Prof. Amy Myers attended a July workshop and conference on the patterns of permutations in Zurich, Switzerland.
Aisha Mechery, A.B./M.A. 鈥20, and Ellie Lee 鈥20 organized a November workshop for math majors thinking about graduate school.
Mechery and doctoral student Isaac Sundberg started a Directed Reading Program (DRP) in the Math Department this fall. The DRP is an initiative that matches undergraduate students with graduate student mentors to work together on a reading project. The pair work together to read through a mathematical resource (e.g., part of a book or paper). At the end of the semester, the mentee prepares a presentation, given at the DRP Symposium. Any student interested in learning a mathematical topic outside of their current coursework can work on a DRP project.
Sophia Schein, A.B./M.A. '20, and Sandy Chen '21 presented their poster 鈥淚nvariants and Co-invariants of Linear Representations鈥 at the 今日吃瓜 Summer Science Research symposium in September 2019. They also presented their research in the DMC the same month.
Last summer, Prof. Lisa Traynor was a project leader for a workshop 鈥淲omen in Geometry鈥 in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her group had six members, one of whom was Orsola Capovilla-Searle '15, who is now a graduate student at Duke.
Traynor was also an organizer and project leader last summer for the workshop 鈥淲omen in Symplectic and Contact Geometry鈥 (WiSCon for short)! Her group had nine members and included Ziva Myer, Ph.D. '17, and Samantha Pezzimenti, Ph.D. '18.
In July, AJ Vargas, a current graduate student, attended a two-week workshop in Montreal, Canada on 鈥淐urrent Trends in Symplectic Topology.鈥
Luka Aleksandar Mili膰evi膰, son of Professors Djordje and Liz Mili膰evi膰, joined the world on Aug. 14, 2019. Both proud parents are on leave for this academic year, and in the spring, Luka will travel to Bonn, Germany, so they can pursue research with collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
Prof. Djordje Mili膰evi膰 has been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant on 鈥淒istribution and analytic aspects of cusp forms."
Graduate student Lindsay Dever attended a summer school on 鈥淟2-Torsion and Symmetric Spaces鈥 at the University of G枚ttingen, Germany.
The annual Math Majors Summer Research/Internships Panel took place on Sept. 10, 2019. Panelists included Shannon Fisher '20, data management intern in Energy Office for City of Philadelphia; Becca Genyk '20, integrations summer associate at HealthVerity in Philadelphia; Juliana Gonzalez (HC '20), sales and trading summer analyst at Citi in N.Y.; Lila Hernandez '21, operations intern at Brinker Capital in Berwyn, Pa.; Ellie Lee '20, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash.; Ruth McLeod '19, summer intern at Youth Engineering and Science in Philadelphia; Mechery, summer @ICERM REU at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; Women in Math program at Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; Undergraduate Summer School at Park City Mathematics Institute, Utah; SUM Workshop in Applied Topology at Georgia Institute of Technology; Young Mathematicians Conference at Ohio State University; and Joan Ndichu '21, outreach team intern at Grid Alternatives in Washington, D.C.
Thirteen senior math majors gave 10-minute thesis presentations on either Nov. 18, 2019 or Dec. 4, 2019. Thesis topics included transverse knots, the portfolio selection problem, the mathematical modeling of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, mortality modeling of NBA players, and modeling anchovy dispersal in the Puget Sound.
Luka Aleksandar Mili膰evi膰, son of Professors Djordje and Liz Mili膰evi膰, joined the world on Aug. 14, 2019.
