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Honors and Awards

  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day took place on April 30 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. The invited address "Math is not a spectator sport," was given by Glen Whitney, the president of the Museum of Mathematics.
  • Tyler Reese was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Tyler worked under guidance of Luke Rogers, Dan Kelleher and Sasha Teplyaev. He will continue his research in the Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics graduate program at the University of Michigan.
  • The Math Waiting List is set up for the Fall 2013 semester. The Waiting List shows the current enrollment for each course and the number of students on the waiting list.
  • The Math Waiting List is set up for the spring semester. The Waiting List shows the current enrollment for each course and the number of students on the waiting list.
  • Amit Savkar received the AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation for 2013, along with Xinnian Chen (Physiology and Neurobiology).
  • Jim Trimble and Michael Braunstein were interviewed about the UConn Actuarial Science Program on Wili AM 1400 on March 13, 2013. The interview is available online.
  • The annual Calculus Competition was held Thursday April 4th 2013 from 7 to 9 PM in MSB 219.
  • Professor Changfeng Gui is on the scientific committee of an international conference on analysis and PDEs to be held during July 7-12 in Vancouver, Canada. He received a grant from NSF to support US participants. More informaiton about the meeting can be found at the conference website.
  • Professor Vadim Olshevsky will serve as a chair of the scientific and local organizing committees of ILAS-2013, the annual meeting of the International Linear Algebra Society, to be held in Providence (RI) June 3-7. Annual ILAS meetings typically have over 300 participants. See the conference website for more information.
  • Professors Bill Abikoff, Rich Bass, and Changfeng Gui are in the inaugural list of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. The complete list is available here.
  • Milena Hering and Alexander Teplyaev have received a Supplemental NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant. This is the 5th year of the department's REU program. (August 2012)
  • Information about the department's 2012 REU program is here.
  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day took place Thursday, April 26 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Michael Zieve (Univ. Michigan) on "Square Values of Polynomials."
  • The Thomas McCabe Lecture Series took place April 26th at 2:00 p.m. in IMS 20. The speaker was Ray Sidney, who talked on "Google's Early Days". Click for More Information
  • The annual Calculus Competition was held Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 7-9 PM in room 315 of the Mathematical Sciences Building.

    Cash and book prizes were awarded in three categories:
    • Beginner (roughly, through first-year calculus)
    • Intermediate (roughly, through multivariable calculus, beginning differential equations, and beginning linear algebra)
    • Over-all
    All undergraduates and E.O. Smith students taking math courses AT UCONN (not Co-op courses at E.O. Smith) are eligible to participate.

    Participants sign up on the sheet outside the Reception Office (MSB 102) by Monday March 19th, and should arrive at the competition by 6:50 PM. Questions may be addressed to Prof. S. J. Sidney, MSB 419b/c, 486-8380, sidney@math.uconn.edu.
  • Fabiana Cardetti received the 2011/12 Teaching Promise AAUP Excellence Award. (March 2012)
  • Emil Valdez has been awarded (along with his co-author Jed Frees of Wisconsin) the 2011 David Garrick Halmstad prize by the Actuarial Foundation for the best actuarial research published in 2010.
  • Arend Bayer is a recipient of a three-year grant "Wall-Crossing, stability conditions, and mirror symmetry," from the Algebra and Number Theory Program at the NSF.
  • Emil Valdez and his co-authors Andreas Tsanakas, Jan Dhaene and Steven Vanduffel have been awarded the the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Prize in the category for Insurance Operations and Markets on November 24, 2011.
  • Dmitry Leykekhman organized a conference on the finite element method at the Avery Point campus during October 14-15, 2011. (October 2011)
  • Dmitry Leykekhman received an a NSF grant for three years, titled "Local properties of the finite element solutions to PDE constrained optimal control problems". (September 2011)
  • Fabiana Cardetti, in collaboration with Mary Truxaw and Megan Staples (Neag School of Education), has been awarded $381,130 by the State Department of Higher Education under the 2011 Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program. This grant will support the year-long project entitled: "UConn MLA: Mathematics Leadership Academy" to provide professional development in mathematics content and pedagogy for middle and high school mathematics teachers from across four public school districts in Connecticut. The program includes 12 credits of graduate coursework for participating teachers, as well as extensive school-based support for collaborative leadership activities related to mathematics education. (September 2011)
  • Charles Vinsonhaler along with co-authors John Clark and Kevin O'Meara had their book "Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra: Weaving Matrix Problems through the Weyr Form," published by Oxford University Press. (September 2011)
  • Richard Bass and Maria Gordina participated in the Foundations of Stochastic Analysis conference at the Banff International Research Station Sept. 18-23, which is in honor of Bass's 60th birthday. (September 2011)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded a three-year grant for research on "Random, Stochastic, and Self-Similar Equations." The grant will be funded by the Probability Program in the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences. (September 2011)
  • Fabiana Cardetti's work with the Math Leadership Academy is reported in the Hartford Courant. (August 2011)
  • William David (Dave) Lindsay, Jr. was recently awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2011-12 academic year. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award for mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering majors.
    Lindsay is pursuing a dual major in Mathematics as well as Physiology and Neurobiology. He has been developing algebraic models, in an undergraduate thesis supervised by Math Professor Milena Hering, to support and develop the conceptual setting for his laboratory work on cells.

