News
1) Professor Alan Tucker chosen to be the Editor of the journal Applied Mathematics Letters, starting January 1, 2012
2) Celebration of Michel Balinski’s 78 years: July 17-18
3) Professor Eugene Feinberg selected as a recipient of 2012 Charles Hirsch Award "for developing and implementing on Long Island, electric load forecasting methods and smart grid technologies".
4) Professor Eugene Feinberg is elected INFORMS Fellow, 2011
5) Professor Joseph Mitchell is selected for distinction of ACM Fellow, 20116) Professor James Glimm (PI) and team, including Professors Xiaolin Li and Xiangmin Jiao, with the assistance of graduate student, Tulin Kaman, win prestigious 2012 DOE INCITE Award
7) Professor Svetlozar Rachev and Quantitative Finance graduate students win portfolio selection competition
8) Professor Eugene Feinberg awarded the Honorary Doctor degree from the Institute for Applied System Analysis
9) Professor Alan Tucker named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
10) Stony Brook ranked in top 10 Applied Mathematics Departments by NRC study
11) Survey places Applied Mathematics among the very top of best-paid college majors
1) Applied Math Letters was created to publish short papers quickly. It was the first journal to directly typeset from authors' LaTeX files without page proofs. It now receives over 2000 submissions a year. Tucker plans to transform the journal to quickly publish research announcements of major results that have been submitted for publication in leading journals, where the papers could take 2 years to appear. The former editorial board of Applied Math Letters included 3 Applied Math faculty: James Glimm, Reginald Tewarson (emeritus), and Alan Tucker.
2) Celebration of Michel Balinski’s 78 years: July 17-18
The Departments of Economics and of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook University will jointly sponsor a one day celebration of Michel Balinski’s 78 years as part of the 23rd International Conference on Game Theory, to be held July 15-19, 2012. The celebration is scheduled between 2 pm on July 17th and 12:30 pm on July 18th, including dinner on the evening of July 17th.
Organizers:
Rida Laraki (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Operations Research and Economics) Svetlozar T. Rachev (Stony Brook University, Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Invited speakers:
Robert J. Aumann (Hebrew University and SUNY, Mathematics and Economics),
Mourad Baïou (CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal, Operations Research),
Louis J. Billera (Cornell University, Mathematics),
Roberto Cominetti (Universidad de Chile, Mathematics)
B. Curtis Eaves (Stanford University, Operations Research),
Jack Nagel (University of Pennsylvania, Political Science),
Maurice Salles (Université de Caen, Economics),
Martin Shubik (Yale University, Economics),
Sylvain Sorin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, Mathematics),
Peyton Young (Oxford University, Economics)
3) Professor Eugene Feinberg is selected as a recipient of 2012 Charles Hirsch Award "for developing and implementing on Long Island, electric load forecasting methods and smart grid technologies".
4) Professor Eugene Feinberg is elected INFORMS Fellow, 2011
"For his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of operations research in the areas of Markov decision processes and dynamic programming." http://www.informs.org/Connect-with-People/Fellows/INFORMS-Fellows-Class-of-2011
5) Professor Joseph Mitchell is selected for distinction of ACM Fellow, 2011.
"For contributions to geometric computing and approximation algorithms"
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2011/fellows-2011
6) Professor James Glimm (PI) and team including Professors Xiaolin Li and Xiangmin Jiao, with the assistance of graduate student, Tulin Kaman, win prestigious 2012 DOE INCITE Award
Professor James Glimm led a team of SBU (Profs. Xiaolin Li & Xiangmin Jiao), Stanford University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory scientists, along with assistance of SBU AMS graduate student Tulin Kaman, to win the prestigious 2012 DOE Incite award with 35,000,000 processor hours for a novel project entitled ― “Stochastic Convergence for Turbulent Combustion”. Please visit the following links for more detailed information. http://www.science.energy.gov/news/in-focus/2011/11-15-11-2/
http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2012INCITEFactSheets.pdf
http://libn.com/moversandshakers/?p=1254
7) Professor Svetlozar Rachev and Quantitative Finance graduate students win portfolio selection competition
In July, Dr. Svetlozar Zari Rachev and Quantitative Finance graduate students Tsuchida Naoshi and Xiaoping Zhou won the competition of portfolio selection held by McKinley Capital in Anchorage, Alaska. Dr. Rachev and his team adopted the method entitled "Mean-ETL Portfolio Selection under Maximum Weight and Turnover Constraints based on Fundamental Security Factors."
The competition was held by McKinley Capital with the help of John B. Guerard, Jr, Ph.D., who created a series of monthly expected returns using an academically-based database of U.S. securities for the 1980 - 2009 period. The data was based on research that he has developed and helped implement for 25 years.
Dr. Rachev, a contributor to the volume, accepted the challenge and his team beat the index by over 850 basis points annually and did very well in the research competition. The Stony Brook team was a winner in our academic competition, barely topping Georgia Institute of Technology, whose results were also excellent.
Professor Yuefan Deng has mentored another Siemens Science
Competition semifinalist Vijay Viswanathan from Upper St. Clair HS,
PA. High school students mentored by AMS
faculty members have been selected Siemens Competition semifinalist or
regional finalists in five consecutive years since 2007.
8) Eugene Feinberg was awarded the Honorary Doctor degree from the Institute for Applied System Analysis at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"; one of the largest universities in Europe.
9) Professor Alan Tucker named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Alan Tucker, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is joined by Physics Professors Philip B. Allen and Barbara V. Jacak, who also were named AAAS Fellows from Stony Brook this year.
Alan Tucker was cited for his “many years of distinguished contributions to the mathematics profession, through research, teaching, and services to the community, including the American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, Mathematical Sciences Education Board, and Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.” Tucker has written five books and over 60 published articles. Tucker, who came to Stony Brook in 1970, has many distinguished professional activities, including First Vice-President of the Mathematical Association of America and extensive service on advisory committees of the National Research Council, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation.
“Stony Brook University is very proud to have three esteemed professors named 2009 AAAS Fellows,” said Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D. “Philip Allen, Barbara Jacak and Alan Tucker are deserving recipients of this highly regarded distinction. They are outstanding researchers whose creativity and dedication to science and learning is reflected in an outstanding body of work."
10) Stony Brook ranked in top 10 Applied Mathematics Departments by NRC study
Applied Math and Statistics receives international recognition for their research doctorate program in a data based assessment of research-doctorate programs by The National Research Council. The survey includes data on over 5000 programs in 62 fields at 212 universities nationwide. Stony Brook’s AMS program scored an R-ranking which placed it in the top 10 of Applied Mathematics Departments. The assessment of U.S. doctoral programs found that in the field of Applied Mathematics, Stony Brook ranked first in the percentage of PhDs with nonacademic employment (government laboratories and industry) at 85%, reflecting the strength of applications in our research program. We were also ranked first in the number of PhDs produced annually (14), reflecting the size and breadth of our doctoral program. The Stony Brook Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics was also near the top in the percentage of faculty with grants, the percentage of female faculty, and the percentage of graduate students from underrepresented minorities. http://www.nap.edu/rdp
11) New survey places Applied Mathematics among the very top of best-paid college majors