Department of MathematicsBridging mathematics, statistics and medicine with new Duke professor https://today.duke.edu/2017/10/hau-tieng-wu-vital-signs read more about Hau-Tieng Wu: Vital Signs »
New Duke professor studies the math of moving fluids https://today.duke.edu/2017/10/alexander-kiselev-mixing-it read more about Alexander Kiselev: Mixing It Up »
Geometry of Redisctricting Conference (Nov 2-3) and Workshop (Nov 4-5) will be held at The Searle Center. For additional information, please follow this link: https://sites.duke.edu/gerrymandering/conference/ The Thursday-Friday conference is open to the public and free of charge. It will feature a combination of lectures and panel discussions on the many multidisciplinary aspects of the redistricting problem. This workshop is made possible by the generous support of several sponsors. read more about Gerrymandering Workshop @ Duke »
The 2017 IMA Prize in Mathematics and its Applications has been awarded to Jianfeng Lu, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics. Lu received this recognition for his many contributions in applied analysis, computational mathematics, and applied probability, in particular for problems from physics, chemistry, and material sciences. The unique strength of his research is to combine advanced mathematical analysis and… read more about Jianfeng Lu Awarded the 2017 IMA Prize in Mathematics and its Applications »
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has announced that it will present the third AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis to Lillian Pierce, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Duke University at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, CA in January 2018. For more information, please click here. read more about Pierce wins Sadowsky prize in Analysis »
Seven graduate students received their Phd in mathematics at the 2017 Graduation Ceremony: Philip Andreae: [Advisor:Mark Stern] Analytic Torsion, the Eta Invariant, and Closed Differential Forms on Spaces of Metrics Brian Fitzpatrick: [Advisor:Paul Aspinwall] Complete Mirror Pairs and Their Naive Stringy Hodge Numbers Hangjie Ji [Advisor:Thomas Witelski] Thin Films with Non-conservative Effects Trang Nguyen [Advisor:Stephanos Venakides] Solitons in Exciton-Polariton System:Reduced… read more about 2017 PhD Graduates »
Students and faculty enjoyed a break before exams to share food and conversation at the annual math party on April 24, 2017. Those who competed in the MCM/ICM competition received Duke Math shirts and certificates. Officers of DUMU and research students in Data+, DOmath and PRUV were introduced. The Karl Menger prize for excellence in math competitions was awarded to Trung Can, Alex Damian, Tony Qiao, and Cheryl Wang for their top scores on the Putnam Competition and to Vinit Ranjan, Junmo Ryang and Kelly Zhang… read more about Annual Duke Math Party »
Seth L. Warner, Math Professor Emeritus, died April 20, 2017. Seth joined the Duke faculty as a research instructor in mathematics in 1955, became a professor in 1965, and served 11 years as departmental chairman before his retirement in 1995. He published 33 articles and two texts, Topological Fields and Topological Rings, he also published a two-volume text on modern algebra in 1954, which was reprinted in 1990. Seth studied the organ under H. Frank Bozyan while at Yale, Melville… read more about Seth L. Warner, Math Professor Emeritus Dies »
On Sunday April 23, the Duke mathematics department hosted the fourth Triangle Area Graduate Mathematics Conference (TAGMaC). The event was cosponsored by the graduate student AMS and SIAM chapters along with the Information Initiative at Duke (iiD). Math graduate students from across the Triangle area (Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State) were invited to give 20 minute talks about their research. The topics ranged across all mathematical disciplines, from computational fluid mechanics to categorification of knot… read more about Triangle Area Graduate Mathematics Conference (TAGMaC) »
Graduate Student and new PhD, Hangjie (Jessie) Ji, was recognized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for her "outstanding efforts and accomplishments" on behalf of the Duke University SIAM chapter. She is pictured here with SIAM faculty representative, Professor Tom Witelski. Congratulations, Jessie! read more about SIAM Certificate Awarded to Hangjie Ji »
Vinit Ranjan, Kelly Zhang, and Junmo Ryang are a group of prospective math majors who all met in high school at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, where they first competed in MCM, but on separate teams. This year, they came together on one team to achieve the finalist ranking. The crux of their project involved a computational model of varying amounts of self driving cars and their effects on driving conditions. They ran the model many times to get data from which they performed further analysis. https… read more about Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) »
Phillip Andreae graduated from Duke with a PhD in Mathematics, specializing in geometry. After graduation in 2016, he joined Meredith College as an Assistant Professor. While at Duke, Dr. Andreae served as a department graduate student representative and co-organized the Graduate Student Geometry Seminar in the Department of Mathematics. He was awarded Captain L.P. & Barbara Smith Award for his excellent teaching in the Mathematics Department. He was also a Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) fellow in 2015-2016.… read more about Alumni Profile: Philip Andreae »
For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve problems by adding new values to the usual numbers. Now they’re investigating the unintended consequences of that tinkering. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170302-class-numbers-and-the-symmetries... read more about New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes: Prof. Lillian Pierce is featured in Quanta magazine »
Kevin Murgas (Biomedical Engineering, Class 2017), started working on this project during a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in mathematical biology in the summer of 2015. Together with his research mentor, Dr. Marc Ryser, they developed a new approach to modeling the dynamics of physiological bone remodeling – the process responsible for keeping our bones strong and healthy. By describing the process of bone remodeling in the language of evolutionary game theory, they developed and analyzed a three-… read more about New Approach to Bone Remodeling »
SIAM is the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. We formed this chapter to promote collaboration, interdisciplinary activities, and fellowship between graduate students in the Mathematics and other related departments. Our newly formed chapter is already hard at work planning the annual Math Slam department recruitment event and organize the Triangle Area Graduate Mathematics Conference (with the help of the AMS student chapter.) We are also actively recruiting more members to our student chapter. Membership… read more about New SIAM Chapter at Duke Mathematics! »
