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The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: Making Black Girls Count in Math Education: A Black Feminist Vision of Transformative Teaching
Abstract: Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge… Read more
We are currently accepting nominations for the annual Frederic & Julia Wan Lecturer Series, as advertised in the December 2023 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: Computational Hypergraph Discovery, a framework for connecting the dots
Abstract: Function approximation can be categorized into three levels of complexity. Type 1: Approximate an unknown function given (possibly… Read more
AMATH had a special guest during Tea Time yesterday - Dubs! After keeping his appearance secret for months, students, faculty, and staff were pleasantly surprised and eagerly awaited their opportunity meet, and have their picture taken with UW's mascot.
Dubs was also a good sport when he met AMATH's own "mascot" Barkimedes. Feel free to look at our… Read more
By Bernard DeconinckSeptember 30, 2023
Eight years and counting. Has there been a “normal” year in my time as chair? We’ve had a pandemic, an earthquake retrofit (including moving everyone out), a 50th anniversary for the department, and many more events and incidents, some good, some bad. This past year served up a fire in Lewis Hall! It is probably not an exaggeration to say that if (now full) Professor Matt Lorig had not had early-morning online office hours from Lewis… Read more
Michael I. Jordan: An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single, autonomous agent.… Read more
By Kyle Sledge
It was fall 2017; the leaves were changing colors, and I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of unfinished business. A few months prior, I successfully passed the third and final exam of the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation, after multiple years of intense self-study. Earning the right to use the CFA credential was a significant career milestone that paired well with my on-the-job training as a bank examiner with a regulatory agency. With this… Read more
By Kelsey Marcinko
It’s wild to me that I’ve been carrying the title of “Dr. Marcinko” for 3 years, and I am at the beginning of my fourth(!) year as a professor at Whitworth University, my alma mater. (Whitworth is a Christian liberal-arts university on the drier side of Washington state). Enough time has somehow passed so that most of the current Ph.D. students in the Applied Math department are students I never knew. As I reflect back on my time in the department, I remain grateful… Read more
By Natalie Sheils
In graduate school, the focus was going deep. I was cultivating myself to become the world authority in one specific area. While I was encouraged to read from various areas and take classes from other departments, I also had to write a thesis which meant learning about (in my case) the Fokas transform method for linear PDEs in incredible depth. What remained unbeknown to me during those times was how this seemingly niche training, and the relationships sprouting from… Read more
