Polymath 2016

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Mathematics Gets Out and About

Faculty and students engaged the world in mathematics during the last year. From mentoring high school students building robots to speaking at national conferences, Cal Poly mathematicians made a difference.

Alumna Appointed Princeton Post-Doctoral Fellow

Alumna Kasey Kelleher (B.S., M.S., ’12) has been chosen for the prestigious postdoctoral fellow program at Princeton University, and it all started right here at Cal Poly.

$People working at the IBL Workshop$

How is Cal Poly Helping to Close the Math Gender Gap?

Find out how $3 million from the National Science Foundation will be used to reduce math anxiety and close the gender achievement gap. Hint: there's some Learn by Doing involved.

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Letter from the Chair

$Dr. Borzellino$

New facilities, new faculty, a successful program review process — it's been a busy year in the Mathematics Department. Read Joe Borzellino's take on all the news, including 1,800 square feet of math collaboration space in a planned new student-faculty research building.

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New Faculty and Staff

Kara Eversman

Kara Eversman was born and raised in Los Osos, Calif. After graduating from Cal Poly with a degree in animal science, she moved to Irvine, Calif., where she worked at a fertility clinic. After almost two years in Orange County, Eversman moved to the Bay Area and worked at another fertility clinic and a hospital. Three years later, she returned to the Central Coast and started working with the Cal Poly Mathematics Department in August 2014. Over the past year, she has enjoyed getting to know everyone in the department and helping students.

Tony Samuel

$Tony Samuel$ Tony Samuel joined the mathematics faculty in fall 2015. He earned a B.Sc. from the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. in June 2005. After spending a year at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics of the University of Cambridge in the U.K., he returned to the University of St. Andrews and studied with Kenneth Falconer and Bernd Stratmann. In June 2011 he earned his doctorate in pure mathematics for his dissertation A Commutative Noncommutative Fractal Geometry and was honored with an EPSRC Doctoral Prize.

Samuel has held research fellowships at Australian National University and the University of St. Andrews, a guest lectureship at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany, and a post-doctoral position at Universität Bremen, also in Germany. His research interests range from operator theory (non-commutative geometry), to dynamical systems, to stochastic, to fractal geometry, to graph theory. His research has been and continues to be supported by grants from the Australian Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the U.K., the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Germany, and the National Science Foundation.

Thank You to Our Generous Donors

Private support enables the Mathematics department to continue to provide exceptional Learn by Doing opportunities for today’s students. Thank you to all the individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations who donated to the department.

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