Applied Mathematics News for 2011
[12-Dec-11] Finals Schedule
In some cases there is a discrepancy between the
official finals schedule
and what has appeared in
MyNevada.
Please verify the meeting times you have
agreed upon with your students. If they are different than
the official schedule, contact Heather
Turk Fiecoat at 682-8081, Chelsey Brokman at 682-8075, Desi Ebner
at 682-6902 or Melisa Choroszy at 682-5907 to
verify the availability of your final class meeting space.
[28-Nov-11] College of Science Poster Competition
The 2011 College of Science Poster Competition will be held on Monday
November 28th in the Joe Crowley Student Union Ballrooms A and B.
Please encourage all of undergraduate and graduate students to
participate in this student competition. There are cash prizes
for the winners in both the Undergraduate and Graduate categories.
We had a record number of undergraduate and graduate submissions
last year and we are hoping for another successful showcase of our
students work!
[20-Nov-11] Software and Hardware Requests
The computing committee soliciting your requests for computer hardware,
software and other technology related items you would need for your
teaching or research duties.
We hope to get your request by November 20, 2011.
[22-Oct-11] Intermountain Math Competition
This Saturday 10/22 between 9:00-noon we will participate at the
Intermountain Math Competition. Please announce to any of your
students who might be interested. Contact Birant for more
information.
[29-Sep-11] Putnam Pizza Party
Thursday September 29 we will hold our annual shindig in
the conference room 315 at 5:30 PM. Please
announce to all whom you think might be interested and ask
them to let me know by Wednesday if they want pizza.
Feel free to come yourself if you want an opportunity to schmooze
with some of our top students.
Please join us Thursday, September 22, 2012, 2:30-3:45pm in DMS 102
for a talk by
Leonid I. Manevitch
titled
Energy exchange, localization, and transfer in finite oscillatory chains:
Weak coupling approximation.
Please join us Thursday, September 22, 2012, 2:30-3:45pm in DMS 102
for a talk by
Vrushali Bokil
titled
High-Order Staggered Finite Difference Methods for Maxwell's
Equations in Dispersive Media.
[29-Aug-11] Fall Grader Requests Due
Grader request forms are now in your mailboxes.
Please return the forms to Aleksey at the very
latest by Monday the first week of instruction.
[18-Jul-11] Thesis Defense
Please join the UNR Mathematics and Statistics Department today at
10am in DMS 104 for Andrew Hicks Master Thesis Defense
on clustering in multidimensional spaces with applications to
statistical analysis of earthquake clustering.
[09-May-11] FEMTEC 2011
The third international conference on
Finite Element Methods in Engineering and Science,
FEMTEC 2011,
will be held at Harvey's Casino and Resort
South Lake Tahoe on May 9 - 13, 2011.
[04-Apr-11] Department Meeting
The Provost has scheduled a meeting with the entire department
for 3:00 in DMS 315 to discuss details of the budget reduction plan that will
be announced April 5. All faculty are encouraged to come.
[28-Mar-11] Putnam Results
This year the UNR Putnam team came in 100 out of 450 competing teams
with two of our team members scoring in the top 12 and 15 percent.
Congratulations to Sall, Gaffney, Machen, Campo and Marshall.
[11-Mar-11] Thesis Defense
Please join the Mathematics and Statistics Department for Quan Zou's
thesis defense, "The
Role of Spatiotemporal Correlations
in the Encoding and Retrieval of Synaptic Patterns by STDP
in Recurrent Spiking Networks," March 11 at 9am in DMS 102.
[02-Mar-11] Save UNR Our Public University
March 2 is the National Day of Action in Support of Public Education.
Join the
Nevada Faculty Alliance (NFA), the Associated Students of
the University of Nevada (ASUN) and the Staff Employees Council (SEC)
on the UNR quad at 5pm as we show our support for public education.
Help us show the state and the world that we are united in our belief
that education is good for Nevada.
Contact 775/784-6742 or 775/225-4597.
Dr Sascha Schnepp from the Computational Electromagnetics Group
at Technical University Darmstadt will be speaking on the
Discontinuous Galerkin Method and its Application to the
Maxwell Time Domain Problem from 2:30-4pm in DMS 103.
[23-Feb-11] Faculty Forum on Budget
A discussion on what is looming for funding for the NSHE
and what faculty can do will be held at 11:45 in JCSU Ballroom A.
Speakers include Senator William Raggio, Professor Jim Richardson
and Professor Eric Herzik. Please RSVP by Feb 21 to the UNR Faculty Senate
Office lindak@unr.edu.
[24-Jan-11] Annual Reviews Due
Even though there is no merit money,
annual reviews are required. The use of digital measures is important
for calculating the productivity of the department and
individual members by central administration.
Please include your 2010 role statement
percentages with your self evaluation.
The chair needs all annual reviews by January 24.
[18-Jan-11] Spring Grader Requests Due
Copies of the grader request forms are in your mailboxes.
Please return the forms to Aleksey Telyakovskiy at the very
latest by Tuesday Jan 18 during the first week of classes.
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