August 20, 2018
Clemson’s chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) recently organized several events related to diversity in the Mathematical Sciences. November 30: A celebration of the life and work of the first female Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, featuring a lecture by Martin Schmoll http://newsstand.clemson.edu/student-groups-to-honor-legacy-of-renowned-mathematician-at-nov-30-event/ March 1: Group travel to UNC Asheville to hear “Hidden […]
August 10, 2018
Spring 2017 Semester Luke Giberson (PhD) Advisor: Kevin James Dissertation: “A Tour Through Frobenius Distributions of Elliptic Curves” Currently at the National Security Agency Brandon Goodell (PhD) Advisor: Jim Coykendall Dissertation: “Assessing Non-Atomicity in Group of Divisibility” Currently at Monero Research Lab/Postdoc. Researcher Sherli Koshy Chenthittayil (PhD) Advisor: Elena Dimitrova Dissertation: “Chaos to Permanence: […]
August 10, 2018
Graduate students Anna Bachstein, Travis Baumbaugh, Todd Fenstermacher, Soumendra Ganguly, and Professor Emerita Renu Laskar had the opportunity to attend the 49th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing during March 5-9. Dr. Laskar presented a survey on matchings in graphs, Anna and Todd presented work on perfect domination of chess boards, and […]
August 10, 2018
Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences students Luna Bozeman, Sloan Nietert, Polly Payne, and Andrew Shore (double-major with Physics) were awarded Savannah River National Laboratory University Scholarships. Only 18 of these scholarships were awarded for the entire university. The awards are for $4,000 and can be used for tuition, fees, books, room and board expenses. See the articles […]
August 8, 2018
Associate Professor Chris McMahan and his coauthors were awarded “Best Paper in Biometrics by an IBS Member” for 2017 by the International Biometric Society and the “ASA 2018 Outstanding Statistical Application Award” by the American Statistical Association for their paper “Hierarchical group testing for multiple infections.” The paper is co-authored with Peijie Hou, Joshua Tebbs, […]
March 7, 2018
The AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Student Chapter is pleased to announce that Dr. Nicole Joseph of Vanderbilt University will be coming to give a talk on inclusivity. Information on this talk can be found below. Title – I DO (NOT) Belong: Experiences of Black Women and Girls in Mathematics Education Speaker – Nicole […]
