Our History
The Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) Student Chapter at OSU was established in 2014 with the aim of fostering an interdisciplinary STEM community at Ohio State, and organizing professional and social events for undergrad and graduate students. We started the OSU Mathematical Contest in Modeling (OSU MCM) in 2017 as a way to introduce students to math modeling and the top performing teams in this competition would be trained and sponsored to participate in the International Contest in Modeling.
In 2017, Dr. Krystal Taylor started the Math To Industry (MTI) to connect math students with industry mathematicians and help students answer the age-old question: “What will I use math for in the workplace?”. Since then, MTI has hosted over 30 industry professionals. They also created the LOGIO OH/IO in 2018, a business strategy case competition, with the support of OHI/O and Deloitte.
In September 2023, the two organizations recognized the similarities in goals and decided to merge, becoming SIAM2I (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2 Industry). The new name was created by concatenating SIAM and M2I (We changed the “To” to a 2, get it? 🙂 ). Our mission is to inspire students to develop critical thinking and mathematical reasoning skills and pursue a career in applied mathematics. We aim to accomplish this through industry speaker events as part of the ongoing “Math 2 Industry” seminar series and the OSU MCM.
Faculty Advisors
Associate Professor and Creator of MTI: Dr. Krystal Taylor
Krystal Taylor is an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at The Ohio State University at Columbus. Her passion for mathematics centers around harmonic analysis with applications to geometric measure theory and analytic number theory. She is also interested in time series data analysis.
Before coming to OSU, she was an Industrial Postdoc at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota hosted by Professor Fadil Santosa. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Rochester, May 2012 under the direction of Professor Alex Iosevich. After graduating, she spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in mathematics at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology.
Assistant Professor and Chief Advisor for SIAM Chapter: Dr. John Holmes
John Holmes is a researcher and teacher at The Ohio State University (OSU). He grew up in Buffalo, NY before graduating from Wabash College with distinction. While attending Wabash, he won several awards including the Carscallen prize in mathematics, the Rogge award in economics, and the Andree award from the Pi Mu Epsilon national mathematics honor society. A year later, he earned a MS in applied mathematics with applications to financial economics from the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Thomas Cosimano (finance) and Alex Himonas (mathematics). He stayed at Notre Dame and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics under the supervision of Alex Himonas, and earned a second MS in mathematics along the way.
Assistant Professor: Dr. Maria Han Veiga
My background is in mathematics and computational science. After a short stint in industry as a Machine Learning researcher, I joined the Computational Science and Mathematics Graduate School at the University of Zurich as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Rémi Abgrall and Romain Teyssier. In 2020 I became a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Institute for Data Science, and in 2021 a postdoctoral assistant professor at the Mathematics department at University of Michigan. I have been at OSU since Fall of 2023 as an assistant professor in Mathematics.
My research focuses on numerical analysis for hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations, scientific machine learning and the interplay between these two fields. I am interested in developing theoretically sound methods and algorithms that work in practice, and I enjoy collaborations with other fields, such as astrophysics, medicine and engineering.
Zassenhaus Assistant Professor: Dr. Jonathan Stanfill
I graduated from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN with my B.A. in Mathematics with minors in Physics and Military Leadership in 2011. While in college, I was a member of the Army ROTC program and met my wife, Amanda. After college, I was commissioned in the US Army as an Ordnance Officer and spent my time in the military in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC.
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Baylor University in 2022 under the supervision of Fritz Gesztesy (Baylor University). My dissertation was titled “On Functions Related to the Spectral Theory for Sturm–Liouville Operators”. I am now a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. My general research interests include spectral theory, operator theory, special functions, and orthogonal polynomials. I am also a co-organizer for the Analysis and Operator Theory Seminar at OSU.
Senior Lecturer: Dr. Michael Tychonievich
Michael Tychonievich is a Senior Lecturer in the mathematics department at The Ohio State University at Columbus. His area of expertise focuses on mathematical finance and mathematical logic and foundations. He is also heavily involved with competitions and outreach.
