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Memorial Session for Evarist Giné at the New England Statistics Symposium

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A memorial session entitled “Probability and Related Topics — in memory of Evarist Giné” to be held during the New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) hosted by the UConn Statistics Department on Saturday, April 25, 3:30-4:45 in AUST 434.

Program:

Rick Vitale (UConn) Welcome
Dick Dudley (MIT) “Evarist as a student, teacher and friend”
Victor de la Pena (Columbia) “Dependence measures: a perspective”
Iddo Ben-Ari (UConn) “Evarist’s favorite undergraduate proof and where it got me”
Lu Lu (Colby) “On the sup-norm behavior of the Bernstein density estimator”
Molly Hahn (Tufts), and others as they would like: “Evarist: Reminiscences”

Huang receives NSF CAREER Award

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Lan-Hsuan Huang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

The CAREER Award, which provides 5 years of support, is the NSF’s most prestigious grant in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

The NSF’s citation for Prof. Huang reads: “Huang’s projects will investigate some fundamental problems in mathematical general relativity that concern the interplay between globally conserved physical quantities and the geometric structure of the universe. Based on successful modeling of astrophysical phenomena provided by the Einstein field equations, interesting and challenging problems in geometric analysis have increasingly arisen to further understand the mathematical models of the universe. Huang’s research focuses on studying the solution space of the Einstein field equations and how physical quantities, such as the total energy, linear momentum, center of mass, and angular momentum, interact with the geometry of the solutions. Her projects also include several educational activities that will train a range of students in the field of geometric analysis and related areas.”

Read more at UConn Today.

Computational Geometry Workshop at UConn

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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.

For more information, visit here.

Two PhD students win presentation awards at the 49th Actuarial Research Conference

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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”

The official announcement is available here.