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North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad hosted by Emory University
Published Date: 2015-02-06 On Jan 29, 2015, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Program in Linguistics and hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is a contest in which high school students solve problems in computational linguistics. Winners of the competition can participate in an invitational round, which can ultimately lead to participation in an international competition. This year Emory joined other top universities (52 in all) in hosting the event, including Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Penn, and Yale. Emory was the only school in the southeast to serve as a host. Invitations were sent to over 70 high school academic bowl coaches in Georgia, ultimately yielding 23 participants, and putting Emory in the top third of schools in the nation in terms of number of participants. The event was held in the Winship Ballroom, and participants received a mug (with an Emory logo), a campus tour, and lunch at Cox Hall. Emory undergraduate students from Computer Science and Linguistics Science helped to run the event. The main organizers of the event was Jinho Choi from Computer Science and Phillip Wolff from Linguistics.

North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad hosted by Emory University

Published Date: 2015-02-06
On Jan 29, 2015, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Program in Linguistics and hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is a contest in which high school students solve problems in computational linguistics. Winners of the competition can participate in an invitational round, which can ultimately lead to participation in an international competition. This year Emory joined other top universities (52 in all) in hosting the event, including Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Penn, and Yale. Emory was the only school in the southeast to serve as a host. Invitations were sent to over 70 high school academic bowl coaches in Georgia, ultimately yielding 23 participants, and putting Emory in the top third of schools in the nation in terms of number of participants. The event was held in the Winship Ballroom, and participants received a mug (with an Emory logo), a campus tour, and lunch at Cox Hall. Emory undergraduate students from Computer Science and Linguistics Science helped to run the event. The main organizers of the event was Jinho Choi from Computer Science and Phillip Wolff from Linguistics.

Dr. Alessandro Veneziani profiled in the Italian newspaper L’Eco di Bergamo
Published Date: 2015-01-26 Dr. Alessandro Veneziani has been profiled in the Italian newspaper L’Eco di Bergamo. To view the article in its entirety, please click here . You can translate a version of the full article that is published on this website.

We are hiring! Faculty openings in MathCS
Published Date: 2014-12-18 The department of Mathematics and Computer Science has multiple openings for tenure track faculty positions to begin in Fall 2015. Areas of interest include: Number Theory, Computer Science Lecturer, and several specializations in Data Science (please follow the individual links for position details). Please contact chair@mathcs.emory.edu for general information.

Number Theory Research ranked 15th among the top 100 stories in science in 2014
$news$	Published Date: 2014-12-01 Ken Ono, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, and his collaborators Michael Griffin and Ole Warnaar, have been recognized for their groundbreaking research in number theory and representation theory. Their framework of Rogers-Ramanujan identities has been ranked the 15th among the top 100 stories in science in 2014 by Discover magazine. Here is a link to the story: http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/15-a-beautiful-find.

Number Theory Research ranked 15th among the top 100 stories in science in 2014

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Published Date: 2014-12-01
Ken Ono, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, and his collaborators Michael Griffin and Ole Warnaar, have been recognized for their groundbreaking research in number theory and representation theory. Their framework of Rogers-Ramanujan identities has been ranked the 15th among the top 100 stories in science in 2014 by Discover magazine.

Here is a link to the story: http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/15-a-beautiful-find.

Team Emory LTL Places third at the ACM ICPC SE Regionals Competition
Published Date: 2014-11-17 The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science wish to congratulate Denis Savenkov, Liqi Shu, Tony Wang, and Tianyi Lu for placing third in Division 2 of the ACM ICPC SE Regionals competition. The competition results can be found here.

Team Emory LTL Places third at the ACM ICPC SE Regionals Competition

Published Date: 2014-11-17

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science wish to congratulate Denis Savenkov, Liqi Shu, Tony Wang, and Tianyi Lu for placing third in Division 2 of the ACM ICPC SE Regionals competition.

The competition results can be found here.

Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Published Date: 2014-11-01 Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory Nov. 1-2, 2014 Feature Speaker: Peter Keevash, Oxford University Location: Room W201 of Math and Science Center Further information at: www.mathcs.emory.edu/~rg/ALS13.html

Jinho Choi wins Yahoo Labs ACE Award
Published Date: 2014-10-06 Jinho Choi, Assistant Professor in MathCS and QuanTM is one of five recipients worldwide of Yahoo Lab's 2014 Academic Career Enhancement (ACE) award. Jinho’s research focuses on the optimization of natural language processing for "robustness" on various data and "scalability" on large data. A full news item is at http://labs.yahoo.com/news/2014-yahoo-ace-award-recipients-selected/. Congratulations Jinho!

Jinho Choi wins Yahoo Labs ACE Award

Published Date: 2014-10-06
Jinho Choi, Assistant Professor in MathCS and QuanTM is one of five recipients worldwide of Yahoo Lab's 2014 Academic Career Enhancement (ACE) award. Jinho’s research focuses on the optimization of natural language processing for "robustness" on various data and "scalability" on large data. A full news item is at http://labs.yahoo.com/news/2014-yahoo-ace-award-recipients-selected/.

Congratulations Jinho!

Doing Math with Movie Stars
Published Date: 2014-09-26 Dr. Ken Ono spent time with actor Dev Patel to coach him on his portrayal of math genius Ramanujan, on the set of "The Man Who Knew Infinity." Click here for the full article.

Li Xiong receives $1 million PCORI Funding award
Published Date: 2014-09-23 Emory University researcher Li Xiong has won a $1.06 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She will use the award to develop improved methods for building data registries that benefit biomedical research while also guaranteeing patient privacy. Click here for the full article.

Ken Ono to give a plenary invited address at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meeting
Published Date: 2014-09-18 Ken Ono, the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, will be giving an MAA invited plenary address at the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) this January in San Antonio, Texas. The JMM, hosted by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), is the largest gathering of mathematicians in the United States with several thousand participants. Ken will be speaking about his joint work with Michael Griffin and Ole Warnaar on their framework of Rogers-Ramanujan identities, research which has been selected as one of the “Top Science Stories of 2014” by Discover magazine. Ken will be profiled in the end-of-the-year issue of Discover magazine. This lecture will be Professor Ono’s second invited address at the JMM. In 2009 he delivered the AMS plenary invited address.

Ken Ono to give a plenary invited address at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meeting

Published Date: 2014-09-18
Ken Ono, the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, will be giving an MAA invited plenary address at the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) this January in San Antonio, Texas. The JMM, hosted by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), is the largest gathering of mathematicians in the United States with several thousand participants. Ken will be speaking about his joint work with Michael Griffin and Ole Warnaar on their framework of Rogers-Ramanujan identities, research which has been selected as one of the “Top Science Stories of 2014” by Discover magazine. Ken will be profiled in the end-of-the-year issue of Discover magazine. This lecture will be Professor Ono’s second invited address at the JMM. In 2009 he delivered the AMS plenary invited address.