Events

23rd Annual Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase

Prof. Bockting Events, Math Talks, Student Opportunities

On November 7th, DePaul hosted its 23rd Annual Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase. At the showcase, DePaul students communicated their research findings with the scientific community through poster presentations and research talks. Several Mathematical Sciences students presented their work, including:

Oral Presentations

  • Umid Ahmadali, The Six-Vertex Model with Partial Domain Wall Boundary Conditions (pDWBC) and the Probability Distribution of the Type-C Vertex in the Final Row
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Karl Liechty
  • Umid Ahmadali, Non-Distributive Intervals on the Type-B Tamari Lattice
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Emily Barnard
  • Owen Levens, Polynomials Arising from Sorted Binomial Coefficients
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allan Berele
  • Nicolas Oses Frola, The Effectiveness of a Size-Based Recognition Model on Motif Identification and Characterization
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shaun Mahoney, Penn State University

Poster Presentations

  • Clara Campos de Araujo, The Dirichlet Eigenvalue Problem on Grid Domains 
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Sher
    Work supported by the Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URAP)
  • Michael Czaplinski, A Tale of Knots with Many Twists and Turns
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung
  • Joosung Lee, Who Can Win in a Game of Knots?  
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung
  • Owen Levens, Pascalian Root Asymptotics 
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allan Berele
    Work supported by the Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP)
  • Jiahui Li, L-splines-of-order-4-algorithm
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung
  • Vu Phan, Expected Number of Turns to Complete a Generalized (m,n) Bingo Game 
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ilie Ugarcovici
  • Grant Williams, Can ChatGPT Help Undergraduates Solve Graduate Level Abstract Geometry Problems?  
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung

The showcase also featured a plenary talk by 2011 DePaul Math alumna Dr. Joelle Mbatchou. After graduating from DePaul in 2011, Dr. Mbatchou went on to earn Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Chicago.  In Dr. Mbatchou’s current role as a Senior Statistical Geneticist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,  she works on the development of statistical methods and computational tools for large-scale data sets. You can read more about her work here.

MAT Community Tea & Coffee Hour Dates for Autumn 2025

Prof. Bockting Events

Throughout the year, the MAT Department hosts a number of informal events meant to help build and sustain our mathematical sciences community here at DePaul. These events provide an opportunity to meet with fellow MAT students, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as MAT faculty members in a relaxed setting.

We will have five teas during the spring quarter:

  • Friday, 9/19 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 10/3 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 10/17 at 1:15-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 10/31 at 1:30-2:45 pm 
  • Friday, 11/14 at 1:30-2:45 pm 

These community hours will take place in the MAT Department office suite (on the 5th floor of SAC, roughly SAC 546). Light refreshments, such as coffee, tea, and cookies, will be served. We hope that you can join us.

MAT Community Tea & Coffee Hour Dates for Spring 2025

Prof. Bockting Events

Throughout the year, the MAT Department hosts a number of informal events meant to help build and sustain our mathematical sciences community here at DePaul. These events provide an opportunity to meet with fellow MAT students, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as MAT faculty members in a relaxed setting.

We will have five teas during the spring quarter:

  • Friday, 4/4 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 4/25 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 5/9 at 1:15-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 5/16 at 1:30-2:45 pm 
  • Friday, 5/30 at 1:30-2:45 pm 

These community hours will take place in the MAT Department office suite (on the 5th floor of SAC, roughly SAC 546). Light refreshments, such as coffee, tea, and cookies, will be served. We hope that you can join us.

DMC Spring Conference Trips

Prof. Bockting Events, Math Activity, Student Opportunities

The DePaul Math Club sent a small group of about 5 students on a back-to-back conference trip over Spring Break.  First they headed down to Joliet on Friday for the annual ISMAA meeting at the University of St. Francis. That night, they drove even further down to Terra Haute, Indiana, so that they could catch Rose-Hulman’s Undergraduate Research Conference the next day. Funnily enough, the troupe was mostly made up of graduate students. Even so, they all had a blast!

 

They saw all sorts of presentations, from urban topology to aquariums of elliptic curves. Although many talks were geared towards more of an undergraduate audience, there was plenty for our algebraist graduate students to enjoy, too. Going to two separate conferences in two days was a lot of driving. But it was also a lot of fascinating mathematics. Plus, the combination of bison spotting (that’s right, Kaelan and Graham were up close and personal with a herd of bison, please ask for pics! See the sample below!), followed by a sushi dinner at the end of the journey made it all worthwhile.

Bison Video!!!

