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2018 Evans Hall Speaker
$news$	Published Date: 2018-04-30 The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is pleased to announce the 24th annual Evans/Hall Lecture and Award Ceremony on Monday April 30th at 4pm in E208, Mathematics and Science Center, with reception following. Our speaker this year will be Christine U.Lee of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. The Evans/Hall Lecture honors graduate and undergraduate students in the department and recognizes outstanding student accomplishments via the Trevor Evans Award, Deborah Jackson Award, Marshall Hall Award, Research Awards ,and Departmental Awards.

2018 Evans Hall Speaker

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Published Date: 2018-04-30
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is pleased to announce the 24th annual Evans/Hall Lecture and Award Ceremony on Monday April 30th at 4pm in E208, Mathematics and Science Center, with reception following.

Our speaker this year will be Christine U.Lee of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

The Evans/Hall Lecture honors graduate and undergraduate students in the department and recognizes outstanding student accomplishments via the Trevor Evans Award, Deborah Jackson Award, Marshall Hall Award, Research Awards ,and Departmental Awards.

2018 Mathematical Contest in Modeling Winners
Published Date: 2018-04-30 The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science wish to congratulate Evan Scope Crafts, Paul Vienhage, Dilim Obiago and Dr. Lars Ruthotto for gaining the "Meritorious Winners" prize at the 2018 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. The contest resulted with 10,670 teams representing institutions from eighteen countries. The 2018 MCM was primarily an online contest with teams obtaining the contest materials and downloaded the problem and data at the prescribed time through COMAPs MCM website.

2018 Mathematical Contest in Modeling Winners

Published Date: 2018-04-30

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science wish to congratulate Evan Scope Crafts, Paul Vienhage, Dilim Obiago and Dr. Lars Ruthotto for gaining the "Meritorious Winners" prize at the 2018 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

The contest resulted with 10,670 teams representing institutions from eighteen countries. The 2018 MCM was primarily an online contest with teams obtaining the contest materials and downloaded the problem and data at the prescribed time through COMAPs MCM website.

Workshop on Reduced Models for the Cardiovascular System
Published Date: 2018-04-25 The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University is pleased to host the Workshop on Reduced Models for the Cardiovascular System on Thursday, April 26th and Friday, April 27th. The schedule and additional information can be found here.

Ono to give Simons Foundation Distinguished Lecture on Pi Day
$news$	Published Date: 2018-02-19 To celebrate "Pi Day" (3/14/18), Ken Ono will be giving a public lecture at the Simons Foundation in New York. He will be speaking on his recent work on the Riemann Hypothesis with Michael Griffin, Larry Rolen and Don Zagier. The lecture will be streamed live. For those wishing to attend, tickets are limited. See this website for details https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/the-riemann-hypothesis/.

Ono to give Simons Foundation Distinguished Lecture on Pi Day

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Published Date: 2018-02-19
To celebrate "Pi Day" (3/14/18), Ken Ono will be giving a public lecture at the Simons Foundation in New York. He will be speaking on his recent work on the Riemann Hypothesis with Michael Griffin, Larry Rolen and Don Zagier. The lecture will be streamed live. For those wishing to attend, tickets are limited. See this website for details https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/the-riemann-hypothesis/.

Agichtein honored with the inaugural WSDM 2018 Test of Time Award
$news$	Published Date: 2018-02-09 Eugene Agichtein of Emory MathCS and his co-authors from Yahoo! Research were honored at the 2018 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining for their paper, "Finding High Quality Content in Social Media." This methodology, developed 10 years ago, could form the underpinnings for detecting spurious content in social media, phenomenon that has recently come to be highlighted." The original paper may be accessed via https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1341531.1341557. Congratulations Eugene!

Agichtein honored with the inaugural WSDM 2018 Test of Time Award

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Published Date: 2018-02-09
Eugene Agichtein of Emory MathCS and his co-authors from Yahoo! Research were honored at the 2018 ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining for their paper, "Finding High Quality Content in Social Media." This methodology, developed 10 years ago, could form the underpinnings for detecting spurious content in social media, phenomenon that has recently come to be highlighted."

The original paper may be accessed via https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1341531.1341557. Congratulations Eugene!

Ono wins a 2018 Prose Award from the American Association of Publishers
$news$	Published Date: 2018-02-08 The PROSE Awards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division. Presented since 1976, the awards annually recognize distinguished professional and scholarly books, reference works, journals, and electronic content. Ken Ono’s 2017 book “Harmonic Maass forms and Mock Modular Forms” is the winner in the mathematics category, chosen from hundreds of submissions. Ono co-authored the book with his former postdocs and students Kathrin Bringmann, Amanda Folsom, and Larry Rolen. (Click here for the complete list of winners: https://proseawards.com/winners/.

Ono wins a 2018 Prose Award from the American Association of Publishers

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Published Date: 2018-02-08
The PROSE Awards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division. Presented since 1976, the awards annually recognize distinguished professional and scholarly books, reference works, journals, and electronic content. Ken Ono’s 2017 book “Harmonic Maass forms and Mock Modular Forms” is the winner in the mathematics category, chosen from hundreds of submissions. Ono co-authored the book with his former postdocs and students Kathrin Bringmann, Amanda Folsom, and Larry Rolen. (Click here for the complete list of winners: https://proseawards.com/winners/.

Lars Ruthotto receives NSF CAREER Award
$news$	Published Date: 2018-02-02 Professor Lars Ruthotto has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for his project on rigorous and efficient methods to design and train deep neural networks. Based on a new mathematical framework, Dr. Ruthotto's approach simplifies design and analysis by formulating deep learning as a dynamic optimal control problem, and has many implications for numerous societal applications. More details are at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1751636. Congratulations Lars!

Lars Ruthotto receives NSF CAREER Award

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Published Date: 2018-02-02
Professor Lars Ruthotto has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for his project on rigorous and efficient methods to design and train deep neural networks. Based on a new mathematical framework, Dr. Ruthotto's approach simplifies design and analysis by formulating deep learning as a dynamic optimal control problem, and has many implications for numerous societal applications. More details are at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1751636.
Congratulations Lars!

Distinguished Lecture - CSI Research Seminar
$news$	Published Date: 2018-02-02 Distinguished Lecture Dr. C. Mohan IBM Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University New Era in Distributed Computing with Blockchains and Databases Friday, February 2, 2018 at 3:00pm Math & Science Center, E208 http://csi.mathcs.emory.edu/mohan-02022018.html.

Emory Team selected for Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge
$news$	Published Date: 2018-02-02 Eugene Agichtein and his CSI PhD student Zihao Wang are one of 8 teams worldwide selected to compete in Amazon's Alexa challenge to advance human computer interaction. This selection comes with $250k and unlimited cloud support, to compete for $1.5M later this year ... and possibly be the socialbot technology in future Alexa devices. Details are at https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize

Emory Team selected for Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge

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Published Date: 2018-02-02
Eugene Agichtein and his CSI PhD student Zihao Wang are one of 8 teams worldwide selected to compete in Amazon's Alexa challenge to advance human computer interaction. This selection comes with $250k and unlimited cloud support, to compete for $1.5M later this year ... and possibly be the socialbot technology in future Alexa devices. Details are at https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize

New method calculates equilibrium constant at the small scale
$news$	Published Date: 2018-01-30 Graduate students Olivia Beckwith and Robert Schneider, and students from Chemistry, collaborate on the microscopic level of nature. Read the full story here. Photo by Stephen Nowland, Emory Photo/Video