Department Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, October 31, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

Mathematics for Sustainability   Dr. Jacob Duncan Winona State University

Some of the biggest challenges facing humanity today stem from issues surrounding environmental degradation and social injustice. This talk focuses on the WSU course called Mathematics for Sustainability wherein students use mathematical concepts to solve real-world problems pertaining to environmental and social sustainability.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, October 10, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

Predicting Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease with Machine Learning Models Stacey Miertschin
This past summer, I participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates at UNC-Greensboro. I worked on a team project exploring a data-driven approach to predicting diabetes and cardiovascular disease, evaluating performance characteristics of different machine learning models.
Match Making at Anthem Dental   Mariah Quam
	This summer I was a part of Anthem Dental's first ever internship program, working as a Business Analytics Project Intern within the Data Analytics team. My main project consisted of making a tool to get more accurate matches when comparing request for proposals (RFPs) against the company’s database.

Fall Picnic

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, October 3, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

Plowing through the Data at Deere Reagan Buske
This past summer I worked as an intern at John Deere on the aftermarket analytics team. My main project was to build a multi-label classification model that predicts the work-type category. I will be talking about what I learned during my internship.
Data Quality Internship at Ediom   Akif Khan
	Ediom is a start-up company in Las Vegas that uses data to uncover valuable insights in the health-care industry. Working as a Data Quality Analyst Intern on the Market-Pulse team, I gathered unstructured data on medical equipment and brought it to a structured format in their local database, using various analytical tools to make my work more efficient.

SCUDEM III 2018 Modeling Challenge

SCUDEM III 2018 MODELING CHALLENGE

 Competition Saturday – 27 October 2018 

Registration: 1 Aug – 5 Oct  2018 – see simiode.org/scudem.

SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equation Modeling

Form a team and challenge yourselves in a friendly community to learn and show your skills in this unique competition for modeling with differential equations! Registration for teams of three high school or undergraduate students open until October 5, 2018.

Teams and coaches gather Saturday 27 October 2018 at local sites around the United States and beyond to present their findings at a day for presentation, networking, learning, faculty development, and awards – Outstanding, Meritorious, and Successful. For students there is a fun Math Bowl.

Challenge is the word we use for we believe this is truly a growth experience in modeling. Join us and grow!

Complete details and past results at simiode.org/scudem

Local WSU Contact:  Jacob.Duncan@winona.edu

Department Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, September 26, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

A Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics   Dr. April Kerby Winona State University

Attitudes toward statistics play an important role in a student’s statistics achievement and retention. In 2016, the Research on Statistics Attitudes workgroup began development of new instruments to measure attitudes towards statistics. This talk will discuss the resulting Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (SOMAS), including the theoretical framework for the surveys based on Expectancy-Value Theory as well as the item development, subject-matter-expert review, pilot data collection, and exploratory factor analysis results.

Dr. Debnath Awarded WSU's Distinguished Faculty & Staff Award

Winona State University recently announced Dr. Joyati Debnath as the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Faculty and Staff Award.

Debnath is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at WSU, where she has taught since 1989. She received her B.S. in pure mathematics and her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Iowa State University. She has received numerous honors and awards, including Best Teaching Award from Iowa State University (1987), Outstanding Woman of Education Award (1993), and Who’s Who Among American Teachers (1996). Prior to joining WSU, Debnath was a faculty member of the Mathematics and Computer Systems Department at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

A longtime advocate and mentor for female mathematicians, Debnath has led her career with a student-focused approach to her work. She was nominated for this award by a former student.

Debnath has research interests in the areas of integral transform theory and more recently in matrices and graph theory. She is an author/co-author of over 50 publications in numerous peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has made numerous research presentations at national and international conferences in mathematics and computer science.

Debnath is the recipient of many grants, including the National Science Foundation Instructional Laboratory Improvement grant, Center of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics grant and grants for WSU undergraduate student research.

She has served as a faculty director of the WSU Freshman Orientation Program and on numerous university committees, and has coordinated WSU’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics for several years.

In addition to her role and responsibilities at WSU, Debnath has been very involved in the Winona community, with active roles with the YMCA, Parents of the Winona Area Catholic Schools Association and Habitat for Humanity. She is also a frequent judge of research paper presentations at the annual Minnesota State Science Fair.

She resides in Winona and has one son, Shubham, who recently completed his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and resides in Miami.

The Winona State University Alumni Society annually recognizes alumni, faculty, staff and community members for their outstanding commitment to the university, its mission and to improving our world. For more information, visit http://www.winona.edu/alumni/awards.asp.

(source: Winona Daily News)