News and Announcements

Course Announcements Fall 2018
GGAM member Prof. Alan Hastings receives major new grants
Prof. Hastings, Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, received a collaborative $1M grant from the National Science Foundation for "Integrating statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics to understand emergent synchrony and phase transitions in biological systems" for 2018–2022 and another NSF grant for "Metacommunity dynamics: integrating local dynamics, stochasticity and connectivity". Prof. Hastings' research area is also featured in his recent coauthored review article in Science, "Transient phenomena in ecology".
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GGAM member Prof. Jane-Ling Wang receives 2018 ICSA Distinguished Achievement Award
Prof. Wang received this award from the International Chinese Statistical Association "for significant contributions to statistical theory and methods in survival analysis, functional data analysis, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, nonparametric maximum likelihood, smoothing and dimension reduction; for in-depth interdisciplinary work in aging research, demography, medicine and neuroscience; and for long-term, tireless, unwavering support and outstanding leadership for the ICSA and the statistical community."
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GGAM welcomes Prof. Javier Arsuaga
He is a professor in the Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology and in the Dept. of Mathematics. His research concerns the analysis of data in molecular biology and in particular in the field of DNA, 3D chromosome structure and genetics of chromosome aberrations. His methods include random knotting, topological data analysis and numerical methods in statistical physics of polymers.
Course Announcements Spring 2018
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GGAM Mini-Conference 2018 with Lunar New Year celebration
Mark your calendars for our mini-conference, which will take place on Thursday, February 15, all afternoon. There will be inspiring talks by GGAM faculty, a poster session, and a reception with Lunar New Year celebration.
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Professor Alan Hastings speaker in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute online colloquium
GGAM member Professor Alan Hastings (Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy) will speak about "Dynamics and control of spatial ecological populations" in the MBI online colloquium, Wednesday, February 14th.
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Mathematics department newsletter 2017
Read about new Krener Assistant Professor Paloma Gutierrez Castillo's work in fluid mechanics; the research highlight "Quantum States of Matter" by GGAM member Prof. Bruno Nachtergaele; an update on recent Applied Math Ph.D. alumni, including 2013 alumna Wenjing Liao, who is now a tenure-track assistant professor at Georgia Tech; and more.
Course Announcements Winter 2018

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  • GGAM Mini-Conference 2017

    GGAM Mini-Conference 2017

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    GGAM member Prof. Rademacher and his collaborators James Voss and Mikhail Belkin apply their new spectral clustering method to image segmentation

  • Swimming in viscoelastic fluids

    Swimming in viscoelastic fluids

    GGAM member Prof. Bob Guy explains about his research with GGAM member Prof. Becca Thomases at the GGAM miniconference 2016

  • Extreme Functions

    Extreme Functions

    GGAM member Prof. Matthias Köppe and Applied Math Ph.D. student Yuan Zhou investigate the infinite-dimensional Gomory–Johnson relaxation of mixed-integer optimization problems

  • GGAM miniconference 2016

    GGAM miniconference 2016

    Members of the Applied Math graduate student community at the GGAM miniconference 2016 reception

  • The Perfect Wave

    The Perfect Wave

    Read more about Professor Steve Shkoller's favorite waves in his research essay "The Perfect Wave"

  • Theoretical Ecology

    Theoretical Ecology

    GGAM member Prof. Alan Hastings in collaboration with Brett Melbourne uses experiments with beetles and stochastic models to study the effect of global change

  • Relativistic Shockwaves

    Relativistic Shockwaves

    Read about work by GGAM member Prof. Blake Temple and 2011 Applied Math Ph.D. graduate Moritz Reintjes on relativistic shockwaves

  • Compressed Sensing

    Compressed Sensing

    GGAM member Prof. Miles Lopes contributes to Compressed Sensing with his work on Sparsity Estimation

Upcoming Seminars

Thu, Oct 18, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Student Geo. : Tommy Hogan, UC Davis
A geometric perspective on adversarial perturbations

Thu, Oct 18, 3:10PM - MSB 2112
Applied & PDEs : Annalaura Stingo, UC Davis
Global existence of small solutions to a model wave-Klein-Gordon system in 2D

Fri, Oct 19, 12:00PM - MSB 2112
QMAP : Saebyeok Jeong, SUNY Stony Brook/Simons Center
Opers, surface defects, and Yang-Yang functional

Mon, Oct 22, 11:00AM - MSB 1147
Disc. Math : Noah White, UCLA
From RSK to cactus group actions on Coxeter groups

Mon, Oct 22, 3:10PM - Mathematical Sciences Building 2112
Math Bio. : Facundo Mémoli, Ohio State University
Stable Signatures for Dynamic Networks via Zigzag Persistence.

Mon, Oct 22, 4:10PM - MSB 1147
Data & Dec. : Lihong Li, Google Inc.
Reinforcement learning as a saddle point

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