Accomplishments: Department of Mathematical Sciences

Mohammed Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) recently coauthored a paper, "On Nonlinear Distributed Order Fractional Differential Equations for Star-Sun Graphs Clique Polynomials," in Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (founded in 1880). 
Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) recently coauthored two papers, "Developing and analyzing a DG method for modeling of metasurfaces" and "A novel finite element method for simulating surface plasmon polaritons on complex graphene sheets," in Journal of Computational Physics (3.8 Impact Factor), one of the very top journals in Computational鈥
Mohammed K A Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has been included in the 2025 Elsevier鈥揝tanford list of the world鈥檚 top 2% scientists in the fields of General Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. The full dataset can be accessed at the Elsevier Digital Commons Data webpage. For your convenience, my name can be found in the鈥
On Aug. 12, Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) gave an hour-long talk (on Google Meet) on the Importance of American Ph.D. in Mathematics to over 100 students in the Division of Science of Central University of Assam, Tezpur (India), established in 1994.
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented an audio presentation of a paper, "Rebuilding of Dismantled Math Communities," at the annual MathFest of the Mathematical Association of America, held at Sacramento, California, on Aug. 6-9, 2025.
Cynthia Tochukwu Nnolum (Mathematical Sciences) published a research article titled "Dynamics of Solutions to a Multi-patch Epidemic Model with a Saturation Incidence Mechanism," in the Journal of Mathematical Biology.  The paper analyzed the behavior of disease dynamics across multiple interconnected patches (regions), incorporating a鈥
Congratulations to the 性视界传媒 racquetball team who competed in Corporate Challenge on Thursday, April 10. They won 1st overall and 10 points for 性视界传媒. Competitors were Adam Koebke (Mathematics) who won gold in men's singles, Venki Muthukumar (Electrical Engineering) and Sai Parsa (Computer Science) who won gold in men's doubles, and Erica Marti鈥
Kingsley Ukandu Rachidi Salako (Mathematical Sciences) presented part of his joint work with advisor Rachidi Salako. The paper, titled 鈥淣ew Spatial Patterns of Endemic Equilibria Set in SIS Epidemic Model: Effects of Susceptible Population Moment,鈥 was presented at the AMS Sectional Meeting hosted by the University of Kansas in Lawrence.鈥
Satish C. Bhatnagar (Mathematical Sciences) presented a paper, "Primes and Pyramids: A Pedagogical Perspective," at the annual meeting of the South Eastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America on March 1, 2025. 
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work), Chih-Hsiang Ho (Mathematical Sciences), Daria J. Kuss (Nottingham Trent University), and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) recently published an article, 鈥淭he temporal stability of problematic gaming and gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis,鈥 in the journal Addictive Behaviors Reports鈥
Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) published a paper titled, "Data-Driven Identification of Early Cancer-Associated Genes via Penalized Trans-Dimensional Hidden Markov Models," in Biomolecules Journal. The paper proposes a new protocol and a case study for analyzing cancer epigenetic data. The proposed methodology is based on two of his鈥
Guangyu Zhao (Mathematical Sciences) published a research paper, "Sturm comparison for nonlocal equations," in Sao Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences.