The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics is dedicated to excellence in research and teaching in mathematics, statistics, and mathematics education. Guided by the mission of Portland State University and by the principles of disciplinary excellence and cross-disciplinary engagement, we are particularly committed to building expertise and providing leadership in such areas as applied and computational mathematics and statistics and mathematics education.
Departmental News
A faculty team led by Senior Instructor Rachel Webb was presented with a $10,000 Digital Learning Innovation Award on November 13th, 2018, acknowledging her recent work in using an Active and Adaptive course model for introductory probability and statistics courses at Portland State. See the Online Learning Consortium web site for more details. Portland State was one of three institutions and ten faculty-led teams selected from among 64 submissions in year three of the Online Learning Consortium’s (OLC) DLIAward competition.
11/19/2018
Prof. Eva Thanheiser is part of a team that won a $2 million NSF DRK-12 grant ($546,626 of which will be spent in Portland State University under the direction of Professor Thanheiser). The PI of the grant is Kate Melhuish, one of Portland State’s own PhD graduates, now at Texas State University.
11/5/2018
Prof. Bruno Jedynak is part of a team that just won an $18 million grant from the NIH, entitled “Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer Prevention,” of which $491K is to be spent at Portland State University.
11/5/2018
Prof. Bruno Jedynak and Asst. Prof. Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, together with two OHSU faculty, have received a 1-year $49,999 award from the 2018 OHSU-PSU Collaborative Project Seed Funding entitled “Statistical Learning of Longitudinal MRI for Predicting Breast Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.”
10/8/2018
Prof. Bruno Jedynak and Asst. Prof. Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez are being funded by Orcatech (through an NIH subaward) for a year ($66,825) to explore the use of continuous-time stochastic processes to model digital markers, and develop tailored tools for the design and analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) for Alzheimer Disease treatments.
10/8/2018
Asst. Prof. Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez is being funded by an NSF subaward ($17,360 for 1 year) to develop statistical methodology and software implementation of predictive spatio-temporal modeling to support the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and other ecological research.
10/8/2018
Prof. Jeffrey Ovall directed an undergraduate research project this summer through an REU funded by the National Science Foundation. This was one of the 8 undergraduate research projects conducted this summer as part of a new REU site established in Portland by the recent NSF grant titled “REU Site: Computational Modeling Serving the City,” 2018-2021, $302,400. In this collaborative effort between CLAS and MCECS, led by Prof. Christof Teuscher (PI) and Prof. Jay Gopalakrishnan (co-PI), PICS plays a critical role. During the training of the first cohort, our doctoral students Dow Drake and Ben Parker introduced the undergraduates to the PICS supercomputer.
10/8/2018
The American Mathematical Society published a new book by Emer. Assoc. Prof. John Erdman, Emeritus Associate Professor at the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The book, "A Problems Based Course in Advanced Calculus", is designed for a course in advanced calculus that promotes active learning through problem solving. The book is available via the following lnk: https://bookstore.ams.org/amstext-32/.
6/7/2018
