Student Feature - Yuxin Chen

Yuxin Chen is currently a PhD student under Mary Silber at Northwestern. She was an undergraduate at Dalhousie University where she received Sir William Young Gold Medal in Mathematics given to the best undergraduate student upon graduation.

Student Feature - Joshua Garland

Joshua Garland is an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Colorado (supervised by Elizabeth Bradley), an M.S. in Applied Mathematics also from the University of Colorado, and a dual B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Colorado Mesa University.

Student Feature - Kelly Finn

Kelly is a 3rd year PhD student in the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California Davis.  Her advisor is Dr. Brenda McCowan of the school of Veterinary Medicine, and she also collaborates with Dr. Eliza Bliss-Moreau from the Psychology Department, Dr. Raissa D’Souza and Dr. Jim Crutchfield of the Complexity Sciences Center, and Dr. Andrew MacIntosh of Kyoto University.  

Student Feature - Sean P. Cornelius

Sean Cornelius discusses his interest in the emerging field of network science.

SIAM students unite! Report from a successful student conference

The fifth annual Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference (CASSC) took place on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). It was a completely student-run event that is organized by the SIAM student chapter leaders from UIC, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and Northwestern University. The broad goal of the conference is to provide students involved in applied mathematics research a platform to present their work to an engaged student audience and an opportunity to expand their professional network. This year, CASSC featured twelve student talks and three plenary speakers.