News Archives from the College of Sciences
Current Graduate Students
Michael BareianGraduate Research AssistantEmail: mbareian20[at]yahoo.comResearch Interests: Galaxy Formation and EvolutionThesis Advisor: Dr. Kate RubinHobbies: Basketball, Video Games Mike EngesserTeaching AssociateEmail:...
REU summer math projects
In summer 2017, SDSU hosted another NSF-funded research experience for undergraduate students coordinated by program director Vadim Ponomarenko. The students came from all over the country to work at SDSU for eight weeks on mathematics problems. This summer, they...
Welcome new ULM students
SDSU welcomes three new graduate students to the Math Dept from Ulm, Germany. Ludwig Siegert, Marc Schneble, and Maximillian Autenrieth are on campus as foreign exchange students working on their master’s degree in mathematics. Ludwig, Marc and Max...
Colloquium Friday Nov 3 at 2 pm: “It’s Maps All the Way Up (and Down)”
Colloquium: It’s Maps All the Way Up (and Down) Speaker: Prof. Martin Sereno, SDSU MRI Imaging Center Time: 2:00 p.m., Friday, November 3 (refreshments served at 1:45 p.m.) Place: P-148 Abstract: Topological maps of receptor sheets have long been known to...
Rich Levine named JSM Program Chair
Rich Levine has been selected to serve as the Program Chair of the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in 2019. JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. It is also one of the broadest statistics meetings, covering methodology, theory and...
Antonio Palacios publishes book
Antonio Palacios and Visarath In of SPAWAR have just published a book in Springer’s Complexity Series, Symmetry in Complex Network Systems: Connecting Equivariant Bifurcation Theory with Engineering Applications. Dr. Palacios has been collaborating with SPAWAR...
Ricardo teaches in Greece
Professor Carretero taught an intensive summer course on Nonlinear Waves: Theory, Applications and Computation in Kavala, Greece during summer 2017. The course, offered through the Democritus University of Thrace, took place in the picturesque town of Kavala, in ...
Welcome new faculty: Dr. Naveen Vaidya
The Department welcomes a new faculty member in Biomathematics, Naveen Vaidya. Naveen comes to us from the University of Missouri –Kansas City. Before joining UMKC, he had four years of postdoctoral research experience in Mathematical Biology working with Dr....
Chris Rasmussen receives Monty Award
Chris Rasmussen receives the 2017 College of Science’s Outstanding Faculty Contributions Award, also known as the Faculty Montys. Chris is an international leader in mathematics education research. He has led the research community to focus on the...
Grand Canyon – 2017
The Geology 200 (Geologic Inquiry) and Historical Geology classes spent two and half days in the Grand Canyon. Students walked along the trail of time, studied the fossils in the Kaibab Formation and enjoyed two opportunities to get below the rim. On one...
Dave Kimbrough gives talk at Mesa College
The Great Dying Mesa College’s School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences’ STEM lecture series: Dr. Kimbrough will talk about his recent work in Argentina on large volume rhyolitic volcanic eruptions and their possible contribution to...
Recent Publications
2 new publications by Dr. Vic Camp International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior Camp, V. E., Reidel, S.P., Ross, M.E., Brown, R.J., and Self, S., August, 2017, Fieldtrip guide to the vents, dikes, stratigraphy and structure of...
SDSU Computer Science Department 2018 Faculty Position Advertisement
San Diego State University College of Sciences Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Full Time, Tenure Track) The Department of Computer Science is seeking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in machine...
Chevron Recruiting
September 12-13th, 2017 Recruiter: Jason Parizek EARTH SCIENCE AT CHEVRON:Chevron is recruiting Geologist-Interns and Geophysicist-Interns located in: · Bakersfield, California...
Colloquium Friday Sept 15, 2017: Prof. Ken Nollett “Nuclear collisions from the ground up“
Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Nollett, Physics Department, SDSU Topic: “Nuclear collisions from the ground up“ Time: 2:00 p.m., Friday, September 15th (refreshments served at 1:45 p.m.) Place: P-148 Abstract: Nucleons...
Thesis Defense – Matt Dorsey MS
Evidence of Na- and Mg-rich Hydrothermal Brine Circulation Driving Elemental Mass Redistribution in an Active Fault Zone: A Case Study of the Borrego Fault Zone, northern Baja California, Mexico Matt Dorsey Advisor: Dr. Tom Rockwell Friday September 15th, 2017 CSL 422...
ExxonMobil recruiting
San Diego State UniversityDepartment of Geological Sciences September 5-7, 2017Recruiter: Doug MillerExxonMobil Geoscience Applicants are required to fill out an online application and post a copy of their resume on www.exxonmobil.com/apply one week prior to...
Thesis Defense – Qian Yao (PhD)
Dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Sources on Rough Faults Qian Yao PhD Candidate, Geophysics Advisor: Dr. Steve Day Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 CSL 422 – noon Abstract Surface roughness is a universal characteristic of natural faults. Roughness can be...