Mathematical Sciences

Department News

Job Opportunities: Postdoc position available.

Interested applicants or nominations should provide a letter of interest, vita, graduate transcript (unofficial OK), and 3 letters of recommendation to:

Postdoc Hiring Committee, Mathematical Sciences Dept., UTEP, El Paso, TX 79968-0514,
or by email to: postdoc@math.utep.edu.

Please check the job advertisement at http://utdirect.utexas.edu/pnjobs/pnjobsvw.WBX?job_nbr=09-10-14-01-0509

Everybody is invited to a workshop on:

Supplementary Matrix and Linear Algebra Materials by Piotr Wojciechowski.

The second of the three workshop series will introduce a group of modules (supported by Geometer's Sketchpad) and sample investigations that can be used to supplement lectures in matrix and linear algebra courses.

Materials are developed by a group of faculty members in the Mathematical Sciences Department at UTEP with the support of an NSF grant (CCLI #0737485).

Materials can be found at http://www.math.utep.edu:8080/jsp/

Date: Thursday (this week), October 15, 2009.

Place: Computer Lab. Mathematical Sciences Department (BH).

Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm.

Contacts: Piotr Wojciechowski at piotrw@utep.edu and Hamide Dogan-Dunlap at hdogan@utep.edu

Alumni, faculty, students and friends are invited to the College of Science Homecoming Brunch on Saturday, October 3, 2009, from 9:30am to 11:30am in the third floor Reading Room of the Geological Sciences building (corner of Wiggins & University).
For more information, contact COS' Roxanne Giron: 915-747-5042 or roxcan@utep.edu

The department welcomes new Chair and Professor, Dr. Maria Christina Mariani.

Dr. Mariani comes to UTEP from New Mexico State University. Her areas of research are Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Finance, Mathematical Physics.

Welcome!!

We welcome new faculty this semester:

Dr. Son-Young Yi, Assistant Professor in the Computational Science program.
Nada Al-Hanna, Lecturer.
Grace Babarinsa, Lecturer.
Walter Bales, Lecturer.
Pia Beccar-Varela, Lecturer.
Fan Chen, Lecturer.
Willie Heredia, Lecturer.
Snehanashu Saha, Lecturer.
Lawrence Swienciki, Lecturer.
Sandra Villa, Lecturer.

Dr. Art Duval receives one of the Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards. Read more

Mathematics graduate student Jennifer Hamlyn (BS Math, '09) and Statistics graduate student Angel Davalos (BS Math, '08) were selected to receive substantial "Bridge to the Doctorate" scholarships from the National Science Foundation, as part of a grant awarded to Dr. Helmut Knaust and Dr. Benjamin Flores (Electrical Engineering).

For more information on "Bridge to the Doctorate" scholarships, visit the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) website.

Job Opportunities: Lecturer positions are available. Please check the job advertisement at UTEP's Human Resources faculty positions online posts.

Bioinformatics Computing Laboratory (BCL), a new Core Facility of BBRC, was awarded funding from BBRC's NIH Grant #2G12RR008124 to establish bioinformatics research support services in the border region. Dr. Ming-Ying Leung is the BCL Core Director.

The Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) of UTEP obtained a new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to 2014 in the amount of 12.3 million. The Statistical Consulting Laboratory (SCL) is a Core Unit of BBRC and was awarded $720,000 of support for the next five years. Dr. Moschopoulos, SCL director, is the PI in the BBRC/SCL project.

The Statistical Consulting Laboratory (SCL) was awarded a renewal of a yearly contract with The William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC) of the US Army. The amount of the award is $76,000. Dr. Moschopoulos, SCL director is the PI in the SCL project, Dr. Julia Bader is the consultant.