News and Announcements
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.
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.
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.
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.
Upcoming Seminars
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 - MSB 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 Saddle-Point Optimization
Tue, Oct 23, 11:00AM - MSB 2112
Student Geo. : Miriam Kuzbary, Rice University
Higher Order Linking Numbers
Tue, Oct 23, 1:30PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Miriam Kuzbary, Rice University
Link Concordance and Groups
Wed, Oct 24, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Student App/Math : Jennifer Brown, UC Davis
Paired classical and quantum knot invariants and a K-theory clue for Heisenberg quantization.