Auburn statistician receives award from the Office of Naval Research to develop algorithms to help optimize naval navigation

Elvan Ceyhan, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is the recipient of an award sponsored by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the project Adversarial Risk Analysis for Optimal Obstacle Evasion. The project, a collaboration with David Banks of Duke University, received an award of $358,000 with Auburn receiving $214,000 and Duke receiving $144,000.

The overall goal of the research project is to create procedures that avoid adversarial threats for continuous paths such as ships navigating the ocean. It will result in algorithms and methodology in Adversarial Risk Analysis (ARA).

“Imagine a grid over the ocean with traversable edges and diagonals,” said Ceyhan. “This network grid superimposed on the ocean’s surface helps us to unlock approximate paths for naval ships to safely navigate.”

COSAM students enrolled in Honors College increases 20 percent over past four academic years

Tiffany Sippial, director of the Honors College at Auburn University, recently shared statistics that highlighted the current total number of Honors College students in each college, the percentage change over the last four academic years, and data relative to the Fall 2022 incoming Honors class.

Recent Auburn University graduate receives prestigious Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship

Auburn University graduate Jordan Beam has received a Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship, which will be applied toward her first year of medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine.

A native of Hoover, Alabama, Beam was a spring 2022 Auburn Honors College graduate with a degree in biomedical sciences in the College of Sciences and Mathematics, or COSAM, and a minor in Spanish in the College of Liberal Arts.

Student Research Spotlight - Ali Taylor-Patwardhan

In this Student Research Spotlight, learn more about Ali Taylor-Patwardhan, who won first place in the poster category, University-Wide Undergraduate Student Winners in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, during the 2022 Auburn Research: Student Symposium. Her project was titled “The Development of Novel, Rechargeable N-Halamine Polymer Blends for Use in Food Processing Conveyor Belts.”

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