mathematics

The 2021 Southeastern Probability Conference, hosted by Duke University, will be held virtually May 17-18. This year, the conference will be held in honor of Elizabeth Meckes, professor the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at CWRU, who passed away in December 2020. The…

According to data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), only about 30% of female students globally choose to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related fields in higher education. The reason? UNESCO suggests “long-standing…

Elisabeth Werner, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, co-organized the trimester program "The Interplay between High-Dimensional Geometry and Probability.” The program, held at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, will last…

Case Western Reserve this week is mourning the passing of Elizabeth Meckes, a professor of mathematics renowned worldwide for her brilliance—and beloved on campus for her compassion. An undergraduate alumna who earned her doctorate at Stanford in 2006 and became a full professor here in 2018,…

Case Western Reserve biology, math researchers part of $3 million National Institutes of Health initiative to investigate how neurons work together to regulate movement Case Western Reserve University researchers are part of an international team striving to crack the secrets of how our…

Researchers from Case Western Reserve, University of Akron, develop algorithm used by Cuyahoga County to predict fluctuations in number of COVID-19 cases A highly accurate forecast tool created by mathematicians from Case Western Reserve University and The University of Akron is being used by…

Photo taken prior to social distancing guidelines. Elizabeth Meckes and Elisabeth Werner, professors in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, were selected as 2020 Simons Fellows. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year,…

Nick Gurski, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, gave a presentation titled “Pseudofunctors and simplicial categories” at the Category Theory Octoberfest 2019 at Johns Hopkins University. Gurski spoke about ongoing research at the Category…

Nick Gurski, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, co-wrote a piece titled “Topological Invariants from Higher Categories” for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Gurski’s co-authors were Niles Johnson, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio…

Cambridge University Press will publish a book by Elizabeth Meckes, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, next month. The book is titled The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups. The publisher provided the following description of…