News and Announcements
The problem of comparing the shapes of surface arises in many fields,
including facial recognition, image processing, brain cortex analysis,
protein structure analysis and computer vision. It is referred to by
names such as surface registration, surface warping, best shape
analysis and geometric morphometrics. Hass and Koehl recently introduced a new
method to compare the shapes of two genus-zero surfaces (surfaces with no
holes) and to give an alighment between them.
Dr. Mariel Vazquez, a Professor of Mathematics, and of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and a CAMPOS Faculty Scholar at the University of California Davis, has joined the GGAM faculty. She is a mathematical biologist whose research focuses on the applications of topological and discrete methods to the study of DNA.
The paper, with co-lead author Damien Woods and other coauthors, has already received press coverage. Dr. Doty is working on theoretical aspects of molecular programming. He recently received an NSF CAREER grant titled Error-Free, Uniform and Composable Chemical Computation.
GGAM members Prof. Raissa D'Souza and Prof. Jim Crutchfield have just had
a paper accepted in Science
The article, coauthored with Benjamin Friedlander and with 2017 Applied Math Ph.D. graduate Shuyang Ling, appears on the front page of the news journal of he Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Join us for the GGAM Miniconference on Thursday Feb 28, with short talks from GGAM faculty members Profs. Javier Arsuaga, Krishna Balasubramanian, Becca Thomases, Xin Liu, and Gerry Puckett, a poster session, and a reception.
Liu, a member of the Department of Computer Science, is recognized for her contributions to the design of cross-layer resource allocation algorithms for cellular and cognitive radio networks.
"Working in the area of analysis, Luli has distinguished himself in the difficult mathematics of fitting smooth functions to large data. His research touches on many topics, notably harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and computational algebraic geometry, and has connections to theoretical computer science as well as applications to neurosurgery."
He works at the interface of statistics, optimization and machine learning with a focus on addressing inferential and computational aspects. He received his Ph.D from Georgia Tech. After appointments in Princeton University and and UW-Madison, he joined the Department of Statistics, UC Davis in Fall 2018. He has received an Facebook fellowship award and an ICML best paper runner up award.
Read about research of GGAM members Prof. Jesus De Loera (algebraic and geometric methods in optimization) and Prof. Blake Temple ("Crinkled Spacetime"); a profile of Dr. Alex Berrian, who graduated from the program in 2018 and is now an Audio Research Engineer at Gracenote; an update from the UC Davis Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM); and more topics.
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".
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."
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.
