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Graduate Student Jacque Davis Wins Best Poster Award
March 5, 2014 – Graduate student Jacque Davis has won an award from the American Women in Mathematics (AWM) for Most Outstanding Graduate Student Research Poster at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Baltimore in January 2014. The JMM is the largest mathematics meeting in the world, held jointly by the American Mathematical Association and the Mathematical Association...
Workshop on Ordered Algebras and Logic
February 14, 2014 – The Department of Mathematics will host a two-day Shanks Workshop on Ordered Algebras and Logic February 22-23, 2014. In recent years, the interest in non-classical logics and its connections with ordered algebraic structures has been growing. Motivations from computer science, natural language reasoning and linguistics have played a significant role in this development. The aim...
Akram Aldroubi Named a Fellow of the AMS
December 2, 2013 – Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Akram Aldroubi has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2014, the program’s second year. The society recognized Aldroubi for contributions to modern harmonic analysis and its applications, and for building bridges between mathematics and other areas of science and engineering. The Fellows of the...
Paul Ponmattam Receives AMS Award
October 25, 2013 – Vanderbilt University mathematics major Paul Ponmattam has received a $3,000 Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Award from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The AMS makes $18,000 in awards to six undergraduates nationwide each year through the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Fund. Six geographically distributed universities are chosen in a random drawing from the society’s institutional members....
Seven New Postdocs Join the Department
September 24, 2013 – The Department of Mathematics has a strong postdoctoral program that attracts outstanding young researchers from top universities. Seven new postdoctoral fellows joined the department this fall, bringing the total number of postdocs to 19. Arnaud Brothier received his Ph.D. in 2011 at the Université Diderot. His research interests are in von Neumann algebras. Yago Antolin...
Workshop Explores Quantum Symmetries
September 11, 2013 – The Department of Mathematics will host a two-day DARPA and Shanks Workshop on “Quantum Symmetries” October 26-27, 2013. Several workshop participants will report on progress on DARPA funded research projects. Other talks will cover areas that could be broadly described as quantum symmetries. Speakers will include Uffe Haagerup of the University of Copenhagen; Vaughan Jones...
Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic 2013
July 23, 2013 – The Department of Mathematics hosted the Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic 2013 Conference July 28 through August 1. TACL 2013 was held in conjunction with the 27th Annual Shanks Lectures. Studying logics via semantics is a well-established and very active branch of mathematical logic, with many applications, in computer science and elsewhere. The area...
Grad Students Secure Grants for Summer Programs
May 22, 2013 – Two Department of Mathematics graduate students have received travel grants to attend research programs and conferences in the U.S. and abroad this summer. Emily Marshall, a fourth-year graduate student, was awarded an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute grant from the National Science Foundation to study at Monash University in Australia for two months from...
Student Award Winners Honored at Annual Ceremony
May 15, 2013 – Three graduate students and one undergraduate student were recognized at the Department of Mathematics’ annual student awards ceremony held recently. The Bjarni Jónsson Prize for Research was awarded jointly to Alexander Wires and William Young. The prize, which recognizes graduate students for exceptional research in mathematics, was established in honor of Distinguished Professor of Mathematics,...
Larry Schumaker Named SIAM Fellow
April 24, 2013 – Stevenson Professor Larry Schumaker has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is one of only 33 mathematicians named as SIAM Fellows this year. The SIAM Fellows program honors members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the discipline. Schumaker was selected...