Mathematics News Archive
A huge shout out to our new Pi Mu Epsilon inductees this year! Congratulations, Anthony Muto, Julian Myers, and Macy Skaggs! Pi Mu Epsilon is a non-secret organization whose purpose is the promotion of scholarly activity in mathematics among students in academic institutions. It aims to do this by 1) electing members on an honorary
Congratulations to Our Outstanding Students! We are thrilled to celebrate the achievements of five incredible Marshall University students who have been awarded NASA West Virginia Space Grant Undergraduate Fellowships for their research projects! Their hard work and dedication, guided by their faculty mentors, continue to push the boundaries of science and discovery. Grace Ghiz (Anthropology)
On 9 November 2024, two mathematics faculty Dr. Trung Truong and Dr. Tom Cuchta took a group of students to the 42nd Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations, held this year at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. There were five talks contributed by students and faculty from Marshall’s Department of Mathematics and Physics. One
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Stapleton for her award of The Stephen & Sue Zemba Excellence in Online Teaching Award! It is truly a recognition of her service and contributions to the online education and community.
On Saturday, November 2, Marshall students Ashley Robinett, Richard Williams, and Macy Skaggs and Marshall professor Stephen Deterding attended the Fall 2024 Ohio Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America. Ashley, Richard, and Dr. Deterding presented talks at the meeting.
No tricks, just treats! The Marshall University Astronomy Club, the Society of Physics Students, and Pi MU Epsilon hosted a night of Halloween party fun for all members and faculty from the Department of Mathematics and Physics in attendance! Activities included costume judging, contests and games, a potluck, a movie showing, and telescope use on
Congratulations to our professors who were awarded NASA Mini-Opportunity Grants! Dr Tom Cuchta “Differential Analyzer in Lexington” Dr Judy Fan “Hybrid Materials-Based Resistive Memory Diodes for Artificial Neural Networks” Dr Yongick Kim “Reconstitution of the Circadian Clock In Vitro: A Strategy to Discover the Mechanism for Circadian Clock Synchronization” Dr Aley El-Shazly “Investigation of REEY
Does mathematics scare you? Don’t be frightened! Students from Pi Mu Epsilon and the Thundering Nerds Math Club have created a math puzzle for display at the Kenova Pumpkin House. They volunteered at the Pumpkin House by carving pumpkins and assembling a puzzle as well as completing the puzzle. The puzzle will be on display
Math professor Dr. Tom Cuchta was invited to speak in a special session titled “Hypergeometric Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and Multivariable Polynomials” at the 8th Approximation Theory and Special Functions conference held in Ankara, Türkiye on 4-6 September 2024. His talk was on some recent and forthcoming research on hypergeometric functions and was titled “Discrete and
Dr. Tom Cuchta, alongside his colleagues Dr. Jaqueline Mesquita (University of Brasilia) and Dr. Sabrina Streipert (University of Pittsburgh), organized a special session at the International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications held this year in Paris, France. The session, titled “Recent advances on time scales and its relation to difference equations”, hosted 14 speakers