Events & News

Friday, April 16, 2026, 8am (Pacific time) on Zoom

Dr. Silvia Fernandez will give the Plenary address at the 41st Víctor Neumann-Lara Colloquium on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Their Applications.

This meeting is being held at UNAM Campus Morelia in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, but Dr. Fernandez will deliver her talk via zoom on Friday, April 16, 2026, 8am (Pacific time)

English title: When Does a Rainbow Occur? A Coloring Problem in the n-Dimensional Cube

Spanish title: ¿Cuándo aparece un arcoíris? Un problema de coloración en el cubo n-dimensional.

Marissa Ackerman

CSUN Mathematics Undergraduate Student

• Selected to participate in the 8-week CERN-ATLAS (European Organization of Nuclear Research-A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) search program during the summer at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland (sponsored by an NSF-HSI grant based at Fresno State). 
• Her talk “ Exploring polyomino motion: classification of amoebic polyominoes” concerning our research was accepted at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). The event will take place April 13-15 in Richmond, Virginia.

Jorge Balbas

Recent Publications, Award, and Media Release

Maria D'Orsogna

• Media recognition for Maria D'Orsogna's work on alcohol-induced deaths in the United States
• Alcohol-induced deaths in the United States across age, race, gender, geography, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Recovery Bulletin. 
• Tony Wong, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou, Maria R. D’Orsogn,a Alcohol-induced deaths in the United States across age, race, gender, geography, and the COVID-19 pandemic, PLoS Global Public Health (2025)
• Yurun Ge, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou, Maria R. D’Orsogna, Efficient portfolio selection through preference aggregation with Quicksort and the Bradley–Terry model, Journal of Computational Science (2025)
• United States Army award Identifying drivers of discontent, advancing social cohesion, and promoting resilient decision-making through modeling and data analysis $39,647

Sungjin Kim

Jun Li

Jason Lo