The 24th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry will be held at UConn on Oct 31 – Nov 1, 2014

Following the tradition of the previous Fall Workshops on Computational Geometry, the format of the workshop will be informal, extending over 2 days, with several breaks scheduled for discussions. The workshop is open to the public, with no registration fee. There will be an Open Problem Session where participants are encouraged to pose and present research questions.

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Two UConn PhD students received honorable mentions in the graduate student presentation competition for their presentations at the 49th Actuarial Research Conference in Santa Barbara, CA.

• Wenyuan Zheng – “Portfolio Choice with life Annuities under Probability Distortion”
• Gao Niu – “Agent Based Modeling of P&C Underwriting Cycles”

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The Mathematics Department at the University of Connecticut hosts a Special Semester on Representation Theory in the Fall of 2014. Activities include:

• Distinguished lecture series by Claus Michael Ringel (Universität Bielefeld) and Bernard Leclerc (Université de Caen).
• Colloquium talks by Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon), Lutz Hille (Universität Münster), Henning Krause (Universität Bielefeld) and Idun Reiten (NTNU Trondheim).

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Prof. Fabiana Cardetti and her collaborators from the Neag School of Education are working with a large group of teachers from different school districts in Connecticut as part of the Bridging Practices Among Connecticut Mathematics Educators project, funded by a grant from the the State Department of Education. Prof. Lozano-Robledo is also involved this summer in the implementation of a summer professional development workshop.

Read more about the project, its goals, and members, on UConn Today, or in the CLAS Newsletter.

The Department is proud to welcome Matthew Badger, Guojun Gan, Zhongyang Li, and Liang Xiao, who will join our Faculty as Assistant Professors in the Fall of 2014, and Vasilis Chousionis, who will join as Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2015.

Dr. Badger comes to UConn from a Simons Instructorship at Stony Brook. He received a Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Washington, and researches geometric measure theory, analysis on rough domains, harmonic measure, modulus of curves and measures and quasiconformal mappings.

Dr. Chousionis received a Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Helsinki, and was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Finnish Academy. His research is in geometric measure theory, harmonic analysis and potential theory.

Dr. Gan received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2007 from York University. Prior to coming to UConn, he was the Director of Variable Annuity Hedging Research & Development at Manulife Financial. His research is on variable annuity valuation and hedging, open source variable annuity valuation systems, and high dimensional data and large data clustering.

Dr. Li received a Ph.D. in 2011 from Brown, and was previously a Research Fellow at Cambridge. She works on lattice models in probability and statistical mechanics, including dimer model, Ising models, percolations, self-avoiding walks, 1-2 models and general vertex models; Gaussian free fields and , conformal invariance.

Dr. Xiao holds a 2009 Ph.D. from M.I.T. He was previously an assistant professor of mathematics at UC Irvine, and before that an L. E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago. Xiao researches the geometry of Shimura varieties, $p$-adic automorphic forms, $p$-adic Hodge theory and $(\varphi,\Gamma)$-modules, Iwasawa theory for non-ordinary modular forms, slopes of Newton polygons, and the theory of nonarchimedean differential modules and its applications to ramification theory.

Profs. [dump script=”PersonLink.php?FirstName=Luke&LastName=Rogers”] and [dump script=”PersonLink.php?FirstName=Alexander&LastName=Teplyaev”] are members of the organizing committee of the 5th Cornell Conference on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals. The conference will take place in Ithaca NY, from June 11–15, 2014,
and is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Prof. [dump script=”PersonLink.php?UniqueID=1972″] is a member of the organizing committee of a satellite conference to the International Congress of Mathematicians, titled “Representation Theory and Related Topics”. The conference will take place in Daegu, South Korea, from Aug 6 to Aug 9, 2014, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Elliptic Curves @ UConn is an instructional conference on elliptic curves and (closely) related topics. The talks are aimed at graduate students in number theory, with a background in algebraic number theory, and some basic knowledge of elliptic curves, but everyone is welcome to attend. Registration for the conference is free. The conference will take place on Saturday, May 17th, at the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut.

Update: photos from the event are now available on our Facebook page.