"Drawing from data: a mathematical approach to community representation"
In a new study, Stern and colleagues have developed a data-driven method for measuring how well communities are represented by district maps.
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Wick appointed Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation
As the Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation, Brett Wick, who is also a professor of mathematics and statistics, is focused on helping to build the structural foundations that will support cutting-edge research in data science and digital innovation in Arts & Sciences.
Tang elected American Mathematical Society fellow
Xiang Tang, professor of mathematics and statistics, has been elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Are bots winning the war to control social media?
Soumendra Lahiri, the Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Mathematics and Statistics, and Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, a doctoral student working with Lahiri: There are a lot more bots on Twitter than you might think.
Ari Stern awarded National Science Foundation grant for his research in "Structure-Preserving Hybrid Finite Element Methods"
Likai Chen has been awarded a National Science Foundation award as Co-PI with the McKelvey School of Engineering
The Prime Number Theorem
A short film about the Prime Number Theorem mathematical proof!
Escobar wins CAREER grant for interdisciplinary combinatorics
Laura Escobar Vega, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, won a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation for her project “Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry: Flag Varieties, Toric Geometry, and Applications.”