April 28, 2022

2021

  1. Congratulation to Feng Yu to receive the 2021 Outstanding dissertation award, Yaxuan Wang to receive the 2021 Graduate Research Excellence Award, Oluwaseun Farotimi and Xing Fan to receive the 2021 Graduate Teaching Excellence Award and  Teresa Bosch to receive the 2021 Lee Armstrong Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.  (12/21)
  2. In Fall 2021, the program offers  55 graduate teaching assistantship for PhD students, 7 graduate teaching assistantship for master students and 1 graduate research assistantship.  2 students are offered external internships.  (08/21)
  3. 12 PhD students and 9 Master students joined the graduate program in Fall.  All PhD students and 4 Master students are offered with graduate teaching assistantship, tuition waiver and health insurance coverage, and one PhD student is offered with UCF Graduate Dean’s fellowship. They received their master/bachelor degrees from Concordia University SGW (Canada); Depaul University; Florida State University; Grand Velley State University; Nova Northeastern University; Pontifica Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Southeast Missouri State University;  Stetson University; SUNY Cortland; Tribhuvan University (Nepal); University of Central Florida; University of Florida; University of North Florida; University of South Florida, and Winthrop University. (08/21)
  4. In the fall 2021 semester, the program offers 14 graduate courses, including  Advanced Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory,  Algebraic Topology, Computational Method for Financial Mathematics I, Financial Mathematics II,  Functional Analysis, Mathematical Analysis, Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning, Mathematical Modelling II, Mathematical Statistics, Integral Equations and Calculus of Variation, Optimization Theory,   Scientific Computing, Stochastic Calculus, and Topics in Advanced Calculus (08/2021)
  5. David Guinovart Sanjuan passed the dissertation defense and graduated with a PhD awarded. The dissertation committee consists of Kuppalapalle Vajravelu (Chair), Reinaldo Rodriguez Ramos, Ram N. Mohapatra and Hansen A. Mansy. The title of his dissertation is ““Computation of effective properties of smart composite materials with generalized periodicity using the two-scales asymptotic homogenization method. (07/21)
  6. Feng Yu passed the dissertation defense and graduated with a PhD awarded. The dissertation committee consists of Teng Zhang (Chair), Marianna Y. Pensky, Jason Richard Swanson and George Atia.  The title of his dissertation is Regularized Estimations in Some Statistical Problems. Dr. Feng Yu accepted a postdoc position at University of Albany after graduation. (07/2021)
  7. In the summer 2021, the program offers  23 graduate teaching assistantship and 5 graduate research assistantship.  3 students are offered Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) at Argonne National Laboratory, Quantitative Model Analyst Internship at Valley Bank, and Clinical SAS Internship at Intego  Group respectively.  (05/21)
  8. Xing Fang and Hanna Reed were accepted with partial financial support, to participate in the sixteenth Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp, which will be held from June 9–12, 2021 and  the Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop, which will be held from June 14–18, 2021. (05/21)
  9. Wisdom Ogala was offered an internship with the Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) program at Argonne National Laboratory. This program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS). This internship appointment is awarded  in recognition of students’ past achievements, academic and career objectives, and interest in the NSF DMS mission. (05/21)
  10. Yuchen Cao is  selected to receive a Student Travel Award in the form of a registration waiver for the SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM21) to be held virtually on June 1 – 4, 2021. Funding for this waiver is made possible by the National Science Foundation (NSF).  (05/21)
  11. Thialita Nascimento is supported to participate the 2021 MSRI Summer Graduate School: Metric Geometry and Geometric Analysis. MSRI was founded in 1982 and  has been primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) . Approximately 2,000 mathematical scientists visit MSRI each year, many for substantial periods. (05/21)
  12. In the Summer 2021 semester, the program offers 2 graduate courses, including MAP 5435: Advanced Mathematics for Engineers  and MAP 5336: Ordinary Differential Equations and Applications. (05/2021)
  13. The following five graduate courses: MAA 5237 Mathematical Analysis, MAP 6197:  Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning, MAP 6387 Numerical Linear Algebra, MAS 6116 Introduction to Random Matrix Theory, and MTG 6345:  Algebraic Topology have been added in the graduate course listing starting from Fall 2021 (05/2021)
  14. Congratulation to Xing Fan to be awardees of the 2021 Yvette Kanouff Industrial Mathematics Scholarship. The scholarship was generously supported by alumni Yvette Kanouff (Master 1993) for  graduate students in the department of Mathematics with an interest in working on industry problems. (04/21)
  15.  Feng Yu is supported to participate the 2021 Summer Graduate School at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), entitled Mathematics of Big Data: Sketching and (Multi-) Linear Algebra. (03/2021)
  16. 4 PhD and 2 master students joined the graduate program in Spring 2021. They received their master/bachelor degrees in mathematics or related fields from Columbia University; Duke University; Georgia Southern University;  Stevens Institute of Technology; University of Central Florida; and University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.  (01/21)
  17. In the Spring 2021 semester, the program offers 12 graduate courses, including Algebra II,  Applied Numerical Mathematics, Approximation Techniques, Asymptotic Method in Mathematical Statistics, Differential Geometry,  Differential Equations for Financial Mathematics, Financial Mathematics I, Graph Theory II, Mathematical Modeling, Measure and Probability II,   Numerical Solution of PDE, and Real Analysis. (01/2021)
  18.  Congratulation to Dr. Wei Yan to received the  2020 departmental Outstanding Dissertation Award.  The title of her dissertation is Mean Field Optimal Control and Related Problems. Dr. Wei Yan was under the supervision of Professor Jiongmin Yong, and she is currently a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics,  University of Michigan.  (01/21)