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Dr. Veneziani will give a Maymester Course this Summer entitled "Partial Differential Equations in Action: from medical images to numerical simulations". The course will be held from May 14 to 31 and will introduce motivated students to Partial Differential Equations from a practical standpoint. The reference application will be given by cardiovascular physiology and pathology quantitatively analyzed by solving partial differential equations for blood flow and electrocardiology. The course includes lectures from Dr. Samady (CathLab - Emory Hospital), Dr. Tong (Neurosurgery) and visits to the Emory SPECT and MRI facilities (Dr. Garcia and Oshinski). More information can be found here or downloaded here. Dr. Veneziani will also give a course for high-school students in August called "Foundation of Mathematical Modeling".

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The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science would like to congratulate Dr. Tiziano Passerini who has received a 2-years post-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association for a research project on "Blood flow patterns in the infrarenal aorta of subjects with increased peripheral resistances", sponsored by A. Veneziani and Dr. W.R. Taylor (Emory Cardiology). His appointment started January 2013.

December 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for somehow intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns and connections without the use of proofs or modern mathematical tools. A devout Hindu, Ramanujan said that his findings were divine, revealed to him in dreams by the goddess Namagiri.

“I wanted to do something special, in the spirit of Ramanujan, to mark the anniversary,” says Emory mathematician Ken Ono. “It’s fascinating to me to explore his writings and imagine how his brain may have worked. It’s like being a mathematical anthropologist.”

Ono, a number theorist whose work has previously uncovered hidden meanings in the notebooks of Ramanujan, set to work on the 125th-anniversary project with two colleagues and former students: Amanda Folsom, from Yale, and Rob Rhoades, from Stanford.

The result is a formula for mock modular forms that may prove useful to physicists who study black holes. The work, which Ono recently presented at the Ramanujan 125 conference at the University of Florida, also solves one of the greatest puzzles left behind by the enigmatic Indian genius.

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In 2012, 26 recipients from 21 universities were selected based on their areas of science and interest to Yahoo! The Department of Mathematics is proud to announce that Dr. Eugene Agichtein, Dmitry Lagun, Qiaoling Liu, and Denis Savenkov were awarded a research gift and the opportunity to collaborate directly with distinguished Yahoo! scientists and visit Yahoo! Labs.\\ \\ Yahoo!’s Faculty Research and Engagement Program is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. Through this program, academics across the globe collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists via visits to Yahoo!, access to our data and funds for their research.

Professors Raman Parimala and Ken Ono were named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. The Fellows of the AMS program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Congratulations to Parimala and Ken!