Mathematics and Statistics NEWS
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The Department Administrative Assistant, Tatjana Kazan, is retiring this year after many years of service. We all wish her well and a long and happy retirement.
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The Department mourns the loss of Fr. Richard J. VandeVelde, S.J. Fr. VandeVelde earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and taught mathematics and computer science at Loyola from 1969 until his recent retirement. He served as Chair of this department from 1970 to 1977 and as Dean of Mathematical and Natural Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1982 to 1985. His research interests included algebraic topology, programming languages, and graph theory. Condolences may be sent to the Loyola Jesuit community, Arrupe House, LSC.
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- Dr. Rafal Goebel has been awarded the prestigious 2009 SIAG/Control and Systems Theory Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. More information on the SIAG/Control and Systems Theory Prize may be found at: http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/siagcst.php
- Dr. Robert Jensen will be giving an invited talk at the Pacific Institute for Mathematics in Vancouver, Canada this summer. After returning, Dr. Jensen will be leaving to give an invited talk at Linkoping University in Sweden.
- Dr. Stepehen Doty has returned after a research leave of absence. Dr. Doty spent his leave under a Mercator Fellowship at several universities in Germany.
- Dr. Martin Buntinas was awarded a research leave of absence for Fall Semester 2009.
- Drs. Gerald and Anne McDonald will be on leave Fall Semester 2009.
- Dr. Tim O'Brien is teaching statistics in Thailand for Summer 2009.
- Dr. Liping Tong is doing statistical medical research at the Loyola University Medical Center.
- Dr. Anthony Giaquinto traveled to Luxembourg this summer to attend an international conference on Algebra.
- Kristen Dickey, an undergraduate Statistics student, was chosen to participate in a one week workshop on statistical modeling and analysis at NC State, all expenses paid. In Kristen's own words: "I was able to go and participate in this workshop! It actually went very well. There was a total of 19 of us from all around the country-(Washington, Texas, New Hampshire, California...). I really enjoyed it because we not only spent time listening to various lectures from grads, post docs, and professors, but we were also able to put what they had taught us (and things we already knew) to use when we did more of a hands-on project toward the end of the week. Also, on one of the days they had two panelists planned- one with graduate students talking all about grad school and the process of getting in and the other with people from industry and acedemia talking about their jobs. Overall I found it to be a great experience!"
- Two undergraduates in mathematics, Theresa Kamykowski and Margaret VanDuyne, were selected to participate in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Secondary Mathematics Education (Combinatorics, Design Theory, and Graph Theory) this summer at Illinois State University.
