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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Bori Mazzag
Mathematics
Dr. Bori Mazzag and Dr. Julie Glass, CSU East Bay, co-organized a series of CSU-wide talks in January as part of the year-long Math Council Colloquium series. The theme of the January talks was "Peer Instruction". We aimed to connect faculty and staff across the CSU who work on providing academic support services to students in mathematics and statistics courses. In addition to the talks, we collected some information on the structure of the tutoring and peer instruction on the various campuses. CSU campuses were broadly represented in the series, including speakers from Humboldt State University's Learning Center.
Peter Goetz, Andrew Conner
Mathematics
Published the article "Classification, Koszulity and Artin-Schelter regularity of certain graded twisted tensor products" in the Journal of Noncommutative Geometry, DOI: 10.4171/JNCG/395
Cianna Balderama, Daisy Montalvo, Ashley Tran, Ana Sammel, Emma Villegas, Bridget Opperman, Makani Bright, Hunter Kahn, Soeon Park, Tanner Hooven,  Kevin Chung, Diego Rodriguez Moreno 
Mathematics
Twelve CNRS students competed in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling-- an annual four day intensive competition. Teams of 3 worked intensely to apply mathematics to a real world problem. Students worked on mathematical models applied to competing populations of fungi, musical influence, and optimizing our nation's delivery of higher education. The contest happened virtually due to the pandemic.
Kamila Larripa
Mathematics
Kamila Larripa and co-authors had their paper accepted to the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The paper is entitled "Bifurcation and sensitivity analysis reveal key drivers of multistability in a model of macrophage polarization" and investigates how a specific immune cell responds to cytokine signals.
Peter Goetz
Mathematics
Recently published the single-authored paper "Graded Coherence of Certain Extensions of Graded Algebras" in Communications in Algebra, June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2020.1775844
The paper studies when the coherence property is inherited by certain extensions of algebras.
Bori Mazzag, Kamila Larripa, Viri Macias, Megan Johnson, Ana Sammel and Emma Villegas
Mathematics
Bori Mazzag and Kamila Larripa each received a CSU PUMP grant to mentor students in mathematical research for the 2020/2021 academic year. Mazzag will investigate calcium dynamics using differential equations and graph theory with Viri Macias and Megan Johnson, and Larripa will model the interaction between Sars-CoV-2 and the host's immune system, working with Ana Sammel and Emma Villegas.
Steven Railsback, Bret Harvey
Mathematics
Steven Railsback (adjunct faculty, Mathematics) and Bret Harvey (adjunct, Fisheries Biology) just published the book "Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals", volume 63 in the prestigious Princeton Monographs in Population Biology series. The book presents a new kind of theory for adaptive behavior of individual organisms (e.g., when and where to forage, considering both growth and predation risk) that works in complex individual-based population models. The book builds on HSU's long tradition in individual-based ecological modeling. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691195285/modeling-populations-of-adaptive-individuals
Kamila Larripa
Mathematics
Kamila Larripa coauthored the paper "A Tutorial Review of Mathematical Techniques for Quantifying Tumor Heterogeneity" which was accepted for publication. The work considers intra-tumor and inter-patient heterogeneity and mathematical models for precision medicine. It will appear in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
Charlin Duff, Skye Gibney, Eric Malekos
Mathematics
Charlin Duff, Skye Gibney and Eric Malekos received an Honorable Mention for their participation in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Their project used mathematical modeling to make policy suggestions with the goal of mitigating the detrimental effect of plastic waste on the environment.
Jahaira Valencia , Berlin Del Aguila, Griffin Kowash, Sam Mendez, Melanie Tapia, Johnny Rasnic, Daisy D. Montalvo , Edwin Espinoza, Julia Vang, Gynell Higby, Joshua Maldonado, Nicole Perry, Charlin Duff, Eric Malekos, Skye Gibney, Ryan Myers, Emily Ord, Alyssa Johnson, Cade Freels, Sonnet Antio, Ana Sammel, Christina Bewley, Mariah Graham, and Thomas Boerne
Mathematics
HSU student participants in this year’s international Mathematical Contest in Modeling were Jahaira Valencia , Berlin Del Aguila, Griffin Kowash, Sam Mendez, Melanie Tapia, Johnny Rasnic, Daisy D. Montalvo , Edwin Espinoza, Julia Vang, Gynell Higby, Joshua Maldonado, Nicole Perry, Charlin Duff, Eric Malekos, Skye Gibney, Ryan Myers, Emily Ord, Alyssa Johnson, Cade Freels, Sonnet Antio, Ana Sammel, Christina Bewley, Mariah Graham, and Thomas Boerne. The contest challenges teams to clarify and analyze a real-world open-ended problem and propose a solution within a 99 hour time frame.