Ateneo Math joins national math society convention in Tacloban

A contingent of faculty members, current students, and alumni of Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Mathematics traveled to the University of the Philippines Tacloban College, Tacloban City for the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP) Annual Convention last 30 May to 2 June 2024.

Dr Richard Eden, graduate coordinator for Ateneo Math and member of the MSP National Board, served as convention co-chair. Current PhD Math student Annie Lyn Yusiong of UP Tacloban also served as co-chair of the local organizing committee, in coordination with the MSP Region 8 chapter.

Over three days of parallel oral presentations and poster exhibits, the convention participants discussed their current mathematical research in various real-life breakout sessions on five fields: applied mathematics, graph theory and combinatorics, analysis and statistics, algebra and number theory, and mathematics education. 

The following Ateneans presented their research on their fields on the following days:

Applied Mathematics

• Ms Chara Deanna Punzal in her joint work with Dr Giovanni Tapang of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, on the “Topological proximity and effects of preprocessing on the structure of word adjacency and distance networks” 
• Mr Limuel Generoso in their joint work with Mr Neil Cinco, Dr Jeric Briones, Mr Brian Godwin Lim, Mr Jasper John Segismundo and Mr Calvin Sia, on the “Effectiveness of forex loss function-long short term memory (FLF-LSTM) in forecasting United States Dollar-Philippine Peso (USDPHP) exchange rate.
• Mr Gabriel Rosauro Claravall in their joint work with Mr Carl Dacumos and Ms. Jade Torizo, Dr. Jeric Briones, Jasper John Segismundo, and Calvin Sia, on the “Comparative analysis of stock market sensitivity to exchange, interest, and inflation rates in the Philippines and the United States using quantile regression”
• Mr Miguel Carlo Yapan in their joint work with Ms Gabrielle Jackie Candano and Dr Clark Kendrick Go, on the “Analysing E-jeep operations in Ateneo de Manila University using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs.)”
• Dr Jeric Briones and his joint work with Joshua Olorocisimo of the Graduate school of Science and Technology of the Nara Insitute of Science and Technology on the “Non-parametric approach to analyzing CMOS imaging data for gene expression studies”

Graph Theory and Combinatorics

• Dr Reginaldo Marcelo and his joint work with Dr Agnes Garciano, Dr Mark Anthony Tolentino and Dr Mari-jo Ruiz(†), entitled “On rainbow mean colorings of n-ary trees.”
• Dr Ian June Garces and his joint work with Arnold Eniego of the National University and Jose Rosario of the Isabela State University - Cabagan Campus, on “Bounds and characterizations of N2-chromaticity of graphs”
• Dr Eduard Taganap (PhD Math ‘19) of the Central Luzon State University on “The n-queens problem on planar and modular chessboards with hexagonal cells”

Analysis and Statistics

• Mr Jim Mijares in his joint work with Dr. Eden Miro and Dr. Luis Silvestre, “On the diffraction of a family of constant-shaped block substitutions”
• Dr Emmanuel Cabral in his joint work with Joseph Belida of the Ateneo de Davao University entitled “On the equivalence of Two-Order Convergence Theorem and Controlled Convergence Theorem in the space HK”

Algebra and Number Theory

• Ms Agatha Kristel Abila in her joint work with Dr Ma Louise Antonette de las Peñas on the “Uniform edge-n-colorings of the uniform tiling (3⁶)” 
• Dr Ma Louise Antonette de las Peñas in her joint work with Dr Mark Tomenes on “(a, b, c) tilings invariant under 4-fold and 2-fold orientation preserving symmetries”
• Mr Kurt Anthony de los Santos in his joint work with Dr Eden Delight Miro and Dr Mark Loyola on the “Symmetries of the k-Free lattice systems arising from biquadratic number fields”
• Dr Alexander Balsomo (PhD Math ‘17), now of the Western Visayas State University, in his joint work with Dr Job Nable on the “Coadjoint orbits, Lie algebra representations and Wigner functions of affine Galilei group”

Mathematics Education

• Mr. Christian Abasta in his joint work with Dr. Lester Hao on “Developing a preliminary genetic decomposition for graphing rational functions.”

In addition to these parallel oral sessions, there was also a poster presentation in which Dr Orville Buelban (PhD Math ‘24) of the Ateneo de Davao University presented his joint work with Dr Agnes Garciano and their Dr Reginaldo Marcelo entitled “On finite collections of 4-connected graphs generated by forbidden triples that contain a star.”

Ateneo Math alumnus Dr Felipe Sumalpong Jr (PhD Math ‘18), currently of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, also presented his joint work with Eric Lauron on the poster session with a research entitled “PDE approach on pricing European real estate option using the Hull-White interest rate model in a fractional Brownian motion with transaction cost”.

Dr Debbie Marie B Verzosa, alumna of the BS Math and MS Math programs of the Ateneo and current Vice President for Research, Development and Extension of the University of Southern Philippines also gave a plenary talk on the last day of the convention exploring the question, “How Can Mathematicians Contribute to Mathematics Education in Schools?”

On the third day of the convention, Dr Mark Anthony Tolentino was elected as a Board Member of MSP to fill in a vacant spot after the end of terms of Dr Cabral, among others.

Dr Mark Tomenes also won the Outstanding PhD graduate award from the MSP, for his work on “Edge-to-edge tilings with vertex, edge, and tile transitive properties”, exhibiting excellence in his PhD dissertation work.

Ateneo Math remains strong in its commitment to ensuring that the goals of the MSP will be met–to promote math excellence and make the Philippine math research scene better.