UNLV repeated their first place win in racquetball for Corporate Challenge. Congratulations to the team! Erica Marti (Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction) - 1st place, women's singles; Venki Muthukumar (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Sid Raich (Social and Behavioral Health) - 1st place, men's doubles; Adam Koebke (…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented the paper, "Affinity Between Mathematics and Hinduism," at the annual meeting of American Academy of Religion/Western Region, a multidisciplinary conference. The meeting was held at UNLV on March 15-17, 2024. The paper is available upon request.

Ali Balooch and Zhijian Wu (both Mathematical Sciences) had a peer-reviewed article published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. Abstract: "Applications and findings involving the norm of the weighted Dirichlet space D_alpha are steadily being discovered. There are notable characterizations of D_alpha through…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) and team from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, recently had their article, "Analyzing aberrant DNA methylation in Colorectal cancer uncovered intangible heterogeneity of gene effects in the survival time of patients," accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. The study employs advanced…

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) gave a talk titled, "Who Cares About Bhaskar?," was the title of the online talk given on Oct. 18 under the aegis of the 7th annual Aryabhatt Lecture Series. It was organized by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (India).  

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) and his Ph.D. student, Li Zhu, published a paper, "Analysis and Application of Two Novel Finite Element Methods for Solving Ziolkowski’s PML Model in the Integro-Differential Form," in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (the top journal in Computational Mathematics). They also published "A new time-domain finite…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) had his paper titled "Sparse Estimation in Finite Mixture of Accelerated Failure Time and Mixture of Regression Models with R Package fmrs" accepted by "The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science". The paper focuses on a novel Machine and Statistical learning method for high-dimensional data…

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) and colleagues A. Khalili, M. Asgharian, both of McGill University, and S. Lin (Ohio State University) co-authored an article titled "Sparse estimation in semi-parametric finite mixture of varying coefficient regression models". The paper introduces an unsupervised learning and feature selection methods…

Jorge Reyes (Mathematical Sciences) published a micro article titled, "Examples of identities and inequalities for the nonlinear term in the Navier–Stokes equation," in the Journal Examples and Counterexamples.

Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) has just published, both in the U.S. and India, the second volume of the Darts on History of Mathematics; the first volume was published in 2014. Darts are humanistic angles of analysis, including History, Political Systems, Sociology, Religions. The book contains 78 reflections (different from…

Monika Neda and Jorge Reyes (both Mathematical Sciences) co-authored a publication with colleagues Leo Rebholz (Clemson), Sean Ingimarson (Clemson), and An Vu (U of Houston) titled, "Improved long time accuracy for projection methods for Navier-Stokes equations using EMAC formulation," in the International Journal of Numerical Analysis &…

Pejmon Sadri (Mathematical Sciences) recently published a paper titled, "Lessons From Gathering of Crop Production Statistics in India: A Comparison of Methods Used Before and After the Bengal Famine of 1943 – 1944," in the Journal of Applied Statistics and Machine Learning.