Tag: Halmos College of Arts and Sciences

Halmos Graduate Student First Author on Bioluminescent Paper

During October, MS alumna Lindsay Freed was lead author in a peer reviewed paper entitled “Characterization of the Microbiome and Bioluminescent Symbionts Across Life Stages of Ceratioid Anglerfishes of the Gulf of Mexico.” (FEMS-Microbiology Ecology 95 (10) October 2019, fiz146). This work began with her Master’s thesis research on anglerfish bacterial characterizations back in 2015 when the DEEPEND Consortium was just getting started. This study shows how Lindsay used 16S gene analyses to differentiate microbial types across different parts of the fish body (gills, fins, and lures) and the seawater. The results indicate for the first time that lures hold a very homogeneous population of bacteria that led to more in-depth genomics research collaborations between DEEPEND and Cornell University, led by Assistant Professor Tory Hendry. It also showed that the lures of adult anglerfish hold a homogeneous population of bacteria belonging to the genus Enterovibrio in the Vibrio group, common among marine bacteria.

Ms. Freed worked in the genomics lab lead by Halmos Faculty Jose Lopez, Ph.D.

Freed, LL., Easson, C., Baker, LJ., Fenolio, D., Blackwelder, P., Khan, Y., Sutton, TT., Hendry, TT., Lopez,  JV. Characterization of the Microbiome and Bioluminescent Symbionts Across Life Stages of Ceratioid Anglerfishes of the Gulf of Mexico. FEMS-Microbiology Ecology. 95 (10) October 2019, fiz146,  https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz146

Halmos College Presents Math Symposium on Standard Copulas, Nov. 7

On Thursday, November 7, at 12:25 p.m. Dragan Radulovic, Ph.D. will present his lecture entitled, “How good are standard copulas anyway?” in Parker Building Room 338. Dr. Radulovic is a professor at Florida Atlantic University.

His lecture will raise a question: How good are standard copulas in capturing the dependency structure? To this end we will offer a series of simulated/numerical examples demonstrating that, more often than not, standard model copulas do not capture the underlying dependency structure. We believe that copula models, unlike other statistical tools, are too readily accepted by practitioners. Rigorous, goodness-of-fit tests are commonly replaced by off-hand statements like: “it works well”. To this end, the second part of the talk offers a theoretical result, an umbrella type theorem tailored for creating numerous Goodness of Fit tests for copulas.

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 338. For more information about the math colloquium series, please contact mathematics faculty member Jing Chen, Ph.D. (jchen1@nova.edu) or Evan Haskell, Ph.D. (haskell@nova.edu).

 

Halmos Professor Delivers Keynote Lecture at First International Symposium on Computer Science, Digital Economy and Intelligent Systems

From October 4-6, 2019, Halmos College Professor/Assistant Dean Matthew He, Ph.D.  delivered a keynote lecture at the First International Symposium on Computer Science, Digital Economy and Intelligent Systems (CSDEIS2019, in Moscow, Russia. His lecture titled “Digital Transformation of Higher Education vis Computing”.

Dr. He’s lecture covered a history and timeline of educational technology, evolution of technology, expanded interpretation of e-learning, and discussed the better match (“best-fit”) between learning technology and eight different types of learner’s intelligence, and future of educational technology.  The Symposium provides a platform for academic researchers, engineers, and industry professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in the areas of computer science, digital economy and intelligent systems.

The conference was organized jointly by Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Modern Education and Computer Science Press (MECS Press).

Halmos Assistant Dean Presents Keynote Lecture in Moscow

From October 1-3, 2019, Halmos College Professor/Assistant Dean Matthew He, Ph.D. presented a keynote lecture at the Third International Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, Education (AIMEE2019) in Moscow, Russia. The lecture title was “Symmetry and Asymmetry in Bioinformatics: From Genetic Code to Life”.

Dr. Matthew He’s  lecture traced back to the empty relation/null transformation as the origin of symmetry and asymmetry, and covered symmetrical and asymmetrical characteristics in Bioinformatics at many levels of organization ranging from genetic code, DNA replications, protein building blocks amino acids, individual cells, through organs, to entire body-shapes.

The AIMEE2019 brings together the top researchers from Asian Pacific nations, Russia, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange their research results and address open issues in Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, Education. The conference was organized jointly by Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the “International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science” (RAMECS, Hong Kong).

Halmos College Assistant Dean Co-edits Book for Springer

In October 2019, Springer – International Publisher Science, Technology, Medicine released “Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education II”, co-edited by Halmos assistant dean and professor Matthew He, Ph.D.

This book gathers high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Education Applications (ICCSEEA2019), held in Kiev, Ukraine on 26–27 January 2019, and jointly organized by the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and the International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science. The papers discuss state-of-the-art topics and advances in computer science; neural networks; pattern recognition; engineering techniques; genetic coding systems; deep learning and its medical applications; and knowledge representation and its applications in education.

