SIAM Chapter BSU

🥳🥳Join the Fun and Fundraise with SIAM🥳🥳

As proud SIAM members, we love stepping outside the box to participate in activities that not only help raise funds for our society but also foster a sense of community! Our recent ticket scanning event was a fantastic way to contribute to important initiatives like SCUDEM, SIAM socials, and our upcoming outreach programs.

Not only did we support our chapter, but we also enjoyed a wonderful opportunity to bond and network outside our usual Tuesday meetings. A heartfelt thank you to all our SIAM members and officers who showed up and made this event a success!

We encourage all members to take advantage of such events—they are a great way to help contribute to the SIAM BSU chapter while having fun! Plus, who doesn’t love free perks. After the ticket scanning, we got to watch a game for free., and our dinner was covered with delicious free food!

Let’s continue to build our SIAM community. Please keep an eye out for more events coming your way!

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Exciting Insights at SIAM!

Have you noticed how diverse our discussions are in the field of applied mathematics? Recently, we had the pleasure of learning from Dr Michael Perlmutter, who delved into the world of regression. While you may be familiar with the term, Dr. Perlmutter took us deeper into its application within machine learning, covering essential topics like classification and logistic regression.

We know you want to hear more about these insightful talks, so remember to join us every Tuesday! Our sessions are designed to enrich your understanding and spark new ideas in applied mathematics.

A big thank you to Dr Michael Perlmutter for his engaging presentation!

Looking forward to seeing you all this Tuesday!

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A Big Thank you to Dr. Grady Wright!

We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Grady Wright for an inspiring session at SIAM!

SIAM is all about connecting, learning and exploring new ideas in applied mathematics, which is very broad. Thanks to everyone who joined us, and stay tuned for more exciting talks and presentations this semester!

📢Quick Reminder: SIAM Weekly Talks Every Tuesday!📢

Join us every Tuesday from1:45pm to 2:45pm in MB 135 for our SIAM weekly talks and presentations! Don’t miss out—come be part of the conversation and connect with others in our field!

See you Tuesday!
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Recap: Distinguished Lecture by Dr Stephan Wild on Optimization and Learning

We were thrilled to host Dr. Stephan Wild for an insightful Distinguished Lecture on “Optimization and Learning with Zeroth-Order Stochastic Oracles”. This session dived into an especially challenging area of data-driven science and engineering: how to effectively work with noisy oracles that aren’t suited for differentiable programming.

Dr. Wild shared groundbreaking approaches for tackling problems where only noisy feedback is available and traditional gradient-based methods fall short. He discussed innovative strategies that:

1) Improve scalability in zeroth-order optimization, especially under noisy conditions.
2) Utilize randomized subspaces and adaptive estimates to refine results iteratively.

This was such an incredible opportunity to explore advanced optimization techniques in data science and engineering anyway do you want to hear more😉? Join us every Tuesday for more seminars and lectures—don’t miss a day!

Thank you to everyone who attended!

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🍂📘Hello, Fall Semester!📘🍂

Welcome, SIAM members! We’re excited for a semester filled with inspiring talks, new ideas, and opportunities to connect with fellow math enthusiasts. We might be a little behind schedule, but we’re all in and can’t wait to kick off an amazing season together.

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🎉 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that three of our esteemed members,𝐘𝐚𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐨, 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐲𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐦𝐚𝐧 and 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐨 successfully defended their dissertations and are now Doctors! 🥳

A special shout-out to 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐨 and 𝐘𝐚𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐨, who both served as presidents of our SIAM Chapter BSU. Your leadership and dedication have left a lasting impact on our community.

We are incredibly proud of your hard work and accomplishments. Here's to your future success and the amazing contributions you will continue to make in the world of STEM!

📣 Exciting news from SIAM BSU! 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce our first fall semester social event. Join us for casual talks, interactions, fun games, delicious food and refreshing drinks.

📍Event details
🏠 Venue: Math Building Room 126
⏱️ Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
📅 Date: Thursday, 9th November 2023

Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more event updates.

📢 Remainder

Don’t forget our weekly SPUDS/SIAM BSU Chapter talks every Tuesday from 1:45pm - 2:45pm in MB 135 to explore the world of mathematics with engaging speakers.

See you there!

📣Please join us every Tuesday 1:45-2:45pm in MB 135 for the SPUDS/ SIAM BSU Chapter talks!

