CIMS hosts a Panel on Academic Careers in Mathematics

CIMS hosted a panel on Academic Careers in Mathematics on June 4, 2019.  This panel focused on the transition from undergraduate through graduate school and beyond.  Topics included how to choose a graduate program, life in graduate school, postdoctoral positions and the rewards/demands of a faculty position.  The panel consisted of Prof. Andrea Arnold, Assistant […]

REU 2019 Begins

On May 20, 2019 students from around the US began their 9-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics, supported by the National Science Foundation.  Students work with faculty on real-world projects provided by business, industry or government.   Projects this year are provided by the Pfizer and GE Aviation, US.

WPI Statistics Alumni Meeting 2019

The 2019 WPI Statistics Alumni Meeting this year was held on Saturday April 17, 2018 on campus.   Current students got insight about a range of issues on industrial careers from presentations by alumni Kaitlyn Brady, Xueer Jing, Jie Bao, Chi Zhang, Jie Bao and Kristen Kehrer.  If you are interested in future meetings, please contact […]

Registration for the 35th Annual Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop is now open

Registration is now open for the 35th Annual Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop, to be held June 17-21, 2019 at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark,NJ.   Funding is provided by our industrial participants and the National Science Foundation.  CIMS members Prof. Burt Tilley and Prof. Suzanne Weekes are on the MPI Organizing Committee.  […]

Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp, University of Delaware, June 12-19, 2019

The IMA-supported Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp, GSMMC 19.  The camp will take place at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE from June 12-15, 2019.  CIMS has been actively involved in this camp along with the Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop the following week. Description The GSMM Camp is a workshop designed to teach graduate […]

AWM/SIAM Speaker: Clara Vu (VEO Robotics), February 20, 2019 12:00pm in SL 105

VEO Robotics Co-Founder and VP of Engineering will give a talk on “An Accidental Career in Robotics” on February 20, 2019 in SL 105 from 12:00-1:00pm.  This talk is hosted by the AWM and SIAM chapters at WPI.

CIMS-AFOSR-AFRL Seminar: February 6, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm, SH308

CIMS is hosting a seminar of three graduate students who are funded through programs from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on February 6, 2019 from 2:00pm-4:00pm in SH 308.  The speakers are: Matthew Porter, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK […]

SIAM Speaker Series Presents: Cleve Moler

The WPI SIAM Chapter will be hosting a visit by Dr. Cleve Moler on January 29, 2019 at 4pm in Salisbury Labs 115.  Dr. Moler is the co-creator of Matlab and the co-founder of MathWorks.  He has received many prestigious awards, including the 2014 IEEE John von Neumann medal.

REU 2018 Students Present at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD

  Students from the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics recently attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Baltimore, MD, to present their work from the summer.  Sara Amato (Assumption College), Lauren Moore (University of Kentucky), and Kaitlin Ragosta (Boston University) presented both a poster and contributed talk on their project, […]

Applications for the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics is now open

The CIMS Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics is now accepting applications for Summer 2019.  Please go to the REU website http://www.wpi.edu/+CIMSREU for more information.