Faculty news.
Federico Ardila - NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2015.
Federico Ardila - NSF Research Grant, 2008-2011. Combinatorics in geometry.
Federico Ardila - SFSU Presidential Award, 2009.
Javier Arsuaga - NIH Research Grant, 2007-2010. Modeling of DNA repair.
Javier Arsuaga and Mariel Vazquez - NIH Research Grant, 2008-2013. Multiscale analysis of CGH arrays from breast cancer patients using computational algebraic topology.
Javier Arsuaga and Mariel Vazquez - NSF Research Grant, 2009-2013. Topological characterization of DNA organization in bacteriophages.
Matthias Beck - NSF Research Grant, 2008-2011. Computations in Ehrhart theory.
Matthias Beck - NSF GK-12 Grant, 2009-2014. Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics.
Yitwah Cheung - NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2015. Diophantine Analysis of Dynamical Systems.
Yitwah Cheung - NSF Research Grant, 2007-2010. Interactions between number theory and ergodic theory.
Joseph Gubeladze - NSF Research Grant, 2010-2013. Four problems in polytopal algebraic combinatorics.
Joseph Gubeladze - NSF Research Grant, 2006-2009. Convex point configurations in algebraic combinatorics.
Eric Hsu - NSF CAREER Award, 2004-2009. Math teachers in online and live communities.
Eric Hsu, Judy Kysh, Diane Resek - NSF Math Science Partnership, 2003-2009. Revitalizing algebra.
Shidong Li - AFOSR Research Grant, 2011 - 2014. Frames and Compressed Sensing.
Shidong Li - NSF Research Grant, 2010-2013. Development of Nonorthogonal Fusion Frames and Reflective Sensing with Applications.
Shidong Li - NSF Research Grant, 2007-2010. Development of frame extensions and applications.
Alex Schuster - NSF Research Grant, 2006-2009. Sampling and interpolation on Riemann surfaces and in several complex variables.
Mariel Vazquez - NIH Research Grant, 2007-2010. Simulation of unknotting by Type II topoisomerases.
Mariel Vazquez - NSF CAREER Grant, 2011-2016. Topological mechanism of DNA unlinking by the XerCD-FtsK system.
Federico Ardila - Plenary Speaker, Colombian Mathematical Congress, 2011.
Federico Ardila - Plenary Speaker, Mexican Mathematical Congress, 2011.
Federico Ardila - Minicourse, NSF Mathematics Institutes' Modern Math Workshop, 2011.
Matthias Beck - Invited Speaker, Southern California-Nevada Section, MAA Meeting 2011.
Matthias Beck - Invited Speaker, Golden Section, MAA Meeting 2012.
Joseph Gubeladze - Plenary Speaker, International FPSAC Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, 2010.
Mariel Vazquez - Keynote Speaker, NSF Mathematics Institutes' Modern Math Workshop, 2011.
Student news.
In the last three years, the following alumni have continued on to Ph.D. programs:
Jameson Cahill - University of Missouri
Anastasia Chavez - UC Berkeley
Fang-I Chu - UC Santa Barbara
Daniel Dewoskin - University of Michigan
Laura Escobar - Cornell University
Kristen Freeman - UC Davis
Elizabeth Gross - University of Illinois, Chicago
Mela Hardin - UCLA
Andrew Herrmann - UC Davis
Benjamin Iriarte - MIT
Tatsiana Maskalevich - UC Santa Cruz
Lothar Narins - Berlin Mathematical School
Chris O' Neill - Duke University
Tu Pham - UC Riverside
Amanda Ruiz - Binghamton University
Dido Salazar-Torres - University of Iowa
Ashley Shimabuku - UC Davis
Jonathan Terhorst - UC Berkeley
Tim Wertz - UC Davis
Jon Yaggie - University of Illinois, Chicago
Ralf Youtz - Portland State University
Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics (CM)^2
2011 Fellows:
Catalina Betancourt
Jacob Bowen
Lisa Clayton
Michael Garcia
Michael Henley
James McErlain
Chad Montgomery
Katrina Wono
Rika Yatchak
Department news.
The mathematics department at San Francisco State University will host the following events:
- FPSAC 2010, the 22nd Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, in July, 2010.
- The International workshop on Optimal Frames and Operator Theory on Jan 17 -19, 2010.
- The 1st San Francisco International Meeting on DNA Topology on April 22-26, 2009. More information here.
- The 2009 Spring Western Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society on April 25-26, 2009. More information here.
- The Pamela Fong symposium, featuring De Witt Sumners, on March 18-19, 2009. More information here.
