2018 winners of the Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund

My name is Iryna Fryz. I am from Ukraine. Still while being a student at Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky State Pedagogical University, I aspired to tie up my further activity with research work in Mathematics. In 2009, I received Master's degree in Mathematics. After my Master study, I had the chance to work with Doctor of Mathematics Fedir Sokhatsky under his supervising and I cooperate with him now. We do research in quasigroup theory and theory of n-ary operations.

Recently I have graduated from PhD course of study at Khmelnytskyi National University. The topic of my PhD thesis is “Orthogonal operations and algorithms for their construction”. Currently I am working at Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University in Vinnytsia. I combine work at PhD and Doctoral Studies Department and scientific investigation with bringing up of my young son.

My research is in the area of algebra, combinatorics, discrete mathematics and it is related with mathematical aspects of computer science. I investigate tuples of n-ary operations and hypercubes, namely, their combinatorial properties; compositions and decompositions of n-ary operations and related problems. My scientific results can be applied in coding and encryption of information, discrete geometry, experimental design etc.

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I express my gratitude to Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund for providing me with a grant for the participation in the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 (IMC 2018) which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1-9 August 2018. It is the most important international Mathematics event and a good opportunity to attend talks of researchers in related fields and lectures of invited speakers who will present the major scientific achievements in Mathematics. Since the scientific program of ICM 2018 covers wide range of fields of Mathematics, this grant will help me to present the results of my research work for broader scientific audience. Also, I am interested in getting new knowledge which is especially useful for an early-career researcher.

I believe that participating in international high-level scientific events enhances international scientific communication and this helps to receive new ideas for research and to establish networks with other mathematicians, consequently, all this creates a background to become a better researcher.

Dr. Suvra Pal is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at University of Texas Arlington in USA. Prior to joining UT Arlington, he was a Lecturer (research track) in the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University in Canada. Before joining McMaster University, he worked with Tata Consultancy Services in India as an Assistant Systems Engineer. Dr. Pal’s current research interests are in Survival Analysis, Model Discrimination, and Computational Statistics.

Project Editorial: 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Vancouver, Canada

Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is one of the world’s largest annual statistical event that attracts over 6500 participants from 52 countries. It is also the largest gathering of statisticians and data scientists in North America offering a unique opportunity for statisticians from different fields (academia, industry, and government) to gather together and explore collaborative opportunities. The Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund will enable me to attend the 2018 JSM and give a presentation based on my most recent research on cure rate models. This will be a great opportunity to disseminate the results of my research, network with experts in the field, gain insights in new research areas, and establish new collaborations.

My publications and current research interests focus on statistical inference for estimable functions and variance components, in linear mixed models with commutative orthogonal block structure (COBS). I completed my Ph.D. in 2006 at the University of Beira Interior, where I am teaching courses in basic statistics, quantitative methods, hierarchical linear models and multivariate analysis. I am a member of the working group (WG) CMStatistics (this WG focuses on all computational and methodological aspects of statistics) and member of IEOM Society. Also belong to several conference committee and serve the editorial board of several journals.

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Many benefits from conference attendance are hard to quantify, but where else can you find so many contacts facing the same problems as yours?

The conference specifically brings back to me and my university a payback for my scientific investment. In the conference there will there be training sessions in areas that will immediately benefit myself and my work group and help us overcome current or future challenges.

I will be able to take the pulse of what is happening for tools, technologies, and processes, and hear ideas we weren’t even aware of.

This will help me to discuss tools, technologies, and processes and how I can might apply them in our university to improve our knowledgements.

My name is Ana Djurdjevac and I come from Serbia where I finished my bachelor and master studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Now I am a PhD student at the Free University of Berlin, Germany and the member of the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS). I am a member of the research group Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and my PhD advisor is Prof.  Dr. Ralf Kornhuber. The topics that I am interested in are analysis and numerical analysis of PDEs with random coefficients, geometric PDEs, and stochastic PDEs (sPDEs).

