Student Clubs and Organizations
Student Chapter of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Dr. Liu's seminar
If you have a strong interest in mathematics and would like to equip yourself with an impressive arsenal of mathematics weapons to conquer challenging engineering problems in the future, the MAA/SIAM student chapter reserves a place for you! Student chapter members receive many valuable benefits:
- Career information
- Help with job placement or graduate application
- Contact with the mathematics community
- Lectures, films, discussions of mathematical principles at work in the world
- opportunities to meet students with similar interests in other colleges
- Broader perspective in mathematics
Meetings
Every Thursday between 4:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. in Lehman 126B
MAA-SIAM Activities 2008-2009
Putnam Mathematical Competition, Advisor: Dr. G. Spradlin
Activity Presentation
Preparation to the annual Putnam mathematical competition. The advisor will introduce students to areas of mathematics beyond what they encounter in their classes.
Mathematical Modeling, Advisor: Dr. H. Liu
Activity Presentation
Introduction of a basic modeling process to divide large problems into small problems and discussion of applications of differential equations.
The Advisor will manifest to students how mathematics rigor can join force with visual intuitiveness of computational tools to conquer the complexity of engineering problems.
Students will learn how to model fairly complicated engineering applications into mathematic equation systems and how to solve the problem in controlled accuracy with proper tool support, Stella by High Performance System, Inc.
During Spring 2009, Dr. Liu will invite and mentor several students to work on a mathematical modeling project.
Tensor Analysis, Advisor: Dr. S. Mancas
Activity Presentation
Continuation of the talks on tensor analysis that first started during the Spring 2008 semester. The purpose of this seminar is to convey to students manipulative skills and ability to apply these acquired skills to model our physical world.
Signal Separation Via Statistical Properties, Advisor: Dr. T. Yang
Activity Presentation
Presentation of research topics on signal separation via statistical properties, and efficient optimization techniques using Taylor-series expansion.
Example applications in wireless communications, biomedicine, finance, and eigendecomposition-based automatic target recognition will be introduced.
As the co-advisor of ERAUs SIAM student chapter, Dr. Yang is also available to supervise research projects for students interested in the applications of mathematics and statistics in engineering.
External Links
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
The Mathematics Association of America