For information:https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319910079

Halmos College Students, Faculty, and Staff Participate in Beach Cleanup

This fall, Halmos College students, faculty, and staff worked out of two locations to help with the Broward County Beach Cleanup. Over the course of a Saturday morning, the two sites supported by Halmos College were at the Marine Environmental Education Center (MEEC) and the Von D. Mizell and Eula Johnson State Park. The students at these locations coordinated volunteers and collected data regarding the amount of trash picked up off their beaches.

Those two sites collected over 1000 pounds of trash, including bicycles, flip flops, balloons, and a lot of cans. To bring awareness to the need for continuing beach clean ups, the not-for-profit group Free Our Seas and Beyond created an art shark full of cans found during the clean-up. It can be seen at the MEEC.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/SeektheMEEC/

Halmos College Department of Biological Sciences Hosts Sciences of Yawning Symposium, Nov. 1

On Friday, November 1st from 3-4 p.m., Andrew Gallup, Ph.D. presented his lecture, “The Surprising Science of Yawning” in Mailman Auditorium, Mailman-Hollywood Building.

Dr. Gallup presented on his brain-cooling hypothesis of yawning along with supporting research on humans and other animals.  Dr. Gallup is an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist. His research spans a variety of topics, including contagious behavior and comparative neuroanatomy, brain thermoregulation and vigilance, collective behavior and social cognition, aggression and sexual conflict, the evolution of cooperation, winner and loser effects, biomarkers of Darwinian fitness, and the effects of neuromodulation on adaptive responses.

Dr. Gallup received his bachelor’s in Psychology from The State University of New York at Albany. He received his PhD in Biological Sciences from Binghamton University under the mentorship of Dr. David Sloan Wilson. He went on to complete a postdoc at Princeton University in the collective behavior lab lead by Iain Couzin (now Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour). Dr. Gallup is currently a professor of Psychology at The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as the director of the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) Lab at SUNY Poly. Dr. Gallup is a Fellow of The Psychonomic Society, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Gallup is a rising star having already published over 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His research has been of broad general interest, covered by large media outlets including National Geographic, Scientific American, and The New York Times.

Math Colloquium Series looks Algebraic Frames and Ultrafilters, Nov. 1

On Friday, November 1, at 12:05pm in Parker 338, Florida Atlantic University Instructor Papiya Bhattacharjee, Ph.D. presented her lecture on Algebraic Frames and Ultrafilters. A frame, also known as pointfree topology, is a complete lattice that satisfies a strong distributive property, known as the ‘frame law’.  Originally, the study of frames began as studying topological spaces without points, hence the name pointfree topology.

Due to this connection, different topological concepts can be generalized to frames, for example, compactness. In the first part of the talk she will explain the basic notions of frames and their connection with topology.

It turns out that we can find frame structure in other categories than topological spaces. For example, given a commutative ring R with identity, the lattice of radical ideals of R, Rad(R), is a frame.  As a result, concepts from ring structure can also be generalized to frames, for example, primes and minimal primes, annihilators, etc.  She discussed some of these concepts in the language of frame theory.

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 301. For more information about the math colloquium series, please contact mathematics faculty member Jing Chen, Ph.D. (jchen1@nova.edu) or Evan Haskell, Ph.D. (haskell@nova.edu).

Halmos Student Presents at ACS Meeting in Savannah, GA

In October 2019, Halmos biology major Minhal Khoja was invited to present at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Savannah, Georgia. The talk was entitled “CUREs Beyond the Classroom: a student’s perspective.” CURE stands for Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences. Ms. Khoja’s talk was part of the meeting’s CURE Chemistry Research in the Lab session which was organized by her supervisor and Halmos faculty member Arthur Sikora, Ph.D.

The research project was funded by Dr. Sikora’s PFRDG grant and Ms. Khoja’s travel was supported by the SGA and a scholarship from the Halmos College Department of Biological Sciences.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is the world’s largest scientific society and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information. A nonprofit organization, chartered by Congress, ACS is at the forefront of the evolving worldwide chemical enterprise and the premier professional home for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions around the globe.

For more information:https://www.sermacs2019.org/

Joshua Feingold Named Halmos College’s Professor of the Year

At the 19th Annual Faculty Reception, faculty member Joshua Feingold, Ph.D. received Halmos College’s award for Professor of the Year. This award is given by the Faculty Advisory Council (FAC). Dr. Feingold was presented with the award by NSU President George Hanbury, Ph.D., Interim Provost Ronald Chenail, Ph.D., and Halmos College Dean Richard Dodge, Ph.D.

The purpose of the FAC is to help further the mission of Nova Southeastern University by advising the administration of NSU about matters for the improvement of university programs and services. The primary goal of the council is to enhance, protect, and maintain the intellectual integrity of the university through its academic programs.

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