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Thanks to the Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund, I will be able to attend the ICM 2018 (International Congress of Mathematics) where I have been selected to present my work in a short communication session. ICM is one of the largest and most prestigious meetings in mathematics and takes place every four years. The most distinguished prizes, such as Fields medals, are awarded during the conference. Therefore this will be a great opportunity to meet and hear some of the leading experts of many mathematical topics. The variety and the topic range is very wide, which gives a great opportunity to get an overview of current state of art of mathematics. ICM is an unique event that can for me, as a young researcher, have a big effect.

Yuan Wang received her Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1990. Since then she has been with the Department of Mathematics at Florida Atlantic University, where she is currently a Professor. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Mathematics and Its Application, University of Minnesota, in 1993; at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I, France, in 1994; at the Australian National University in 1996, and at the Academy of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for several months annually from 2000 to 2005. She received an NSF Young Investigator Award for her research in systems and control theory in 1994. She is an IEEE Fellow.

Dr. Wang's research interests are in several areas of control theory, including realization theory, stabilization and stability analysis of nonlinear systems. Her publications of research can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SdG1gusAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. She is serving or has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Conference Editorial Board, Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, European Series of Applied and Industrial Mathematics: Control, Optimization and the Calculus of Variations. She also serves as a moderator for math.OC and cs.SY for arXiv.org.

Dr. Wang is also engaging in promoting diversity of graduate students in mathematical sciences.  She is currently the faculty advisor for the Student Chapter of Association for Women in Mathematics at her university, and she became a mentor and facilitator for Math Alliance in Fall 2015.

How the funding will be of benefit to our recruitment efforts

It has been recognized at the national level in USA that there is an increasing need to increase the participation and advancement in academic careers by under-represented groups which include women and minorities. This is especially a concern for graduate programs which are at the forefront in producing the next generation of mathematicians. As the Graduate Director of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the funding will support me to recruit under-represented groups to our Master’s and PhD programs.  The grant will enhance our recruitment efforts by supporting visits of potential students from diverse backgrounds, and for us to recruit students in conferences or workshops with components of undergraduate participations.

Cesar Ceballos is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna who specializes in algebraic combinatorics and discrete geometry. He is a young Colombian mathematician who received his bachelor and master degrees in pure mathematics from Universidad del Valle and Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, respectively. He finished a Master Class programme on Aspects of Calabi-Yau Geometries at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands in 2009, and obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics under the supervision of Günter Ziegler at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany in 2012. He holds a postdoctoral position at FU Berlin (2012-2013), was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at York University in Canada (2013-2015), and a visitor member of the Fields Institute (2013-2015). He has received several distinctions, including the Government of Canada’s most prestigious award for postdoctoral researchers: a Banting Postdoctoral Award.

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The purpose of this project is to fund the participation of Latin American young researchers in the summer school ``Combinatorics meets Algebra, Geometry and Optimization - ECCO 2018”, which will take place in Barranquilla, Colombia during June 5-16, 2018. The main objective of the school is to bring young mathematicians from the region into close contact with international researchers and leading experts in various fields of combinatorics and its applications. We aim at promoting mathematical research and education among young students in a motivating environment, and to consolidate a regional research network in Combinatorics.

My name is Radouane YAFIA from Morocco. I am a full Professor at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir since December 2006. I have my PhD in Chouaib Doukkali University in my country under the supervision of the Prof. Hamad Alaoui Talibi.  As an applied mathematician, I work in a wide variety of fields. I have contributed to theoretical and applied mathematics in population dynamics and dynamical systems. My collaborators, M. A. Aziz Alaoui and Samira El yacoubi from france, A.Tridane and F. Rihan from UAE, H. Merdan From Turkey and Ali Moussaoui from Algeria.

This grant will help me to attend and present my recent work in The 5th International Conference on Complex Dynamical Systems in Life Sciences: Modeling and Analysis (5^th ICCDS’2018) 10-12 May 2018, in Aveiro, Portugal. It will be a great opportunity to meet many researchers in my field, collaborate and discuss with colleagues about the last results in complex systems. Thanks to the support from the Elsevier Mathematics Sciences Sponsorship Fund.