The Cal Poly Mathematics Department has remained extremely active over the past year with the coordination of the summer Math Academy, welcoming more than 35 high school students served by the local Migrant Education Program to campus last year. 

Other highlights included the completion of several scholarly publications and faculty presentations given at conferences across the world.

See below to learn more about this outstanding news.

Math Academy

Amelie Schinck-Mikel and Elsa Medina directed the twelfth annual Cal Poly Math Academy in the summer 2023, welcoming a little over 35 high school students served by the local Migrant Education Program to campus. The academy is a one-week mathematics enrichment program in which students have fun with hands-on mathematical activities and puzzle-like problems. During the week, academy participants also do interesting activities across campus to expose them to various STEM majors and university life. After much demand, the Cal Poly Math Academy will be expanded to two weeks in the summer 2024: The first week will welcome high school students and the second week, middle school student.

Publications

*denotes a Cal Poly Student

Chance, B., Medina, E., Silverbush, J. (2023). If you only have one hour…Teaching statistical inference to youth. Statistics Teacher, March 23, 2023.

Charalampidis, E.G., Parker, R., Kevrekidis, P.G., Lafortune, S. (2023). The stability of the $b$-family of peakon equations. Nonlinearity, 36, 1192.

Cooper, F., Khare, A., Dawson, J., Charalampidis, E.G., Saxena, A. (2023). Uniform-density Bose-Einstein condensates of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation found by solving the inverse problem for the confining potential.
Phys. Rev. E, 107, 064202

Dimitrova, E.S., Fredrickson, C.H.*, Rondoni, N.A.*, Stigler, B., Veliz-Cuba, A. (2024). Algebraic experimental design: theory and computation. SIAM J Applied Algebra and Geometry. 8:2, 1-25.

Dimitrova, E.S., Knapp, A.C., Stigler, B., Stillman, M.E. (2023). Cyclone: open-source package for simulation and analysis of finite dynamical systems, Bioinformatics, 39:11, btad634.

Lee, M., Charalampidis, E.G., Xing, S., Chong, C., Kevrekidis, P.G. (2023). Breathers in lattices with alternating strain-hardening and strain-softening interactions. Phys. Rev. E, 107, 054208.

Liou, C., Mendes, A. (2023). Matrix represenations from labeled trees. Journal of Integer Sequences. 26.

Orson, P., Powell, M. (2024). Simple spines of homotopy 2‐spheres are unique. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 128. 10.1112/plms.12583.

Saqlain, S., Zhu, W., Charalampidis, E.G., Kevrekidis, P.G. (2023). Discovering governing equations in discrete systems using PINNs. Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simulat, 126, 107498

Schinck-Mikel, A., Paulding, K., & Medina, E. (2023). Capturing unique teaching experiences of first-year secondary mathematics teachers transitioning from virtual to in-person instruction. Conference proceedings of the Education and New Developments Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. 96-100.

Veliz-Cuba, A., Newsome-Slade, V.*, Dimitrova, E.S. (2024). A unified approach to reverse engineering and data selection for unique network identification. SIAM J Applied Dynamical Systems, 23:1, 592-615.

 

Conferences

Stathis Charalampidis gave talks at:

• Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, February 7, 2023. “Rogue Waves in Continuous and Discrete Models”
• SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Portland, OR, May 14 - 18, 2023. “Self-similar collapse to the NLS: A bifurcation analysis approach”
• The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, University of North Carolina Wilmington, May 31 - June 4 2023. “Extreme nonlinear excitations in lattice and continuum models”
• Department of Mathematics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, June 9, 2023. “The computation of matter waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Existence, stability, and bifurcations”
• “Bridging Classical and Quantum Turbulence”, Institut d’´Etudes Scientifiques, Cargese, Corsica, France, July 4 - July 14, 2023. “The Computation of Vortical Patterns in Bose-Einstein Condensates with Deflation: Existence, stability, and dynamics.
• Department of Mathematics, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, October 13, 2023. “Recent advances in atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates: From Theory to Computation”

Elena Dimitrova gave talks at:

• Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), An Algebraic Approach to Reverse Engineering and Data Selection for Network Identification, January 2024.
• Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) Annual Meeting, A Unified Approach to Reverse Engineering and Data Selection for Unique Network Identification, The Ohio State University, July 2023.
• American Mathematical Society (AMS) Spring Western Sectional Meeting, Algebraic Design of Experiments for Regulatory Network Identification, Fresno State University, May 2023.
• Association of Women in Mathematics Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, Unique Reduced Gröbner Bases of Ideals of Points, March 2023.

Sean Gasiorek co-organized a JMM Special Session on Navigating the Early Years of the Faculty Experience (MAA Project NeXT Special Sessions), Boston, MA (January 2023)

Sean Gasiorek gave talks at:

• The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, “Dynamics and Periodicity Conditions for the Integrable Boltzmann System” (October 2023)
• 11^th Workshop on Integrable Systems, “Dynamics and Periodicity Conditions for the Integrable Boltzmann System”, held at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia (November/December 2023)
• 67^th Annual Conference of the Australian Mathematical Society, “Dynamics and Periodicity Conditions for the Integrable Boltzmann System”, held at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia (December 2023)

Todd Grundmeier and Danielle Champney

• gave a talk at the SIGMAA IBL Spring 2024 Speaker Series on "Leveraging existing tasks into low-floor high-ceiling experiences.” Dec 2023.
• ran an MAA Learning Community in Fall 2023 titled "Rich Mathematical Tasks for Mathematics for Future Elementary Teacher Courses."

Joyce Lin organized a Special Session on Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Processes in Biomedical Problems at American Mathematical Society Western Sectional meeting, Fresno, CA, May 2023.

Joyce Lin gave talks at:

• The Society of Mathematical Biology, Columbus, OH, Jul. 2023
• Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2023

Elsa Medina gave talks at:

• The International Conference on Education and New Developments, Lisbon, Portugal. “Capturing unique teaching experiences of first-year secondary mathematics teachers transitioning from virtual to in-person instruction,” (2023).

• Promoviendo el Pensamiento Estadístico: Implicaciones y desafíos para la enseñanza. Santiago, Chile. (2023)

Patrick Orson gave talks at:

• Algebraic methods in manifold topology, University of Glasgow, UK, June 2023.
• Topology Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, August 2023.
• Topology Seminar, Boston College, October 2023.