Math and Statistics News

The conference will consist of two one-hour lectures by Sijue Wu. The first lecture will be of an expository nature. Other participants are also invited to give shorter talks. The conference will start at 9:30AM on Friday and will end no later than 4PM on Saturday. Further, there will be an outreach workshop held during the lunchtime of September 17 on the topic of tips and strategies for successful mathematics grant writing. There will also be a conference dinner held on the evening of September 16. Please visit the conference website for registration information, a participant list, and, in the near future, a detailed schedule.

A nationally recognized endeavor by Girls Inc. that provides hands-on opportunities in STEM, the Capital Region Girls Inc. Eureka! program has 57 girls from a number of different schools attending UAlbany this summer to learn about atmospheric and environmental sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, women’s studies, geography, planning, and sustainability, chemistry, ChoreoPhysics and biology.

Professor Penghang Yin won a three-year NSF grant for his project “Algorithms and Theory for Compressing Deep Neural Networks.” Congrats to Professor Yin!

Three Mathematics & Statistics professors have been awarded President's Awards for Excellence for 2022. Professor Karin Reinhold received the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Service, and Professors Antun Milas and Yiming Ying received the President's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities. Congrats to Professors Milas, Reinhold, and Ying! (Pictured left to right: Antun Milas, Karin Reinhold and Yiming Ying)

UAlbany Professors Seth Chaiken, Cristian Lenart, Antun Milas, Karin Reinhold, and Changlong Zhong are co-organizing the Northeast Women in Algebra and Combinatorics 50th Anniversary Conference for the Association for Women in Mathematics (NEWAC50AWM). There will be a virtual component from November 20-21, 2021 and an in-person component from April 29th to May 1, 2022. 

Math and Statistics Professor Yiming Ying along with two other machine learning Math faculty, Yunlong Feng and Penghang Yin, have been named PI and co-PIs on a recent grant from the SUNY-IBM AI Research Alliance to develop "FRAPP: Fair, Robust, And Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Algorithms." Congrats to Professors Feng, Yin and Ying!

In 2021 alone, Math and Statistics Professor Yiming Ying has been awarded two grants from the NSF: One from the NSF's program on computational mathematics for "New Studies of Learning with Stochastic Convex Optimization" (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110836) and the second grant is through the NSF's program on robust intelligence for "Robust Deep Learning with Big Imbalanced Data" (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110546). Congrats to Professor Ying!

For the fourth straight summer, the College of Arts & Sciences hosts Girls Inc. Eureka! program, with faculty from seven UAlbany departments imparting a love of STEM subjects to girls from the Capital Region.