News and Announcements
Dr. Iyer joins us from Princeton University's Department of Mathematics where he completed a 3 year NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Iyer graduated with his Ph.D from Brown University under the guidance of Prof. Yan Guo
Joseph Michael Teran
Professor, Mathematics
Snow Business: Scientific Computing in the Movies and Beyond
Dr. Ding is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California Davis. From 2018-2020, He was a research associate at Duke University working with Hau-Tieng Wu. Before that, he earned his PhD in statistics in 2018 from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Jeremy Quastel.
These courses listed on the PDF are courses our Applied Mathematics students may be interested in taking this Fall 2021.
Join the Mathematics and Statistics Department for the 13th Joint Colloquium, Tuesday, April 6th, 2021, 1:10pm featuring Prof. Caroline Uhler from MIT. The talk title is "Causal Inference in the Light of Drug Repurposing for COVID-19."
Please check out the courses being offered in other departments that might be of interest to you and your research.
We have four new videos about mathematics graduate studies at UC Davis.
Prof. Teran recently joined the ranks of the UC Davis Mathematics department from UCLA where he has taught and advised PhD students for 13 years. His research areas involve scientific computing, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and computer graphics.
These courses may be of interest to all graduate students but Applied Math students in particular. Please contact the instructor for more information.
The INFORMS Optimization Society 2020 Farkas Prize is awarded to Jesus De Loera in recognition of his pioneering work at the intersection of discrete mathematics, optimization and algebraic geometry.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering and computer science professor Raissa D’Souza will bring her expertise in network science to one of the world’s most prominent peer-reviewed journals as a new member of Science magazine’s Board of Reviewing Editors.
Martin Fraas is a mathematical physicist. He was born in Czechoslovakia and received his M.A. and PhD. degrees from Charles University in Prague. He had postdoctoral positions in the Technion (Israel) and ETH (Switzerland). Martin's first position in the US was in Virginia Tech, where he was an Assistant Professor in the mathematics department up until his move to UC Davis math department. Within mathematical physics, he focuses on studying the mathematical structures of quantum mechanics. He worked on open quantum systems, adiabatic theory, and quantum estimation theory. Most recently, his work focuses on topological phases of matter, a topic originating in condensed matter physics, and quantum trajectories, a topic originating in quantum optics.
Fernanda Valdovinos is a theoretical ecologist and network scientist. She recently joined (July 1st 2020) UC Davis as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, and before then she was Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems since January 2018. Her group studies the structure and dynamics of ecological networks at ecological and evolutionary scales; including their resilience to biodiversity loss, biological invasions, climate change, and exploitation by humans. Her main research lines include plant-pollinator systems and food-webs, which she studies using a combination of mathematical and computational approaches. Valdovinos got her PhD in 2014 on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chile, and then conducted her postdoc studies at the University of Arizona and spent part of her postdoc time at UC Berkeley. For more information visit: www.fsvaldovinos.com
Applied Mathematics at UC Davis welcomes a new faculty member of the graduate group. Professor Harishankar Manikantan. He is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and he works on mathematical modeling of continuum mechanics, and is broadly interested in problems involving fluid dynamics, multiphase flows, elasticity, soft matter, numerical methods, rheology, biophysics, hydrodynamic stability, nonlinear dynamics, and pattern formation.
Upcoming Seminars
Tue, Jul 5, 2:00PM - ZOOM
Applied & PDEs : Shaofeng Deng
PhD Exit Seminar: Performance Analysis of Spectral Clustering