Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Who We Are
The Dartmouth SIAM chapter is our local student-run chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the leading international society promoting applied mathematics research in academia and industry. Our local chapter was established in Winter of 2012 and unites undergraduate and graduate students of all majors and disciplines with the common goal of advancing and supporting applied mathematics on campus, and in future careers. We are an organization open to all interested students, with no membership dues or fees, and as a member of our chapter, you can obtain a free membership of SIAM.
Contact
Society.for.Industrial.and.Applied.Mathematics@dartmouth.edu
Friday, April 13, 2018, 5.00 PM - 7.00 PM
Dartmouth Grad Lounge, 4 Currier Place, Hanover. (next to the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network)
We invite undergraduate students to come and talk to graduate students about STEM-related research, career paths, internships, clubs and other activities over dinner.
Dinner will be provided. Please sign up at https://goo.gl/forms/HlN2w3o4GXrHveoC2.
Tuesday Feb 6, 2018, 4.30 PM to 5.30 PM, Haldeman 125
RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/Lv6oc2MpbO6azUk63. Pizza will be served.
Data scientists come from all different backgrounds and work in many different domains, from Bio to Finance to Tech. Come meet four local data scientists and learn from them what a career in data science looks like and how you can start one. After the moderated panel will be time for questions, followed by a chance to network with participants and other attendees. Moderated by: Victor Churchill, Vice-President in Academic Relations, Graduate Student in Department of Mathematics. He has presented research at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (2018, Italy).
Panelists:
Dr. Saeed Hassanpour, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel.
• Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Informatics at Stanford, MMath in Computer Science at University of Waterloo, BS in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Iran.
• Research: distill meaning from biomedical data to improve medical conditions and health care.
Dr. James O' Malley, Professor of Biomedical Data Science at The Dartmouth Institute
• Education: PhD in Statistics from the University of Canterbury, M.S. in Applied Statistics from Purdue
• Research: statistical methodology and various areas of medicine and health care, part of the Dartmouth Interdisciplinary Network Research Group.
• Former Chair of the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2008 and Co-chair of the 2011 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics
Dr. Ramesh Yapalparvi, Senior Data Scientist at DHMC.
• Education: Ph.D. in Applied Math at UNH Manchester, BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, India
• Previously a scientist at White River Technologies and has worked at John Hancock Financial Services (life insurance underwriting).
James L. Adams, Data and Visualization Librarian at Dartmouth College
• Education: M.S. in Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute, B.A. in Music and English Language and Literature from Boston College
• Worked as an Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of Oklahoma.
Thursday Nov 2, 2017, 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM, Kemeny Hall 105
An introduction to evolutionary game theory, social networks, and how they can explain human and animal social behavior.
Thursday May 12, 2016, 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM, Kemeny 108
It is now common knowledge that we live in an era of "Big Data". Science, engineering, technology, and even the routine activities of modern life are producing increasingly large data streams, at petabyte or exabyte scales. At these scales, what used to be routine algorithmic tasks for "small data"---such as estimating basic statistics of a population or understanding the connectivity structure of a graph---may now be challenging problems, with new theoretical principles needed to understand and solve them. Most of my work focuses on building such theoretical principles. One key result, that I shall highlight in this talk, is an inverse-square law that can be summarized as follows. The working memory required for the statistical and graph-theoretic estimation tasks mentioned above need only grow sub-linearly in the input size (enabling efficient processing of big data) but must grow as the inverse square of the estimation error (revealing a fundamental computational limit). Communication games---where two or more players collaborate to compute on a massively-long input distributed amongst them---play a crucial role in establishing such theoretical principles of big data analysis. I shall demonstrate this connection with several examples, and give a brief overview of the mathematics behind the above inverse-square law.
Friday Feb 12, 2015, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Kemeny 108
Most modern computer vision methods employ a strongly supervised learning paradigm that requires training on massive collections of richly-labeled images. These rich labels are provided by either human annotators or auxiliary sensors. Unfortunately, the reliance on time-consuming human labeling or sensory data collection greatly limits the applicability of these methods to new settings or novel domains. I will discuss the idea of eliminating or reducing the need for rich labels by leveraging existing large repositories of weakly-labeled images, i.e., photos annotated only with class labels indicating which objects are present but not their location. This talk reports on joint work with Loris Bazzani, Alessandro Bergamo, Drago Anguelov, Haris Baig.
Wednesday April 29, 2015, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Kemeny 006
For most diseases, strong single-gene effects are the exception, not the rule. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of risk-conferring germline mutations for common cancers, such as lung cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. However, each individual mutation explains only a small fraction of phenotypic variation and is therefore a poor predictor of cancer development. The mutations' biomolecular mechanisms of augmenting cancer risk are also usually poorly understood. I conduct "pathway analysis" to evaluate the joint effects of many mutations in the context of cellular pathway disturbances. In contrast to the conventional study of single mutation-gene-protein influences, this approach captures how overall intracellular functions may be affected by groups of mutations without particular emphasis on any individual mutation. By coupling GWAS results with datasets of tissue-specific protein interactions and pathways, I identify pathways that are statistically enriched with the protein products of genes whose sequence or expression levels are altered by cancer-associated mutations. These derived pathways offer not only greater biological insights into cancer development, but also a more meaningful way to characterize patient risk in the clinic compared to existing gene panels. The two most common subtypes of lung cancer will be used for pathway analysis demonstrations.
6th Nov. 2014, 12:00pm-1:30pm, Kemeny 100C
Drop by anytime to have Boloco and talk with Jane about anything mathematical.
22nd Oct. 2014, 5:00pm-6:00pm, Kemeny 004
Theoretical frameworks for understanding why some pathogens cause virulence in their hosts suggest that pathogens evolve to maximize their reproductive number, a quantity inextricably linked to pathogen growth within the host. Since pathogen-induced mortality is an unavoidable consequence of increased pathogen growth and transmission, a trade-off typically emerges, leading to maximized fitness at an intermediate virulence. While these frameworks are a useful starting point to think about transmission-virulence tradeoffs, they implicitly assume that each pathogen is associated with only a single virulence phenotype encoded by the genotype and need to be re-evaluated in the context of pathogens that exhibit variable phenotypes in identical hosts, such as the diversity of clinical syndromes observed in malaria infections. We develop a theoretical model to test whether a single genotype that gives rise to multiple disease phenotypes can account for the existence of heterogeneous disease outcomes. We find that variation in gene-specific virulence and transmission within a single strain can indeed contribute to its success, expanding regions of coexistence and dominance in competition with a strain having a single optimized virulence. Our results further demonstrate that expressing multiple virulence phenotypes, even when one is highly virulent, can be advantageous for a strain.