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| Chair, professor of mathematics:
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| Home Page: http://www.math.wustl.edu/
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The mathematics program is versatile and broad and provides opportunity to explore the major areas of the discipline. Majors select a course of study that emphasizes a specific area of choice. Research and courses abound in mathematical theory (preparation for graduate training in mathematics); probability and statistics (preparation for a career as an actuary or statistician); applications of mathematics; and mathematics education (for secondary school teaching). Researchers in mathematics are highly regarded worldwide in many fields.
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| Lefties have the edge Baseball's southpaws play to their strength (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11980.html) July 7, 2008 --
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| Tracing origins Technique traces origins of disease genes in mixed races (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11482.html) April 8, 2008 -- A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis that includes Alan R. Templeton and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa has developed a technique to detect the ancestry of disease genes in hybrid, or mixed, human populations. The technique, called expected mutual information (EMI), determines how a set of DNA markers is likely to show the ancestral origin of locations on each chromosome. |
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| Algorithm finds the network - for genes or the Internet Math tool finds genetic communities that lead to disease (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11221.html) March 12, 2008 -- Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities. Weixiong Zhang, Ph.D., Washington University associate professor of computer science and engineering and of genetics, along with his Ph.D. student, Jianhua Ruan, has published an algorithm (a recipe of computer instructions) to automatically discover communities and their subtle structures in various networks. |
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| John McCarthy Professor of Mathematics (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/574.html) John McCarthy's field is a kind of analysis called operator theory, which he defines as the study of matrices in infinite dimensional space. It is most directly linked to quantum mechanics, a physics theory involving elementary particles such as the electron that predicts the outcomes of physical ... Expertise: mathematics, pure mathematics, operator theory, quantum mechanics Direct contact: (314) 935-6753 / mccarthy@wustl.edu |
| Steven Krantz Professor and Chair of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/515.html) Steven G. Krantz, Ph.D., is professor and chair of mathematics. He received the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974. Several complex variables; harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometry, interpolation of operators, complex function theory, and real analysis are among his specialties. ... Expertise: harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometry, interpolation of operators, complex function theory Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / tony_fitzpatrick@wustl.edu |
| Victor Wickerhauser Professor of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/518.html) Victor Wickerhauser, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, is an expert in wavelet analysis, a sophisticated kind of harmonic analysis that is integral in analyzing and compressing data — video, sound or photographic, for instance — for a wide range of applications. Expertise: wavelet analysis, harmonic analysis, compressed data, audio data, video data, fingerprinting analysis Direct contact: (314) 935-6771 / victor@wustl.edu |
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