Expand your horizons and dive into the fascinating world of mathematics with our engaging speakers. 📈📊

🗓️Mark your calendars and don’t miss out on these enlightening discussions.

See you there!

Let's take it back to yesterday. Research Computing Days Hackathon. The event featured participants from Boise State University, AIMS Rwanda, and SADC HPC Botswana. Guys, thank you for attending and also participating. Stay tuned for the awards event.

Kyanjo Brian

Do you know? SIAM BSU is hosting this year’s Research Computing Days Hackathon. We have participants coming from Boise State University, AIMS Rwanda, MIT, and SADC HPC Botswana. This event is taking place on March 29, 2023. Each member of the winning team gets a brand new laptop. Amazing, right? Registration is still ongoing…

After SIAM BSU chapter social event and fun games. Great to see people showing up for the event.

It was a great time with our professor Jodi Mead.

Join us to our next chapter social event!

Hello everyone,
We are pleased to invite you to our first SIAM BSU talk series which will be held next week on Wednesday 14th from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. We shall be hosting Titus Nde Nyarko a PhD computing student with emphasis in Data science to take us through his research leading to completion of his Comprehensive exam.

Title: Dark Matter Halo Density Calibration

Abstract:
In this synthesis, we reviewed the literature on halo density calibration. Several years of research have been conducted to understand dark matter, but it remains a mystery to Cosmologists. Despite many efforts, there still remain significant gaps in the literature. The ultimate goal is to reconcile dark matter theories (which include fitting functions and simulations) with observations. This will help us obtain an accurate and thorough understanding of the dark matter halo density profiles, which will in turn help us understand the formation of cosmic structure. New halo properties have been detected in simulations and observations but are still poorly understood. Analytic fitting functions such as NFW and Einasto profiles have also been shown to perform poorly under several conditions. We do not know yet if new physics can help us understand the mysterious dark matter but probing dark matter halos remains a good approach. We identified gaps in the literature and suggested solutions to some of them. Specifically, we demonstrated how machine learning can help us obtain more accurate predictions than analytic models and also estimate error bars on these predictions. Finally, we presented a computing artifact on uncertainty quantification.

Background:
BSc. Actuarial Science (University for Development Studies - Ghana)
MSc. Mathematical Sciences (AIMS - Rwanda)
Computing Ph.D., Data Science emphasis (Boise State University)
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Speaker: Wasilij Barsukow, CNRS Bordeaux

Title: Structure preserving numerical methods for conservation laws

Time and Date: 11:00am - 12:00pm on Friday September 2, 2022

Place: Lewis 208 (Wan Conference Room)

Abstract:

Exact solutions to systems of conservation laws in multiple spatial dimensions often possess interesting additional properties which are a consequence of the equations and which can be formulated as PDEs. Examples are the evolution equations of vorticity or angular momentum, involutional constraints, stationary states or singular limits. Usually, the same numerical diffusion which renders a Finite Volume method stable, prevents it from preserving any of those additional properties. I will show strategies how to modify the numerical diffusion in order to obtain vorticity preserving and low Mach number compliant methods. This enables the numerical methods to capture essential properties of the equations without excessive grid refinement.

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Hello everyone,

AWM is now accepting applications for poster presentations at the AWM Workshop happening at the 2023 SIAM Conference on Optimization in Seattle, May 31 --June 3, 2023. The applications are accepted via mathprograms at:

https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1325

To give a bit more context, this AWM-SIAM workshop will consist of two research minisymposia focused on Inverse Problems organized by Prof. Chrysoula Tsogka (UC Merced) and myself, a Poster Session (see info at the link posted above), and an informational minisymposium directed at starting a career. For more information, please see:

https://awm-math.org/meetings/awm-siam/

Please spread the word! Thanks in advance!

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Hello everyone,
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) BSU Section is pleased to invite you to a scheduled meeting every after two weeks on Wednesdays to discuss chapter activities and events. Feel free to invite anyone to join the chapter as there is much to explore in this upcoming academic year.

Officers:
President - Brian Kyanjo
Vice President - Yao Gahounzo
Finance - Kachinga J Silwimba
Coordinator - Titus Nde Nyarko
Secretary - Bourgeious Gadjagboui

Mentors:
Prof . Grady Wright
Prof. Michal Kopera

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When
Every 2 weeks from 3pm to 4pm on Wednesday (Mountain Time - Boise)

Incase you miss, chapter details will be posted on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxV4akO64IMhpXYz5ZOzF3Q

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