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Mathematics Students Honored for Outstanding Achievements
May 1, 2009 – The Department of Mathematics honored four outstanding students at its annual student awards reception in April 2009. This year’s graduate honors went to Matt Calef for excellence in teaching and to both Bogdan Nica and Iva Spaculova for outstanding research. Mathematics senior Ayla Gafni was recognized for undergraduate achievement. This year’s Bjarni Jónsson Prize for...
Seventh Annual Spring Institute on NCGOA May 4-13, 2009
April 29, 2009 – The Department of Mathematics will host the Seventh Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras May 4-13, 2009. The theme of this year’s event is “Geometry over F1, Noncommutative Geometry and Zeta.” The Spring Institute is a combination of spring school and international research conference. During the school portion of the meeting, mini-courses...
Jesse Peterson Receives Sloan Fellowship
March 26, 2009 – One of Vanderbilt’s newest mathematics faculty, Jesse Peterson, has been named among a select group of 118 young scientists, economists and mathematicians as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Peterson will receive a $50,000 research grant from the Sloan Foundation. Working under the supervision of Sorin Popa, a recognized leader in the field of operator...
Mary Ann Horn Elected to SIAM Board of Trustees
February 10, 2009 – Department of Mathematics Research Associate Professor Mary Ann Horn has been elected by the membership of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) as the newest member of the Board of Trustees. She will serve on the SIAM board through 2011. SIAM is an international community of more than 12,000 individual members, including applied...
Glenn Webb Honored with Special Issue
January 7, 2009 – Professor Glenn Webb has been honored with the dedication of a special issue of Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. Vol. 3, No. 7 (2008) of the journal is dedicated to Webb in honor of his 65th birthday. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena is an international research journal specializing in mathematical modeling in biology, medicine, chemistry, physics,...