August 30, 2018
Clemson Mathematical Sciences is excited to announce the following new new members of the department. Please join us in welcoming them! Deborah Kunkel, Assistant Professor, Applied Statistics and Data Science Cynthia Ramiharimanana, Visiting Assistant Professor, Algebra and Discrete Mathematics April Thomas, Lecturer and STAT 3090 Course Coordinator Yu-Bo Wang, Assistant Professor, Applied Statistics and Data […]
August 27, 2018
The quote ‘I am the last President of the United States’ is attributed to James Buchanan, supposedly spoken either shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln and/or the secession of South Carolina. In an analogous but more optimistic (and much less profound) vein, I can say that I am the last Chair of the Department […]
August 27, 2018
Congratulations to all of the following awardees! Sloan Nietert of Mount Pleasant, a mathematical sciences and computer science double major, has been selected for a Fulbright Award, a program that aims to increase understanding between citizens of the United States and citizens of other countries. Nietert will spend the next nine months in Hungary as […]
August 27, 2018
Clemson is proud to have hosted several exciting conferences in the last year: The 32nd Clemson Mini-Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms was held on the Clemson campus, November 4, 2017. The Mini-Conference has had a sustained run of over 30 meetings held every year since 1986. It is organized by Mathematical Sciences faculty members […]
August 27, 2018
Associate Professor Matthew Macauley’s research proposal “Toric partial orders: theory and applications” was recently funded by the Simons Foundation. Professor Macauley describes one aspect of his research in the Algebra and Discrete Mathematics subfaculty: In 2004, biologist Joel Cohen wrote a paper titled “Mathematics is biology’s next microscope, only better; biology is mathematics’ next physics, […]
August 23, 2018
Four Mathematical Sciences faculty members have recently taken leadership positions in the college and in the department. Calvin Williams is now the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Excellence and Community Engagement. According to the college website, “Williams is responsible for student recruitment and success, helping to increase freshmen retention and six-year graduation rates for undergraduate students. […]
August 22, 2018
The Clemson University Actuarial Club has received several generous donations for reimbursing Clemson students who pass actuarial exams during the 2017-2018 academic year. $2500 from AXA $2500 from the Lincoln Financial Group $1000 from Patrick Davidson, who graduated from Clemson University in May 2014. Patrick’s $1000 donation was matched by his employer Oliver Wyman. Read […]
August 22, 2018
The second edition of the Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics was recently published by CRC Press. The nearly 1600-page volume was edited by a trio of editors including Clemson faculty members Douglas Shier (Emeritus) and Wayne Goddard. The handbook includes contributions from around 100 contributors including the following from Clemson faculty members: Joel V. […]
August 20, 2018
Clemson hosted several significant lectures in Mathematical Sciences last year, including the following. As part of Clemson’s NSF NRT Distinguished Speaker Series, Professor David Higdon of the Social Decision Analytics Laboratory at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech spoke in November on “A Small, Biased Sample of Experiences Involving Statistical Inference, Computational Modeling, and Big […]
August 20, 2018
It has been a productive year for Clemson’s NSF-funded Research Training Group (RTG) in Coding Theory, Cryptography and Number Theory. In March, the RTG hosted Gauri Joshi of Carnegie Mellon University for a seminar series on Distributed Storage, Coded Computing, and Rateless Codes. Dr. Joshi is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering […]
