Mathematics of Networks: Modulus Theory and Convex Optimization

Nathan Albin received a BA in Mathematics from the University of Hawaii and Hilo in 2001. Following a short stint as a software engineer, he attended graduate school at the University of Utah and received a PhD in Mathematics in 2006. He was then awarded an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, hence spent one year researching at the University of Duisburg-Essen, before moving to Pasadena, CA to complete his postdoctoral research at Caltech. He was hired as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. His primary research interests include Applied Mathematics, Network Theory, Optimization Theory, and Numerical Analysis.

Pietro Poggi-Corradini grew up in Milan, Italy, and in 1992 received a Bachelor in Mathematics from the University of Milan. He then pursued his studies at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA) and graduated in 1996 with a PhD Thesis in Complex Dynamics and Operator Theory under Professor Don Marshall. Thereafter he became Whyburn Instructor at the University of Virginia and in 1998 joined the faculty at Kansas State University. He has been Full Professor at Kansas State University since 2005. His interests currently span Network Theory, Complex Analysis, Probability, and Applied Mathematics.