Departmental Highlights and Upcoming Events

Seminars and Colloquia

 

Sam Fleisher

Wednesday, November 12, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 and via Zoom

Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Mathematics in the Dodgers Front Office

Dr. Sam Fleischer

Senior Quantitative Analyst - Los Angeles Dodgers

   

Friday, November 14

One-day crash course on the mathematical foundations of deep learning

Dr. Maziar Raissi

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, UC Riverside

Maziar Raissi
   
Amir Moradifam

Wednesday, November 19, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 and via Zoom

Determining Both the Source of a Wave and Its Speed in a Medium form Boundary Measurements

Dr. Amir Moradifam

Associate Professor of Mathematics

University of California, Riverside

 

Most Recent Student Publications by MATH 325 (Problem Solving Class) Students

MATH 325 Problem Solving Class

Most Recent Other Student Publications

  • Kokado, K. (graduate student) and Tóth, C.D. (faculty):
    • Nonrealizable planar and spherical occlusion diagrams, in Discrete and Computational Geometry. Graphs, and Games (selected papers from JCDCGGG 2022), LNCS 14364, Springer, 2026, pp. 288-303. https:doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00281-5_17
  • Shahinian, T. (graduate student) and Mojirsheibani, M. (faculty) (2025) 
    • On nonparametric regression with incomplete data via inverse-weighting and their convergence in Lp norms. Mathematical Methods of Statistics (Springer), Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 435-457, 2025
  • B. Ismalej, B (undergraduate student) and Evans, K. (faculty)
    • Automating Large-Scale Detection and Classification of Larger Than Life Cellular Automata Patterns 2025 IEEE 15th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2025, pp. 01069-01074
  • Vargas, H (undergraduate student) and Neubauer, M. (faculty)
    • Diagonal Sequences of Integer Partitions, Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Volume 25, (2025), #A60, 17pages
  • Hashemi-Alavi, P. (graduate student) and Zambom, A.Z. (faculty)
    • Variable Selection for Variable Length Markov Chains with Exogenous Covariates. STAT, vol.14, n. 2, pp = e70061,2025

 

Putnam Competition

 

Ph.D. Candidates

 

Petros Mavromichalis

Petros Mavromichalis

Passed qualifying exams and has a PhD Thesis advisor 

Dr. Frauke Bleher

Iowa University

Haidee Ruvalcaba

Oregon State University
Haidee Ruvalcaba
Harmony Vargas

Harmony Vargas

University of Nebraska Lincoln

Our Graduates and Awardees

Most Recent Publications

Sungjin Kim

Dr. Sungjin Kim

A Simple Proof of Merca’s Recurrence for Distinct Partitions

The American Mathematical Monthly, Ref.: Ms. No. MONTHLY-D-25-00428R3258447334

 

 

New Tenure-Track Faculty – Welcome!

Jun Li

                Dr. Jun Li

                      Assistant Professor

                  Dr. Ryan Moruzzi

                        Assistant Professor

      

Ryan Moruzzi

 

New Promotions – Congratulations!

Turbo Ho

Dr. Turbo Ho

Associate Professor

Dr. Ali Sharadqah

Professor

Ali Sharadqah

     

    Current Grants

    Maria D'Orsogna

    Dr. Maria D'Orsogna

    • Army Research Office (4/15/2023-4/14/2026)
      • Title: Identifying drivers of discontent, advancing social cohesion, and promoting resilient decision-making through modeling and data analysis
      • NSF Grant (9/15/2023-8/31/2026)
        • Title: Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a high-performance computer cluster for computational biology (coPI)

    Dr. Jing Li

    • NSF Grant (8/15/2023-7/31/2026)
      • Title: Collaborative Research: Structured Population Dynamics Subject to Stoichiometric Constraints
    Jing Li
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    Dr. Jason Lo

    •  Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant (9/2024-8/2027)
      • Title: Reasoning in Autonomous Systems via Wiring Diagrams

    Dr. Majid Mojirsheibani

    • NSF (8/31/2023-8/31/2026)
      • Title: RUI: Predictive Models with Incomplete and Fragmented Observations, and New Advances in Virtual Re-sampling for Big Data
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    Ali Pakzad

    Dr. Ali Pakzad

    • NSF Grant (8/15/2025-7/31/2027)
      • Title: Applied Data Assimilation in Turbulence Modeling: Bridging Theory and Computation

    Dr. Csaba Toth

    • -NSF Grant (9/1/2022-8/31/2026)
      • Title: Optimization on Geometric Spanner Networks from a Combinatorial Perspective
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