INTEGRATION BEE, 2022

The Department of Mathematics wrapped up another successful Integration Bee organized by our AMS Graduate Student Chapter! Nearly 50 attended this year, including our special guest CSE Dean Ford. About 36 students took part in the competition.

In the undergraduate bracket, the grand integrator was Margaret Hartmann and the runner-up was Grace Osiri. Both Margaret and Grace are Calc II students in Fall, 2022.

In the graduate bracket, the grand integrator was Koksal Karakus and the runner-up was Tony Sheikhnavassi.

Thanks to the judges Dr. Sivaram Narayan and Dr. Ben Salisbury. Special thanks to the department for sponsoring pizza and soda.

Professor Receives Award To Study Wind And Hailstorms

John Allen, Ph.D., received an award from the Disaster Resilience Program to research wind and hailstorms in a warming climate

Allen, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, received an award from the Disaster Resilience Program to fund his project, Quantifying the Risk and Impact of Windstorms and Hailstorms in a Warming Climate. The Disaster Resilience Program is a joint fund through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Science Foundation.

According to Allen, agriculture and infrastructure are vulnerable during windstorms and hailstorms. The storms represent a hazard to electricity distribution and production networks, like wind turbines. This can lead to “localized cascading outages of water supply, automotive fuel, and heating/cooling systems.” Every year for the past decade has had at least 10 billion dollars of losses due to the storms.

Allen’s project will focus on determining the when and where of hail and wind extremes, as well as the long-term impacts of climate change on the storms.

The goal of his project is to develop improved building and infrastructure design practices, codes, and standards by combining his findings with climate change information.