2023 Archived News

UofM Research in the Newsletters

• Dr. Irena Lasiecka, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has been honored with the title of IFIP Fellow by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the field of information processing, alongside four other distinguished individuals. The announcement was made at the latest IFIP General Assembly meeting in Bratislava, where the 2023 Fellows were named: Dines Bjørner, Chris Johnson, Irena Lasiecka, Jayadev Misra, and Jaideep Vaidya. For more details about this prestigious distinction and the other awardees, please visit https://www.ifipnews.org/ifip-announces-2023-awards/.
• Dr. Bentuo Zheng has been named departmental Erdos Professor 2023-2026. Prior awardees were Paul Balister (2013-2016), David Grynkiewicz (2016-2019), and Mate Wierdl (2019-2023). 
• Dr. Irena Lasiecka, a distinguished University professor and the chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, was recently featured by SIAM News in an article honoring mathematicians and statisticians.
• FY 23 Communities of Research Scholars: This was created to cultivate interdisciplinary discourse and nurture the growth of collaborative research across UofM. Alistair Windsor was recognized for his project with IIS "The language of science implications for teaching and learning".
• FY 2023 Principal Investigators:
  • Manohar Aggarwal
  • Irena Lasiecka
  • Bentuo Zheng
• TOP Faculty by SCOPUS H -index.  A total of 20 faculties were recognized. From the Department of Mathematical Sciences:
  • Irena Lasiecka: 52
  • Béla Bollobás: 45.
  • Roberto Triggiani: 42
• Google Scholar Highly Cited Authors. A total of 20 faculties were recognized. From the Department of Mathematical Sciences:
  • Irena Lasiecka: 20,617
    Remark: Two additional members from the DMS should be added to this list: Béla Bollobás and Roberto Triggiani have Google citation counts surpassing some of those mentioned in the Research Celebration brochure. Due to being affiliated with institutions different from UofM, their Google Scholar citations are not currently associated with the UofM. To show solidarity with the University, it is recommended that they link their accounts with the UofM.

Presentations

• Dr. Irena Lasiecka is one of the 9 plenary speakers at the 22^nd ECMI Conference (https://ecmi2023.org) on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 26-30 June, Wroclaw, Poland. ECMI stands for The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry. The title of her presentation: Can we control flutter in flow-structure interactions? Click here for the poster.
• Dr. E. Olúṣẹ́gun George, professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has been invited by the National Association of Mathematicians to give the 2023 Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid Lecture.
• Dr. Irena Lasiecka was one of the 9 plenary speakers at the 14th ISAAC Congress in Sao Paolo, Brasil held July 17-21, 2023. The Congress featured over 300 participants. See the Link Below: https://dcm.ffclrp.usp.br/isaac/
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Conferences at the University of Memphis

The Mid-South DATA Conference 2023 will be held on April 6 – 7, 2023.

The 6th International Conference on Design of Experiments (ICODOE 2022) will be held on May 8 – 11, 2023.

Rankings

Recent 2023 Ranking of Mathematics Departments: The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Memphis is ranked # 50 nationally and # 112 worldwide on Research.com website, among Departments of Mathematics). The university ranking for Mathematics was developed by Research.com, one of the prominent platforms for computer science research maintaining reliable data on scientific contributions since 2014, with the aim of answering the question of what is the best Mathematics university. More details can be found on the methodology page. A detailed definition of our research process can be found on the link below.