Tuesday, February 4, 2025
On Friday, 24 January 2025, the Department of Applied Mathematics held its first graduate mini-conference. The one-day event featured 14 talks by graduate students with representation from each of the five research areas of the department. The members of the organizing committee were: Khush Bhavsar, Florian Girelli, Vyom Patel, José Polo-Gómez, and María Rosa Preciado-Rivas.
Prizes were awarded to the best three presenters, determined by popular vote from the audience. The winners were:
- Maliha Ahmed (supervised by Sue Ann Campbell), From Synapses to Networks: Modeling Seizure Resolution in Absence Epilepsy
- Hassaan Qazi (supervised by Roberto Guglielmi), Impulsive Optimal Control Strategies in Pest Management
- Jiayue Yang (supervised by Rob Mann), From black hole thermodynamics to black hole chemistry
Congratulations to Maliha, Hassaan, and Jiayue!
