A team of UWindsor researchers, including civil engineering professor Edwin Tam, is exploring how municipalities can improve their resiliency to respond to and recover from pandemic scenarios.
A team of UWindsor researchers is exploring how municipalities can improve their resiliency to respond to and recover from pandemic scenarios.
A UWindsor research team led by engineering professor Edwin Tam is studying what makes some municipalities able to withstand a pandemic like COVID-19 and return to normalcy faster than others.
A UWindsor team is researching what makes some municipalities able to withstand a pandemic like COVID-19 and return to normalcy faster than others.
Math professor Myron Hlynka was one of two faculty members to receive the alumni teaching award during Spring Convocation.
The alumni association honoured two professors during Spring Convocation for their contributions to teaching.
An info session Thursday will discuss actuarial mathematics.
It takes a brave student to write the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, says math and stats professor Myron Hlynka.
“The questions are extremely difficult and grading is strict,” he says. “The total number of points possible is 120. Typically, the median score is zero.”
A courageous group of 17 UWindsor undergraduate students—most, but not all, math majors—gathered Saturday to join an estimated 4,000 competitors across North America in writing the test, offered annually since 1938 by the Mathematical Association of America.
There’s a difference between math and baking, says Kevin St. Denis: “Math is easier.”
The third-year mathematics major prepared a couple of pies in celebration of Pi Day, Wednesday in Erie Hall.
“It’s just some premade crust and I poured in two cans of filling – cherry and blueberry,” St. Denis said. “I tried to shape them like the letter R because I was going for two pie R.”
Mathematics and statistics professor Myron Hlynka is one of the experts consulted by Macleans magazine for an article entitled “The end of the wait for the elevator: Science and industrial design join together to try to make elevators more efficient.”
He praises “destination-oriented dispatching,” a system which assigns users to elevators depending on their desired final stops.
“It’s fascinating,” says Dr. Hlynka. “It’s almost like preprocessing.”