Lillian Pierce, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics has been offered a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Award (CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development Program) is a foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of the organization. Professor Pierce states,“I am… read more about Professor Lillian Pierce wins NSF CAREER Award and von Neumann Fellowship »
Matt Junge, a newly hired research assistant professor, taught at the Dan River Prison and Work Farm during the 2016 Autumn semester. The course in college algebra focused on solving polynomial, exponential and logarithmic equations. Students received college credit at the University of North Carolina via the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. Class met three days a week for three hours at a time. Students put in a lot of work to keep up with the quick pace. They were especially good at pooling together… read more about Math Beyond Bars »
http://www.reimagine-education.com/ read more about Paul Bendich from Data+ Wins Gold Award at Reimagine Education Conference »
This summer, North Carolina School of Science and Math student Mridu Nanda spent five weeks on the Duke campus working with James B. Duke Professor Rick Durrett. The topic of their research was Spatial Evolutionary Games, which can be used to study the competition and cooperation between different cell types in cancer. Mridu's time was divided almost equally between understanding the theory that had been developed , and doing simulations in order to obtain insights into some of the cases that could not be analyzed… read more about Spatial Evolutionary Games »
"Sixty-five mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2017, the program's fifth year", states Steve Ferruci, Senior Programs Coordinator of the AMS in a press release. Duke University Mathematics is delighted to have Professor Jian-Guo Liu named this year. Professor Liu responded, "I am honored to be named as a fellow of AMS, and it is so gratifying to receive this recognition for doing something I truly love and enjoy." Professor Liu… read more about Jian-Guo Liu Named as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) »
Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly will speak Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. at Duke University’s Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center https://today.duke.edu/2016/11/author-margot-shetterly-speak-nov-9-nasas... read more about Author Margot Shetterly to Speak Nov. 9 On NASA's Black Female Mathematicians "Hidden Figures" author to speak at the Bryan Center »
Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly will speak Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. at Duke University’s Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center Shetterly is the author of “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.” The talk is free and open to the public. A New York Times bestseller, “Hidden Figures” tells the story of the black women mathematicians at NASA who helped fuel some of America’s greatest… read more about The story of the black women mathematicians at NASA »
Steven J. Miller, Associate Professor of mathematics at Williams College, delivered the first Duke University Math Union (DUMU) guest lecture of the 2016-2017 year to an audience including nearly 50 undergraduates on Wednesday, September 7, 2016.. His talk, “Why the IRS cares about the Riemann Zeta Function and Number Theory (and why you should too!)” proved to be equally informative and entertaining. Afterwards, Miller, the director of a summer math research program at Williams, chatted with students about undergraduate… read more about Standing Room Only for DUMU Guest Lecture »
In a paper published in the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Rujie Yin, Bruno Cornelis, Gabor Fodor, Noelle Ocon, David Dunson, and Ingrid Daubechies present an algorithm that eliminates the visual discrepancies of cradling in X-rays. The algorithm—and its accompanying multiplicative model—can distinguish, isolate, and remove superfluous textures caused by cradling while leaving the painting’s original textures intact. https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/TabId/900/ArtMID/2243/ArticleID/1577... read more about Advanced Algorithm Improves Art Restoration Techniques »
Spring Breakthrough is a risk-free opportunity for first- and second-year students to explore their intellectual interests. For five days during spring break (March 12-16, 2017), they can participate in a mini-seminar designed to be intellectually stimulating and fun. These courses have no prerequisites, no grade or credit (but will be recorded on transcripts), and no fees. Eleven courses will be offered in a range of topics. Registration begins November 7. (https://undergrad.duke.edu/programs/spring-breakthrough) … read more about Math + Zombies + GOT = Spring Break »
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics, directed by Robert Bryant at Duke University. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-science/news-a... read more about Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics, directed by Robert Bryant at Duke University »
Ingrid Daubechies, a prominent mathematician whose pioneering work on wavelets is the foundation for millions of consumer products, has received a $1.5 million grant from the Simons Foundation. The Math + X Investigator award provides research funds to professors at American and Canadian universities to encourage novel collaborations between mathematicians and researchers in another field of science or engineering.http://today.duke.edu/2016/08/daubechies read more about Simons Foundation Awards Duke's Ingrid Daubechies $1.5M Grant »
The Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) is a week long workshop where companies bring real world problems to students and researchers in mathematics to find solutions. MPI takes place at a different university every summer. This is the first time Duke Mathematics has hosted the event. https://sites.duke.edu/dukeresearch/2016/07/06/taking-math-beyond-the-blackboard/ read more about Mathematical Problems in Industry »
The Duke University Math Union (DUMU) is devoted to organizing and providing resources to students interested in mathematics. Throughout the year, we invite guest lecturers, organize social events, and host a high school contest in mathematics. http://math.duke.edu/dumu-duke-university-math-union read more about Duke University Mathematics Union (DUMU) »
A thin liquid film is a layer of fluid that has a breadth much greater than its depth. A representative example is the tear film that coats your eye to protect it: the thickness of this coating is only a few micrometers but its breadth is a few centimeters, so the aspect ratio between the two length scales is about $10^{-4}$. It is difficult to control such thin films because direct contact with them can lead to rupture.By studying how physical properties,such as surface tension, affect the flow of thin films… read more about Modeling Temperature Dependence in Marangoni-driven Thin Films »