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Thursday, 10 October 2019 Our younger generation of mathematicians closer to US researchers

UP FAMNIT and UP IAM Departments of Mathematics have recently obtained new funds through a public tender for co-financing scientific research cooperation between Slovenia and the USA, this time from 2019 to 2021. Out of 99 approved projects, nine are signed by our researchers.

This means that in the next two years we will strengthen the existing cooperation by hosting in the following US Universities and Research Institutions: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Mississippi State University, College of William & Mary, University of Delaware, Troy University, The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), Rutgers University in National Institutes of Health.

Leaders of the nine approved projects are: Dr. Nina Chiarelli, Dr. Nino Bašič, Dr. Slobodan Filipovski, Dr. Matjaž Krnc, Dr. Safet Penjić, Dr. Graham Luke Morgan, Dr. Dušanka Janežič, Dr. István Kovács and Dr. Karla Ferjančič.

In the past, our mathematicians have already acquired a number of bilateral projects to collaborate with the US, but this year’s novelty is that project leaders are mostly part of the younger generation of our mathematicians. With this new success we continue connecting with the whole world.

Other researchers from our university were also successful, new bilateral projects will be implemented by dr. Martina Blečić Kavur (UP FHŠ), dr. Matjaž Nahtigal (UP FM), dr. David BrianDeVallance and dr. Iztok Šušteršič (UP and InnoRenew CoE).

Congratulations to our mathematicians on the new important achievement!


(On the picture - from left: dr. Graham Luke Morgan, dr. Dušanka Janežič, dr. Nino Bašič, dr. Safet Penjić,
dr. Nina Chiarelli, dr. Matjaž Krnc and dr. Karla Ferjančič)

The list of all approved projects is available here.

More about the projects:

  • István Kovács: Graphs, polytopes and configurations, UP IAM & University of Alaska Fairbanks,
  • Slobodan Filipovski: The cage problem, UP IAM & Mississippi State University,
  • Graham Luke Morgan: Distinguishing number of graphs, UP IAM & College of William & Mary,
  • Safet Penjić: Algebraic characterizations and combinatorial properties of (non)regular graphs with thin module of endpoint zero, UP IAM & University of Delaware,
  • Karla Ferjančič: Rational spline motions of a low degree, UP IAM & Mississippi State University,
  • Nina Chiarelli: F-WORM colorings in hereditary graph classes, UP IAM & Troy University,
  • Nino Bašić: Chemical graphs on steroids, UP IAM & The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA),
  • Matjaž Krnc: Certain problems in hypergraphs, graphs, and games, UP FAMNIT & Rutgers University,
  • Dušanka Janežič: Computer Algorithm Development for Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Macromolecules, UP FAMNIT & National Institutes of Health.