Students in the Master of Mathematical Finance (MMF) program have developed a comprehensive methodology for risk allocation for a complex basket of trading strategies for ARB Trading Group, a Chicago-based proprietary trading company.

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Interprofessional Projects Program (IPRO) team “Efficiency Strategies for Chicago Buildings” was awarded the College of Science Dean’s Choice Award during IPRO Day on April 20.

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Iva Veseli (B.S. BIOL/M.S. CS 5th year) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award to pursue her Ph.D. in the biophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.

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Five Illinois Tech physics undergraduates have won competitive research internships for summer 2018 at Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and University of Chicago.

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David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, and Trung Hai Nguyen, senior research associate, recently published an article, “Implicit Ligand Theory for Relative Binding Free Energies,” in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

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Nathaniel Brown of Penn State University will speak on the importance of diversity in STEM—and how the Millennium Scholars Program at Penn State is helping to achieve it—on Friday, April 20 from 3:15–4:30 p.m.

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College of Science Professor of Physics Daniel Kaplan and his collaborators have recently published two papers.

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Based on the strong recommendation of the College of Science Dean Search Committee, Interim Provost Russell Betts has announced the appointment of Professor Xiaofan Li as interim dean of the college effective August 2018 until such time as a full search for the new dean can be concluded.

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Several members of Illinois Tech’s STARS Computing Corps, which seeks to broaden participation of underrepresented populations in computing, spent part of their spring break at nearby Holy Angels Catholic School teaching grade-school kids how to code.

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