UH grad students train with national experts to tackle clean energy issues using partial differential equations solver PISALE, in a workshop led by Professor Monique Chyba.
Pictured: Graduate student Jack McKee presenting.
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Category Archives: Research
Distinguished Lecture Series: Benson Farb
Benson Farb (University of Chicago) will be giving a three-lecture series for us this Spring starting April 23.
Professor Farb is a leader in both the research and exposition of
mathematics: he has just won the 2024 American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for mathematical exposition.
Escape response of copepods
Chelsea Nguyen (math major and Honors student) has been pursuing undergraduate research under the guidance of Daisuke Takagi.
Last week she presented a poster at the Ocean Science Meeting, the flagship conference for ocean science that brings together a diverse group of scientists, engineers and mathematicians working on anything ocean related. Above we see her presenting the poster.
Chelsea received UROP funding for this project.
UROP is currently accepting applications for project funding; the deadline is March 3.
Read more about undergraduate research in the math department.
Challenging computability
Cooperating faculty member Dusko Pavlovic published a book in 2023 in Springer’s Theory and Applications of Computability series:
Programs as diagrams: From Categorical Computability to Computable Categories
In 2024, Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen‘s book
Automatic Complexity: A computable measure of irregularity
was published by De Gruyter.
The books challenge computability theory in different yet similar ways:
- Programs as diagrams argues that Turing machines can be replaced by category-theoretical diagrams for a more natural understanding of computability.
- Automatic complexity advocates replacing Turing machines by finite automata in the definition of Kolmogorov complexity, thus obtaining a computable notion that is “visual” in an analogous way to Pavlovic’s diagrams.