- December 6, 2011 Dr. Michael Neumann has been named the College of Arts & Sciences Researcher of the Month for December 2011/January 2012 (http://www.cas.msstate.edu/research/). Congratulations!
- December 2, 2011 Dr. Ted Dobson was awarded the 2011 College of Arts & Sciences Research in the Natural & Physical Sciences and Mathematics & Statistics Award.
- December 2, 2011 Dr. Bruce Ebanks was invited to join Phi Beta Kappa as an alumnus member of the chapter at Austin College. He is now an official member.
- December 2, 2011 Jerome Goddard was awarded by the Office of Research & Economic Development 2011 Graduate Student Research Award.
- November 5, 2011
Our 2011 REU students won the undergraduate presentation competition at the 7th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference: Nils Nelson from Utah State University, who was a REU student of Dr. Haimeng Zhang, got the 1st prize among 35+ presentations. Olga Stulov from SUNY, New Paltz, whose REU mentor was Dr. Xingzhou Yang, took the 2nd prize award. Dr. R. Shivaji's two REU students Kathryn Ashley and Victoria Sincavage from Clemson University won the 3rd prize award. There were only 3 undergraduate student awards and they were all taken by our REU students!
- Aug 2011
Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi, Head of the department of mathematics and statistics , has been awarded for a Fulbright grant in Romania for the 2011-2012 academic year. Undergraduates involved in research projects in Mathematics or Statistics can now apply for a stipend of up to $250 (possibly renewable for one semester).
The center for Statistical Consulting Services will be open in Allen Hall Room 409 as both a training facility for graduate students in Statistics and as a service to the University.
The department website with new design will be coming soon
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August 16, 2001 Dr. Justin Shows is a co-PI on the grant Quantification and Visualization of Ensemble Uncertainty funded by the National Science Foundation. The grant was funded for $475,174 and runs through August 16, 2014.
- July 28, 2011 One of the NSF REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) students, Ethan Lockhart from North Carolina State University, won the FIRST prize award at MSU's 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium which was held on July 28 for his research poster titled: Modified Chambolle Method for Speckle Image Denoising. Ethan's research was chosen from over 50 posters presented at the Symposium. He is one of the five participants in the NSF REU Program in Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics, currently being hosted by the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) and the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. The PI of this NSF grant awarded to CCS is Dr. Hyeona Lim, Ethan's research mentor.
- July 2011 The NSF sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics, a 10-week program, is being held until August 6,2011. This REU program involves 5 participating students from different universities in USA in meaningful research under the supervision of 4 active researchers (Drs. Hyeona Lim, Ratnasingham Shivaji, Xingzhou Yang, Haimeng Zhang) in the Center for Computational Sciences and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. For more information, check out the REU website and the MSU News Release.
- July 2011 Ratnasingham Shivaji, a William L. Giles Professor, will retire from his position at Mississippi State University after 26 years of service. He will join the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Head of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics starting from August 1, 2011. Mississippi State University has granted him the prestigious status of William L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.
- July 2010 The NSF sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics, a 10-week program, is being held until August 7, 2010. This REU program involves 7 participating students from different universities in USA in meaningful research activities through close interaction with a group of four active researchers (Drs. Hyeona Lim, Ratnasingham Shivaji, Xingzhou Yang, Haimeng Zhang) in the Center for Computational Sciences and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. For more information, check out the REU website and the MSU News Release.
- September 2009 Center for Computational Sciences(CCS) mathematicians Drs. Hyeona Lim (PI), Ratnasingham Shivaji, Xingzhou Yang and Haimeng Zhang have been awarded an National Science Fundation (NSF) grant REU Site Project: REU in Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics. The NSF award amount is $200,000 for two years (September 15, 2009 -September 14, 2011). In addition, this project will also receive $54,646 of matching funds by the Office of Research and Economic Development(ORED) at MSU.
- September 1, 2009 Dr. Bruce Ebanks and Ms. Lorraine Hughes are co-PI's on the grant Noyce STEM Teacher Scholars’ funded by the National Science Foundation. The grant was funded for $887,737 and runs through August 31, 2014.
- March 28, 2009 Dr. Bruce Ebanks was recognized by the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University as the Outstanding Honors Faculty Member.
- May 7, 2009 Joe Thompson, an MSU Giles Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, was honored by Bharat Soni, one of the main organizers, and Hyeona Lim, the program co-chair for his outstanding and continuing constributions to MSU at the 8th Mississippi State - UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations.Click here for more information.
- May 2009 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at Mississippi State University (MSU), and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host Eighth Mississippi State - UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations.Click here for more information.
- April 2008 Mr Jinglong Ye received the 2008 College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Award for his Ph.D. thesis research work. (Thesis advisor: Dr. R. Shivaji).
- March 2008 MSU math team again comes through when it counts. For the second consecutive year, a Mississippi State student team is the winner of a regional
mathematics competition. The four-person group of university upperclassmen took first-place honors in a student challenge that was part of the Mathematical
Association of America, Louisiana/Mississippi Section's 2008 meeting in Lake Charles, La. All mathematics majors, the winning MSU team included seniors
Kenneth H. "Kenny" Brown of Saltillo, Brian L. Schilling of River Ridge, La., and Adam C. Wilkerson of Tupelo, along with junior Ryan M. Causey of Wesson.
