2014 Putnam Competition results
Six IIT students chose to participate in the 2014 Putnam Competition and Todor Markov made the list of "Top Participants" this year. For context, of the 4113 self-selected students who gave up their...
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AMAT Professor and Chair Hickernell Speaks at Statistics Conference
Fred J. Hickernell, chair and professor of applied mathematics, presented an invited talk, “ Guaranteed Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals for Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulationâ€, at the 47th...
IIT Offers New Master’s in Computational Decision Science and Operations Research
June 10, 2015 CHICAGO - Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has introduced a new Master of Science in Computational Decision Science and Operations Research (CDSOR) to meet the growing demand for...
Students Win Awards at 2015 Kryptos Competition and Mathematical Modeling Contest
Tianci Zhu (AMAT 3rd Year) and Meng Wang (BIOL 3rd Year) were awarded the level of “Amateur Codebreakers†at the Fifth Annual Kryptos Competition, held April 16-20 at Central Washington University...
Applied Mathematics Ph.D. Student Dane Wilburne Awarded the NSF-EAPSI Fellowship for Summer 2015
Applied mathematics Ph.D. student Dane Wilburne's research proposal for computing Markov bases for multinomial logit models has been selected for funding under the 2015 National Science Foundation...
Petrović Gives Six Invited Talks
Sonja Petrovic, assistant professor of applied mathematics, spoke on “Goodness of Fit for Log-Linear Network Models: Dynamic Markov Bases Using Hypergraphs†at the Workshop on Algebraic Statistics...
Hickernell Speaks at Brown and Northwestern
Fred Hickernell, applied mathematics chair and professor, spoke at Brown University’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) in September. He gave the talk...
IIT at the Annual Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference
The applied mathematics department had a substantial presence at the annual SIAM conference in July at the Palmer House Hilton in Â鶹APP, organizing several minisymposia highlighting the department’s...
IIT Professor of Applied Mathematics Jeffrey Duan Authors New Book, An Introduction To Stochastic Dynamics
CHICAGO – September 30 – Jinqiao (Jeffrey) Duan, professor of applied mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology, has written a new book, An Introduction to Stochastic Dynamics, to be published...
Former Applied Mathematics Student, Anita Thomas, Gets Published
Anita Thomas (AMAT ‘13) co-authored a paper, “A Rotation Scheme for Accurately Computing Meteoroid Flux,†with Martin Ratliff, Ph.D., scientist, Reliability Engineering Office, NASA Jet Propulsion...