Mathematical and Statistical Sciences

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Celebrating the Successful Julia Programming Workshop

Sept. 30, 2025

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our Julia Programming Workshop!

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Six Dirichlet Classifiers charts

Publication Achievement: PhD Student Courtney Franzen’s Paper Accepted for Oral Presentation at the Prestigious IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)

Sept. 22, 2025

The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is proud to announce that PhD student Courtney Franzen has had her paper accepted for an oral presentation at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).

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Dr.Emily Speakaman's Attendance at the STOGO.

Faculty Dr. Emily Speakman Attends Stockholm Global Optimization Workshop (STOGO) 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

We are proud to share that Dr. Emily presented her research "On the Convex Hull of the Graph of the Simple Monomial", at the Global Optimization Workshop (STOGO) at Stockholm, Sweden!

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Smoke from Idaho’s Elkhorn fire blankets the Salmon River on July 31, 2023. Photo credit: Brian Maffly.

Wildfires Are Changing the Air We Breathe—Here’s What That Means for Your Health

Sept. 22, 2025

As wildfires grow larger and more frequent across the West, researchers from Colorado, Utah, and California are digging into how smoke affects the air—and our health.

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Picture of the project that works to show that role of water molecules in the toxic plaques, focusing on hydration shells around both native and chemically modified amyloid-beta species.

NIH Awards $467,000 Grant to Study Internal Water Dynamics in Alzheimer's Disease

Sept. 2, 2025

NIH funds $467,000 study led by Vugmeyster and Ostrovsky, investigating hydration shells of amyloid-beta peptides to uncover water’s role in Alzheimer’s plaque formation and progression.

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Dr. Kathryn Hamilton and Dr. Julien Langou present at the 2025 NSF CSSI PI Meeting

Aug. 8, 2025

Good job to these two for representing CU Denver at the NSF CSSI PI meeting!

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CU Denver Shines at CHAOSS Data Science Hackathon 2025

Aug. 8, 2025

This collaborative event brought together curious minds and passionate problem-solvers to explore pressing issues in the open-source ecosystem.

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Josh French (right) receiving the award with a representative from CDHE (left)

Z-Degree Team Wins CO Dept. of Higher Education's 2025 Exceptional Open Educational Resources Project Award

June 26, 2025

The team won the award for its work on creating zero textbook paths for bachelor's of science in mathematics, mathematics minor, and the data science certificate.

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Six Mathematical and Statistical Science Faculty Earn Award from Colorado Department of Higher Education

March 4, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua French (lead), Pamela Whitten, Robert Rostermundt, Yaning Liu, Farhad Pourkamali, and Yongxia Kuang from the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences for being approved for a $63,413 award from the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The following people have won the Mathematics and Data Science Z-degrees...

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Yaning Liu Awarded NIH Grant to Help Detect and Monitor Alzheimer's Disease

Feb. 24, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Yaning Liu for being coPI on NIH Grant Number 1R01AG087163-01A1 entitled "Quantifying the Integrity of Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing in Pathological Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Toward Inexpensive Electroencephalographic Wearable Applications". The award runs from 2024 to 2029, totals $3,691,683. Abstract: Simple single-channel electroencephalography (EEG) sleep recordings contain information...

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