mathematics

Students are invited to take part in the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) DataFest Friday, April 12, through Sunday, April 14, in Nord Hall, Room 356. DataFest is a hackathon-style event and celebration of data in which teams of undergraduate students work around the clock to find and…

The five-member Case Western Reserve University League of Legends team is rarely in one place at the same time; each plays the strategy game from their own corners of campus. But together, they work to take control of the opposing team’s base on the gaming map. The team’s strong season continues…

A textbook on linear algebra written by Mark Meckes and Elizabeth Meckes, both professors of mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, was reviewed by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the main venue for reviews of books at this level. The book, Linear Algebra, was published by…

Elisabeth Werner, professor of mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics, was featured in a pair of videos about convex floating bodies on the Numberphile YouTube channel. Numberphile is a math outreach project supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley,…

Nick Gurski, assistant professor of mathematics, has been appointed as a founding editor of the new journal Compositionality, named after the principle that describes and quantifies how complex things can be assembled out of simpler parts. The open-access journal will feature research using…

Elisabeth Werner, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Bo’az Klartag, professor of mathematics at the Weizmann Institute and Tel Aviv University, wrote a review article titled “Some open problems in asymptotic geometric analysis” for Notices of the…

Elizabeth Meckes and Mark Meckes, professors in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, published Linear Algebra, a textbook written with a focus on student accessibility, with Cambridge University Press. View the textbook at…

Elizabeth Meckes, associate professor of mathematics, spoke about "Random matrices with prescribed eigenvalues" at the Finger Lakes Probability Seminar in Rochester, New York, in April. See more information.

Elisabeth Werner, professor of mathematics, will teach a weeklong course on "Floating bodies and affine invariants" at Goethe University Frankfurt from Monday, July 2, to Friday, July 6. Course topics will include floating bodies, affine surface area and approximation of convex bodies by…

Ondrej Maxian, an undergraduate student studying applied mathematics and chemical engineering, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Using this funding, he will pursue a PhD in applied mathematics at New York University after graduating from Case Western Reserve…