News and Announcements
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.
We are happy to report that Prof. Rishidev Chaudhuri, a computational neuroscientist, with a joint appointment between Mathematics and Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior is the latest new member of the graduate group
in Applied Mathematics at UC Davis
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".
Upcoming Seminars
Tue, Jan 21, 11:00AM - MSB 3106
Student Geo. : Antoine Song, UC Berkeley
Heegaard Splittings and Min-Max Theory
Tue, Jan 21, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Fac. Research : Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis
An Invitation to algebraic geometry and knot invariants
Tue, Jan 21, 2:10PM - MSB 1147
Disc. Math : Anna Beliakova, University of Zürich
Non-semisimple quantum invariants
Tue, Jan 21, 3:10PM - MSB 3106
Geometry : Antoine Song, UC Berkeley
Local min-max theory and existence of minimal Heegaard surfaces
Wed, Jan 22, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Alg. Geometry : Svetlana Makarova, MIT
Generalizing the Strange Duality for K3 surfaces
Thu, Jan 23, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Student Research : Matthew Litman, UC Davis
Error Approximation for Backwards and Simple Continued Fractions