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Division Director Update
September 2021
We’re two weeks away from the end of the fiscal year and this is traditionally the time of the year when it gets a little quieter and we can concentrate on getting ready for the new year.
Today, I’d like to introduce our newest program officers. This year, we’ve been fortunate to attract some truly outstanding mathematicians to join DMS. I’ll do this in alphabetical order by Program.
In the Algebra and Number Theory Program, I’d like to introduce Adriana Salerno. Adriana is at Bates College, where she’s a Professor in Mathematics and recently served as the Chair for her department. Adriana’s research interests are in the general area of number theory. She is working on many different projects including exploring number theoretic implications of mirror symmetry; studying properties of multiple zeta values; and exploring p-adic power series and their relation to dynamical systems. Adriana is a member of AWM and SACNAS and she even has her own AMS blog called inclusion/exclusion.
In the Analysis Program, we have two new rotators; the first is Marian Gidea. Marian is coming to us from the Math Department at Yeshiva University. Previously he held appointments at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley (research professor, 2018) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (member, 2011-2013). His research interests are in Dynamical Systems and its applications, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Biology, Financial Mathematics, and Topological Data Analysis.
The second addition is Jeremy Tyson who is currently at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he recently finished a term as the Department Chair for Mathematics. His research interest include analysis in metric spaces, geometric mapping theory, geometric measure theory, fractal geometry, and sub-Riemannian geometry. He is particularly interested in notions of first-order differential calculus and differential geometry in metric measure spaces lacking any a priori Euclidean or Riemannian structure. Jeremy is also a Fellow of the AMS.
In the Computational Mathematics Program, our newest rotator is Stacey Levine. Stacey is a Professor and Chair for the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Duquesne University. Her research interests are in computational mathematics including PDEs, variational methods, theoretical foundations of deep learning, and problems arising out of imaging restoration and fusion. Stacey is also active in SIAM. She served on the Editorial Board for the SIAM Journal of Imaging Science for 6 years, as well as the Program Director for the Activity Group on Imaging.
Last, but not least, in the Statistics Program, I’d like to introduce Yulia Gel. Yulia is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has many research interests among which are the statistical foundation of data science; machine learning; topological and geometric methods in statistics; and topological data analysis. She’s also interested in graph mining; inference for random graphs and complex networks: and uncertainty quantification in network analysis. Yulia is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
I’m delighted to have each and every one of them join us here at NSF.
Finally, I’d like to conclude by thanking everybody who helped out last year on our panels and in reviewing all of the proposals. We deeply appreciate everything you do for us and for the rest of the community.
Juan C. Meza
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