Grad News – 2022

April 28, 2022

2022

  1. Wisdom Ogala  was supposed by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) Program and had a summer internship at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.  He use machine learning  technique to improve the predictive capability of the energy industry when it came to power outages.  His success story is highlighted on the  ORISE website .  (11/22)
  2. Math Alliance’s goal is  to be sure that every underrepresented or underserved American student with the talent and the ambition has the opportunity to earn a doctoral degree in a mathematical or statistical science. As a silver member of Math Alliance, the program coordinator and PhD student Panpan Chen attend the 2022 Field of Dream conference,  Minneapolis, MN, November 4-6, 2022.  (11/22)
  3. In the fall 2022 semester, the program offers 14 graduate courses, including  Advanced Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory, Advanced Topics in PDE,  Asymptotic Method in Mathematical Statistics, Complex Analysis, Differential Equation for Financial Mathematics, Differential Geometry,  Financial Mathematics I,  Graph Theory I,  Mathematical Analysis, Mathematical Foundation for Massive Data,  Numerical Linear Algebra,  Scientific Computing, Seminar in Financial Mathematics, and Topics in Advanced Calculus (08/2022)
  4. The program has 46 active PhD students and 12 active master students. 15 PhD students are taking dissertation hours. The program currently  offers  41 graduate teaching assistantship and 2 graduate research assistantship for students in the PhD program and 3 graduate teaching assistantship for students in the master program. The program has four students conferred with a PhD in the spring and summer 2022 and they have employment at Citi Group (Tampa), Citi Group (Dalla), Floriday Poly-technic University and Rollin’s College after graduation. (08/22)
  5. 9 PhD students and 5 Master students joined the graduate program in Fall.  All PhD students and 2 Master students are offered with graduate teaching assistantship, tuition waiver and health insurance coverage, and two students are awarded with UCF Graduate Dean’s fellowship. They received their master/bachelor degrees from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (India), Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (Brazil), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russian), National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (India), Nova Southern University, Stetson University, Tribhuvan University (Nepal), University of Central Florida, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), University of North Florida, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez,  and University of South Florida. (08/22)
  6. Congratulation to Ranses Alfonse Rodriguez to pass the dissertation defense. His dissertation is “Extensions of the General Solution to the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations, and Variational, Perturbative and Reversible Systems Approaches to Regular and Embedded Solitary Waves”. The committee is ” Sudipto R. Choudhury (chair), Constance Schober, Zhisheng Shuai and Demetrios Christodoulides.  He accepted an Assistant Professor position at Florida Polytechnic University. (08/22)
  7. Congratulation to Ryan Roopnarain to pass the dissertation defense. His dissertation is “Various dynamical regimes, and transitions from homogeneous to inhomogeneous steady states in nonlinear systems with delays and diverse couplings”. The committee is ” Sudipto R. Choudhury (chair), Constance Schober, Zhisheng Shuai and Demetrios Christodoulides. He accepted a visiting professor position at Rollins College. (08/22)
  8. Congratulation to Yuchen Cao to pass the dissertation defense. His dissertation is “Optimal impulse controls with changing running cost and applications in mortage refinance”. The committee members are Jiongmin Yong (Chair), Jason Swanson, Christian Keller and Liqiang Li. He accepted a position at Citi group at Dallas after graduation (08/22)
  9. Congratulation to Chang Li to pass the dissertation defense. Her dissertation is “Optimal stochastic Impluse Control with Decision Lag”. The committee members are Professors Jiongmin Yong (Chair),  Jason Swanson, Christian Keller and Liqiang Ni. She accepted a position at Citi Group at Tampa after graduation. (04/22)
  10. Student Research Week has been a long-standing tradition at UCF. Several students in the program presented their work the university’s annual Student Scholar Symposium, the cornerstone of Student Research Week. The project presented by Huntir Bass “Save Endangered Giraffes from Extinction with the Power of Math” is on the UCF Today, Student Life Section.

    Seoyun Choe’s project “The Impact of the Travel Restriction on the Infectious Disease Dynamics in Multi-Patch Models” is awarded  as the 2022 Student Scholar Symposium Winners. Choe is also invited to represent UCF at the 2022 Florida Statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium (04/2022)

  11. The math graduate program is rank No. 110  in  U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools of 2022. The best graduate program ranking in mathematics is the best graduate-level math programs. Each school’s score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions. (03/2022)
  12. The program admitted two new PhD students and one master students in the spring 2022 semester. They received their master/bachelor degrees in mathematics or related fields from Cuny York College,  Qassin University and University of Central Florida. (01/2022)
  13. Two students  are offered external Internships at Citi Group and Lockheed Martin Cooperation in the spring semester. (01/2022)
  14. In the Spring 2022 semester, the program offers 12 graduate courses, including Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Bayesian Analysis and Approximation Theory, Computational Method for Financial Mathematics II, Complex Variables, Introduction to Random Matrix Theory, Introduction to Differential Geometry,  Measure and Probability I,  Partial Differential Equations, Proseminar on Financial Mathematics,  Real Analysis, Risk Management for Financial Mathematics, and Topology. (01/2022)