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Dr. Reese's Study Appears in Wall Street Journal What if Babe Ruth played baseball in our time? A study by Shane Reese answered that question: The Bambino would have hit 199 more home runs... Read More >>
IMPACT Begins Its Third Year The National Science Foundation (NSF) was looking for an approach to introducing undergraduates to research and offered a grant to a university who could design a program with this goal in mind. The Mathematics and Statistics departments joined forces and secured the grant for BYU... Read More >>
IMPACT Kicks Off Its Third Year The Interdisciplinary Mentoring Program in Analysis, Computation, and Theory (IMPACT) began its third annual summer “boot camp” program on Monday, June 22. This year proves to be IMPACT’s largest group... Read More >>
Prestigious NSF Career Grant Awarded to Dr. Humpherys Assistant Professor Jeffrey Humpherys, of the Mathematics Department at Brigham Young University, was recently selected to receive the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award... Read More >>
IMPACT: An Innovative Approach The idea of mathematical, statistical, and computaional research doesn't conjure up images of lively, interactive group work. Traditionally, students with expertise in these fields work... Read More >>
Dr. Humpherys' Appearance on Thinking Aloud Dr. Jeffrey Humpherys, a faculty member of IMPACT, recently appeared on the Thinking Aloud radio show on Classical 89 KBYU-FM. Listen in for yourself.... ThinkingAloud.mp3 \| Mirror Download
Dr. Reese's Bayesian Book Now Available Associate statistics professor Shane Reese coauthored the recently released book, Bayesian Reliability, with Michael Hamada, a member of Technical Staff at Los Alamos National Laboratories.... Read More >>
IMPACT Boot Camp: Math Department Begins New Program BYU professor Jeffrey Humpherys recently helped develop a program called IMPACT, along with professors Shane Reese and Dennis Tolley, that prepares undergraduate students to do research that solves problems in a wide variety of fields using advanced math, statistics and computation.... Read More >>
IMPACT Program Summer Boot Camp Begins The Interdisciplinary Mentoring Program in Analysis, Computation, and Theory (IMPACT) began its summer “boot camp” on June 23. The boot camp... Read More >>