Dr. Shalmali Bandyopadhyay (left), assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, was awarded a competitive Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Mentoring Travel Grant to support a research collaboration with Dr. Nsoki Mavinga (right) of Swarthmore College. The AWM Mentoring Travel Grant program is designed to help early-career women mathematicians develop long-term research and mentoring relationships with established researchers in their fields. The program supports a small cohort of awardees annually through a national competition. During the month-long funded collaboration, Bandyopadhyay and Mavinga investigated the existence of solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems using the method of sub- and supersolutions, a classical technique in nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations. The attached photograph shows Bandyopadhyay and Mavinga working together during one of their research sessions.
