2019 winners of the Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund

He is actively engaged in math outreach activities and has taught classes  on the mathematics of Lego and Rubik's cubes for almost a decade. His course lectures, many of his talks and research papers and expository  handouts are available online at https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/. He also maintains a math riddles page at https://mathriddles.williams.edu/.

Editorial

I live in a very rural county, where declining enrolments make school budgets a challenge. I know this first hand, as I serve on our regional school committee. I devised a formula which convinced two towns to fully regionalize and better both communities, but there are sadly many great activities that are not funded because of higher priorities, especially social issues. These funds will be used for math outreach activities concentrated on the schools in my area; however, there is an opportunity for greater impact as I do a lot of math outreach. In particular, I annually teach continuing education lectures to teachers, visit math summer camps, and write modules for high school teachers. Thus, the lessons I learn in building units in my area can be transferred to wide audiences easily.

Abraham  has very keen interest in applications of geospatial analysis, machine  learning and internet of things. A member of the International  Statistics Institute, International Biometric Society and the American  Statistical Association.

Editorial

The Elsevier Mathematical Science Sponsorship Fund will enable me to attend the 62nd World Statistics Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to learn from  the many very diverse sessions, gain insight on applications of  statistical methodologies and new technologies especially towards  achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), network with other participants and initiate collaborative and learning platforms. Besides this will be an opportunity to experience the Malays culture.

Her research interests are in the area of group analysis of differential  equation. This includes study of different kinds of symmetries of  differential equations, admissible and equivalence transformations in  classes of such equations, as well as construction of conservation laws and exact solutions for equations of mathematical physics and  mathematical biology. She is a member of American Mathematical Society  and European Women in Mathematics.

Olena Vaneeva has received a  number of national and international awards. These are, in particular, Prize of the President of Ukraine for young scientists (2010), Abel  Visiting Scholar Grant from the Niels Henrik Abel Board (2014), Prize of  the Presidium of the National Academy of Ukraine for young scientists  (2014), Award “For women in science” from L’Oreal foundation (2018). She  collaborates with researchers from Cyprus and Czechia and made 18 short  scientific visits abroad as well as gave over 30 talks at international conferences. Olena is also actively involved in popularization of mathematics, being among the organizers of many events for schoolchildren and students like PhysMathDay, Pi Day and others.

Editorial

The event “Women in mathematics: history and perspectives” will take place  on April 20, 2019, at the Institute of Mathematics of the National  Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv.

This is a one-day event  for historical and modern perspectives on the role and impact of women  in mathematics. The key speakers will be female researchers who are at  the higher level of their careers. By their personal stories these women  will encourage high school girls and students to become professional  mathematicians. The main objectives of the event are reducing gender gap  in mathematics, popularization of mathematics and giving an opportunity  for high school girls and students to establish contacts with successful female mathematicians.

There will be three parts of the  event, which symbolize past, present and future of women in mathematics.  In the first part talks on history of women in mathematics will be  given, enlightening biographies of such prominent female mathematicians  as Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Emmy  Noether and others. In the second part Ukrainian female mathematicians  who is at the higher levels of academic career will give inspirational  talkы which are based on their personal stories. In the third part we  will discuss how mathematics forms a basis for STEM, and then some talks  will be given by school girls and students who will present their  projects for popularization of mathematics.

We will use the grant  from the Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund to cover travel  expenses of participants from other Ukrainian cities. This will give  them opportunity to take part in the meeting. We believe that our event  will have great impact on future careers of young female mathematicians.

My research work focuses on solutions of Partial Differential Equations by Finite Element Methods. My research interests revolve around the notion  of accuracy and reliability of numerical approximations and are typically related to enrichment methods, model-order reduction methods,  as well as error estimation and adaptivity.

Editorial

I am deeply grateful to the Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship  for this grant that will allow me to participate in the fifteenth US  National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM). This conference  is to be held in Austin, Texas in July 2019 and is one of the major  conferences in my research area. The sponsorship will thus enable me to present my results to experts from my field. It will also allow me to attend other researchers’ presentations, which will be a great  opportunity to keep up with the most recent findings and developments in  the fields of computational mechanics and applied mathematics. I look forward to this opportunity to meet fellow researchers and potentially foster future collaborations.

Editorial

I  express my acknowledgment to Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship  Fund for providing me with a grant for the participation in the XVIII  SLALM (Latin American Symposium of Mathematical Logic), which will be  held in Concepción de Chile (Chile), 16-20 December 2019. This grant  will help me to present results of my recent research work. It is really  a great opportunity for me to hear some of the leading experts of many  mathematical topics concerning mathematical logic, in order to know  about the problems that the scientific community is working on and to  get the possibility to establish future collaborations.

A. De Cezaro research interest is included in the field of applied  mathematics with a focus on the topic of parameter identification  problems (inverse problems), usually modelled by differential equations.  Inverse problems describe the need to infer information about specific parameters through the partial knowledge (measurements) of solutions of differential equations. Such problems are characterized by their  intrinsic difficulty associated with instability (or ill-conditioning).  Furthermore, data are usually obtained by measurements and hence,  corrupted by noise, without mentioning the difficulties related to the  massive volume of observations that must be processed. Techniques for  dealing with the instability and noise in the data in order to find  satisfactory solutions to such problems are known as regularization methods. These tools involve interaction between theory (functional  analysis, optimization), scientific computing and practice (iteration  with professionals of many areas - industry and academia).

Editorial

I would like to express my gratitude to Elsevier Mathematical Sciences  Sponsorship Fund for the grant for attending and present my current  research at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference (AIP 2019) which  will be held in Grenoble, France, 08-12 July 2019 and the International  Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019) which will  be held in Valencia, Spain 15-19 July 2019. Those are the most important  conferences in Inverse Problems and Applied Mathematics, respectively.  Furthermore, given the number of researchers in topics of my interest that will attend the aforementioned conferences, this opportunity will  surely enhance collaboration projects in the field of applied  mathematics.

An  advocate for students and young faculty, she is a member of the  National and Gulf States Math Alliance whose mission is to increase  participation of minority populations in math graduate programs, and a  co-organizer of the Women in Commutative Algebra Research Network and a  Banff Workshop 2019.

Editorial

The Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund will be used to recruit and  support a minority graduate student in Mathematics at the University of  Mississippi. In particular, the student may use the funds as a summer  stipend to continue the uninterrupted study of mathematics, or apply the  funds to purchase supplementary supplies like textbooks or other material, and conference travel. Moreover, the University of Mississippi, through the office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Community and Community Engagement, will provide additional support to  this program to maximize the impact of the Elsevier award.