Grad News – 2018

2018

1. Nathaniel Adu and Qiyu Sun attended the 2018 Field of Dreams at Saint Louis, organized by Math Alliance, and presented at the Graduate Fair from November 2 to 4, 2018.
2. Congratulation to Mangalama Dewasurendra  to receive the 2018 Graduate Research Excellence Award, to Frederick Reid and Majid Noroozi  to receive the 2018 Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, and to Pawan Gupta and Ramchandra Rimal to receive the 2018 GraduateTeaching Assistant Award.
3. The graduate program has initiated a UCF Math graduate association.The association is dedicated to connecting the diverse UCF math graduate community through mentoring program, graduate workshops/seminars and activities. The association will coordinate the graduate mentoring program (senior GTA help new graduate students on their study and teaching), and organize some activities for all graduate students to participant. Elliot Blackstone is appointed as the first President of the Association. The association organized the first event, Potluck and Friendly Gathering, on  October 20, 2018
   
4. Joseph Brennan and Qiyu Sun took the 2018 graduate recruit trip from October 15 to 19, 2018 and they visited Kennesaw State University, University of North Alabama, University of Mississippi, University of South Alabama and University of West Florida.
   
5. The 2018 UCF Graduate Fair held on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from 4:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m. in the UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom. The fair offers an open house-style event that is free and open to anyone interested in a doctoral, master’s, specialist or certificate program at UCF.  Joseph Brennan, Rasika Rajapakshage and Qiyu Sun attended in the  graduate fair and asked questions by perspective students.
   
6. Graduate Rajitha Ranasinghe will give a talk on Combinatory Analysis 2018,A Conference in Honor of George Andrews’ 80th Birthday,  Penn State University, June 21-24, 2018.
7. Dr. Rajitha Puwakgolle Gedara (advisor Xin Li) earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation titled, “In Quest of Bernstein Inequalities: Rational Functions, Askey-Wilson Operator, and Summation Identities for Entire Functions.”  He took a senior lecturer position at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka after graduation (08/2018)
8.  Dr. Kyle Trainor (Advisor: Joseph Brennan) earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation titled, “Hilbert Series for Graphs, Hypergraphs, and Monomial Ideals.” (08/2018)
9. Dr. Alexander York (Advisor: Joseph Brennan) earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation titled, “Quasi-Gorenstein Modules.” Now he work as a lecturer at University of Florida after graduation. (08/2018)
10. Ajani Ruwandhika De Vas Gunasekara graduated with a master degree and took a lecturer position at Sri Lanka.
11. Wei Yan is offered by Wells Fargo Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina asQuantitative Intern. in Summer 2018. The internship provides her a great opportunity to work with and implement mathematical finance model for risk segmentation and stress testing for a variety of lending products. Also it will help her to reconsider some mathematical problems from industrial point of view and to practice stochastic analysis, control theory and coding techniques.
    
12. The department hold annual awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.  Congratulate to Panpan Chen and David Guinovart to receive Dr. Ed Norman Award for Excellence in Mathematics, Christian Bosse for Dr. Lee Armstrong Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Vanessa Lowry for MALL Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Tutoring.

    

13. Joseph Brennan and Qiyu Sun represented the UCF Math Graduate program to  attend the TROYMathFest at Troy University, Alabama, April 6-7, 2018.
14. Christian Bosse, Rajitha Puwakgolle and Jingmei Zhang had poster presentations and Ajani De Vas Gunasekara has oral presentation the Fifteenth Annual Graduate Research Forum on April 3, 2018 hosted by the UCF College of Graduate Studies. The Graduate Research Forum is an opportunity for students to showcase their research and creative projects and to receive valuable feedback from faculty judges.
15. Dr. Arita Dutta, postdoctoral researcher at the Visual Computing Center at  KAUST, Saudi Arabia, visited the department and gave an alumnus talk on March 9, 2018 to talk about his graduate life at UCF and his  experience after graduation.

    

16. Christian Bosse and Jingmei Zhang are invited to give a presentation at the 49th International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, March 4-6, 2018, at Florida Atlantic University.
17. Joseph Brennan, Ted Juste and  Qiyu Sun attended the 2018 Gulf States Math
    Alliance Conference at  Tulane University, February 23-25, 2018, and have a presentation of the math graduate program.

    

18. Nazar Emirov is invited to attend Spring School hosted by the DASIV Smart State Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, February 22-25, 2018.
19. Pawan Gupta, Rasika Rajapakshage, Rajita Ranasinghe and Ramchandra Rimal  presented their research on the 2018 Joint Meetings Of The Florida Section Of The
    Mathematical Association of America And The Florida Two-Year College Mathematics
    Association, Florida Atlantic University, Davie Campus, February 9 – 10, 2018.
20. Professor Akram Aldroubi gave a career talk on February 2, 2018. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a fellow of American Mathematical Society and editors of several journals on Fourier Analysis and Sampling Theory.  His main interest is on harmonic analysis, functional analysis, wavelet theory, frame theory, sampling theory, approximation theory, image processing and biomathematics.  His papers is cited more than 14000 times by Google Scholar. 
21. Qiyu Sun and Rajitha Puwakgolle represented the program to attend at graduate school fair at AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 10-13, 2018. The graduate school fair is an opportunity to attract attention and to create interest for students in the mathematical sciences.