     

MAT Community Tea & Coffee Hour Dates for Winter 2025

Prof. Bockting Events

Throughout the year, the MAT Department hosts a number of informal events meant to help build and sustain our mathematical sciences community here at DePaul. These events provide an opportunity to meet with fellow MAT students, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as MAT faculty members in a relaxed setting.

We will have five teas during the winter quarter:

  • Friday, 1/17 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 1/31 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 2/14 at 1:30-2:45 pm
  • Friday, 2/28 at 10:30-11:45 am (note the different time)
  • Friday, 3/14 at 1:15-1:55 pm (note the different time)

These community hours will take place in the MAT Department office suite (on the 5th floor of SAC, roughly SAC 546). Light refreshments, such as coffee, tea, and cookies, will be served. We hope that you can join us.

Alumni Panel on PhD Programs

Prof. Bockting Events, Outreach

We invite you to attend a panel discussion with recent DePaul alumni on their experiences in PhD programs!

Who: Anyone who is curious about PhD programs in science and math

What: A panel discussion in which recent DePaul alumni discuss their experiences applying for and taking part in PhD programs in pure and applied math.

When: November 7 at 4:30 PM

Where: in Arts & Letters Hall, Room 308 and on Zoom at https://depaul.zoom.us/j/95804448725

We hope to see you there!

2024 Summer Undergraduate Research

Prof. Bockting Events, Math Talks, Student Opportunities

Several students from the DePaul mathematics community spent their summers engaging in full-time mathematical research. Some students conducted research with DePaul faculty as part of the Undergraduate Summer Research Program, while others conducted research at external institutions.  Regardless of location, students learned to ask and answer their own questions, and even proved things that had never been proven before! So cool!

At the end of the summer, the following students came together and presented their work at the 2024 Mathematical Sciences Summer Research Showcase:

  • Rose Bittle, Modifications to the Spiral Array
  • Clara Campos, Optimal Transportation on Histograms (Research mentor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung)
  • Erik Dahlen, The Imbalance of a vector in a d-dimensional hypercube and the Eulerian numbers (Research mentor: Dr. T. Kyle Petersen)
  • Joosung Lee, Imbalance and Eulerian numbers (Research mentor: Dr. T. Kyle Petersen)
  • Owen Levens, Bijection, Collaboration, and Perseverance in Global Pattern Avoidance (Research mentor: Dr. Bridget Tenner)
  • Blair Johnson, Odd-Even Transposition Sort (Research mentor: Dr. T. Kyle Petersen)
  • Nicholas Oses Frola, Finding Frobenius Symmetry for Four Element Sets (Research mentor: Dr. David Sher)
  • Olivia Medina, 2D Conical Radon Transform used in Medical Imaging (Research mentor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung)

Abstracts for the student talks can be found here: 2024 Summer Research Showcase Abstracts

Interested in learning more about these students’ experiences? Keep an eye out for upcoming DePaul Math Club talks! 

Are you interested in conducting mathematical research? (Great!) You can start by talking to the faculty members you know or by reaching out to the MAT department’s undergraduate research coordinator, Dr. Emily Barnard (e.barnard@depaul.edu).

Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM)

Prof. Bockting Events, Student Opportunities

The Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM) will be accepting applications for participants between October 1 and October 18. This conference is open to all undergraduates and provides most of the local funding as well as some travel support. Students may present research talks or posters, or they can attend without presenting. The conference is helpful for all students, whether they know they want to go to graduate school in math or whether they like math and are unsure what to do with it. Please consider applying!

 

The conference will take place January 31 – February 2, 2025.  More information can be found here: NCUWM

CSH Fest 2024 – Save the Date!

Prof. Bockting Events, Outreach
The College of Science and Health’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, with support from the Dean’s Office, invites you to our 2nd annual CSH FEST to be held on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 2:30-6:00 pm on the Lincoln Park Campus Quad.

We are pleased to bring this event to our college and the DePaul community after such an incredible inaugural CSH Fest last year. This event is an opportunity to kick off the academic year and to meet, greet, and engage with our new and returning CSH graduate and undergraduate students.

In keeping with the strategic goals for the College, the purpose of CSH Fest is to create a sense of community and belonging while celebrating the richness and diversity of our students, faculty, and staff in science and health fields. CSH Fest is free, and there will be snacks, games, prizes, cotton candy, snow cones, and an informational fair with CSH units and student organizations as well as other partners within and outside of DePaul. DIBS will also be making an appearance!

Please save the date and spread the word to your friends. More information with an RSVP is coming soon!