Schilling also is double-major in aerospace engineering. They scored 133 out of 150 possible points against some 35 teams from the two-state region. A second
MSU team finished 10th in the annual challenge. That group included seniors Zachary H. "Zach" Bugg of Horn Lake, Wing-Sum "Sam" Au of Starkville and Edward
H. "Jed" Leggett of Purvis, as well as sophomore Noura L. Howell of Cary, N.C. Au and Howell are mathematics majors, while Bugg is double majoring in civil
engineering. Leggett is a physics and philosophy double-major.
- November 2007 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at Mississippi State University (MSU), and the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hosted Seventh Mississippi State - UAB Conference on Differential
Equations and Computational Simulations. The conference was attended by over 130 researchers and had 95 contributed presentations. The 12 principal speakers
at this conference were:
Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology
Chris Cosner, University of Miami
Jeff Crandall, University of Virginia
Norman Dancer, University of Sydney, Australia
Joshua Epstein, The Brookings Institution
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
Jean Mawhin, University of Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Charles Nietubicz, Army research Laboratory
Jaime Peraire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Rice, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Peter Takac, University of Rostock, Germany
- October 2007 Dr. Ratnasingham Shivaji received the 2007 Oldham Outstanding
Faculty Mentor Award. Via this award the College of Arts & Sciences recognizes a faculty member who has made a special effort to impact the lives and careers
of their students.
- October 2007 Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi was named a Dean's Eminent Scholar of
Mathematics by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- July 1, 2007 Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi was appointed as the new Department Head for
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- April 2007 Mr Jaffar Ali received the 2007 College of Arts & Sciences Graduate
Student Research Award for his Ph.D. thesis research work. (Thesis
advisor: Dr. R. Shivaji).
- January 1, 2007 Dr. Corlis Johnson's proposal Scholarships to Attract and Retain Tomorrow's
Scientists, Mathematicians, and Engineers was funded by the National Science
Foundation. The grant was funded for $500,000 and runs through
December 31, 2010.
- October 17, 2006 Dr. Michael
Neumann was named a Dean's Eminent Scholar of Mathematics by the
College of Arts
and Sciences.
- October 16, 2006 Dr. Jane
L. Harvill was elected a member of the International Statistical
Institute.
- July 1, 2006. Dr. Mohsen Razzaghi is appointed as the new Interim
Department Head for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He
replaces Dr. Michael
Neumann, who has served the department with distinction as the
interim head since July, 2003.
- May 16, 2006. Dr. Ratnashingham Shivaji is appointed as the new
Director of the Center for Computational Sciences with the College of Arts
and Sciences.
- April, 2006. Amber Russell, a graduating senior, was
recognized with the 2006 College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Student
Award.
- April, 2006. Mrs. Diane Daniels received the National Academic
Advising Association's 2006 Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit.
- April, 2006. Drs. Grace and Dean Boswell have established
the Spencer B. Murray and Arthur Ollivier Endowment Fund at Mississippi
State University. The fund is established in memory of the two MSU
faculty members (Murray and Ollivier) in the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics. The gift will be used to establish one endowed fund in
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics to bring scholars to campus
to lecture on a branch of mathematics or statistics. In recognition of
the generosity of the Drs. Boswell, the department will call these
lectures "The Murray/Ollivier Annual Lecture."
- April 21, 2006. Ratnashingham Shivaji was recognized by the Shackouls Honors
College at Mississippi State University as the Outstanding Honors
Faculty member. The Honors College also recognized Douglass O. Lamm,
son of Kathyrn Lamm and David Lamm, as the Outstanding Honors
Freshman. Doug is an MSU President's List Scholar, seeking a
double-major in mathematics and insurance, risk management and
financial planning. Brian L. Schilling was one of two selected for
the Outstanding Honors Junior. Brian is an MSU President's List
Scholar and is seeking a double major in aerospace engineering and
mathematics. He is the son of Emile and Patricia Schilling. (See related article.)
- April 12, 2006. Several faculty and one graduate student
were presented a Teacher Recognition Award at the Faculty & Staff
Appreciation Banquet by the National Society of Black Engineers and the IMAGE
program at Mississippi State University. Those receiving the awards
were Ted
Dobson, Hyeona
Lim, Len
Miller, Lorraine Hughes, and Ph.D. graduate student Hathaikarn
Wattanataweekul.
- February 22, 2006. Diane Daniels
was awarded MSU's 2006 Irvin Atly Jefcoat Excellence in Advising
Award. The award includes a $5,000 stipend made possible by alumnus
Henry Hunter. The award annually recognizes faculty and staff members
with a demonstrated commitment to the academic counseling of students.
(See related article.)
- February 16-18, 2006. A team of four undergraduate
mathematics majors - Andy Eadon (Senior), Doug Lamm (freshman),
William Cleveland (Sophomore), and Brian Schilling (Junior) - won
third place in the student competition at the Annual
Spring Meeting of the Louisiana-Mississippi Section of the Mathematical Association of
America.
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