our faculty have been awarded Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians:
Hannah Alpert
Project Title: Disk configuration spaces and macroscopic scalar curvature
Le Chen
Project Title: Asymptotics for stochastic partial differential equations
Maggie Han
Project Title: Applied dynamical systems in biological, computational, and engineering models
Congratulations Hannah, Le, and Maggie!
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DMS announces that Dr. Lora Merchant is Academic Instruction Coordinator (AIC)
09/09/2022
Dr. Lora Merchant is Academic Instruction Coordinator (AIC) joining the leadership team. "The AIC provides leadership and direction in the Department’s instruction of undergraduate service courses, particularly precalculus service courses, by working closely with the Undergraduate Program Officer, Graduate Program Officer, and the Department Chair."
Congratulations, Dr. Merchant!
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09/06/2022
Elvan Ceyhan, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is the recipient of an award sponsored by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the project Adversarial Risk Analysis for Optimal Obstacle Evasion. The project, a collaboration with David Banks of Duke University, received an award of $358,000 with Auburn receiving $214,000 and Duke receiving $144,000.
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09/06/2022
Elvan Ceyhan, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is the recipient of an award sponsored by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) under award number N00014-22-1-2572 for the project Adversarial Risk Analysis for Optimal Obstacle Evasion. The project, a collaboration with David Banks of Duke University, received an award of $358,000 with Auburn receiving $214,000 and Duke receiving $144,000.
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COSAM students enrolled in Honors College increases 20 percent over past four academic years
09/06/2022
Tiffany Sippial, director of the Honors College at Auburn University, recently shared statistics that highlighted the current total number of Honors College students in each college, the percentage change over the last four academic years, and data relative to the Fall 2022 incoming Honors class.
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DMS's Jenda appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of IPAM.
09/01/2022
Overtoun Jenda has been appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA effective immediately. IPAM is an NSF Mathematical Sciences Institute with a mission "to build new inclusive interdisciplinary research communities, to foster the interaction of mathematics with a broad range of science and technology, to promote mathematical innovation, and to engage and transform the world through mathematics." The Board of Trustees is concerned with the strategic direction, governance, and management of IPAM.
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