    We congratulate Dave on his accomplishment and look forward to sharing his future successes. (August 2011)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has received a Supplemental NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant (jointly with his Ph.D. student Dan Kelleher). This is the 4th year of the "Analysis, Probability and Mathematical Physics on Fractals" project. (August 2011)
  • On June 25th Jay Vadiveloo and Lu Ma were interviewed by Charles Wolfe on WPKN 89.5 FM about the risk management for small businesses initiative undertaken by the Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research. (June 2011)
  • Bernard Sippin '52 Scholarship Fund
    This year three UConn mathematics students, William David Lindsay, Jr., Aaron A. Nelson, and William C. Snider II, were chosen as recipients of the Bernard Sippin '52 Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to academically outstanding undergraduate students enrolled full time as a mathematics major (or intent to declare a major in mathematics) at the University of Connecticut. The selection committee chose those three recipients from a very impressive pool of applicants. Congratulations to all three winners for this well deserved honor. (May 2011)
  • Congratulations to three UConn mathematics students, William David Lindsay, Jr., Aaron A. Nelson, and William C. Snider II, who were chosen as recipients of the Bernard Sippin '52 Scholarship.
  • Mathematics Awards Day - Thursday April 14
  • Alvaro Lozano-Robledo's book, "Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms and Their L-functions", has been published by the AMS. It may be ordered from the AMS by clicking here. (February 2011)
  • Greg Huber, who holds a joint appointment with the Center for Cell Analysis & Modelling at the UConn Health Center, was an organizer of this year's University of Indiana workshop on Biocomplexity December 3-5, 2010. The theme of the workshop is: "The Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity & Individuality". For more details, click here.
  • Milena Hering has been informed by the Algebra and Number Theory Program at the NSF that she will be receiving a 3-year NSF grant for her research on "Varieties with Torus Actions: Algebra and Combinatorics." (April 2010)
  • Arend Bayer is a recipient of an NSF grant "Wall-Crossing for Moduli Spaces of of Bridgeland-Stable Objects, Birational Geometry and Gromov-Witten Theory," 2008-2011. The grant from the Algebra and Number Theory Program was transferred to UConn on January 15, 2010.
  • The Hachemeister Prize Committee has awarded the 2010 Charles A. Hachemeister Prize to Edward W. Frees, Peng Shi, and Emiliano A. Valdez for their paper, "Actuarial Applications of a Hierarchical Insurance Claims Model." Click here for more information. (November 2010)
  • The Probability, Combinatorics, and Foundations Program of the NSF informed Ralf Schiffler that it will fund him for the next three years to do research on his proposal "Cluster Algebras and Tilting Theory II." (May 2010)
  • The Probability, Combinatorics, and Foundations Program of the NSF informed Masha Gordina that it will fund her for the next three years to do research on her proposal "Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics." (May 2010)
  • Sixteen undergraduate math majors were elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Antoni Brzoska, Levi Benjamin DeValve, Christopher D. Hickey, Cheryl Ann Holowienko, Lindsay Rose King, Kathleen Li, Dominick James Major, Tracy Anne Margiott, Christine Elizabeth McMeekin, Ashley Nicole Ruegg, Joshua Ryan Strupcewski, Acacia Lauren Wagner, Michelle Nevine Wahab, Cheri Lynn Wiggin, Besmir Xhurxhi and Yi Zhang. (April 2010)
  • Joseph Pomianowski, a 2009 graduate with a double major in Mathematics and Molecular and Cell Biology, has been awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship to Poland, where he will study the life of Stefan Banach. Joseph has just completed an MA in the History of Science at Harvard. (August 2010)
  • Mark Naigles has been awarded the Institute of Teaching and Learning 2010-2011 Outstanding Adjunct Award at its Instructional Excellence Recognition Dinner. (April 2010)
  • Sarah Glaz was awarded a 2010 Faculty Small Grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research for her proposal Sabbatical Research Collaboration on Prufer-Like Conditions in Commutative Rings. (April 2010)
  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day took place Monday, April 12. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Steve Miller (Williams) "Pythagoras at the Bat: An Introduction to Statistics and Modeling." Click here for the program and list of honorees.
  • Fabiana Cardetti and Amit Savkar are the recipients of the 2010 Provost's General Education and Course Enhancement Competition grant for their proposal: "Pedagogy in Large Lectures." Their research will focus on Mathematics 1131 - Calculus I. (April 2010)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has received a Supplemental NSF REU grant to research with undergraduates students in the area of "Analysis on Fractals". This is the 3rd year of a joint project with Sasha's PhD student Ben Steinhurst. (March 2010)
  • Miki Neumann has been selected as the first Stuart and Joan Sidney Professor of Mathematics. The professorship was established with a gift from the four children of Stuart, a recently retired professor in the Mathematics Department, and Joan, a poet, writer-in-residence and special research associate at UConn's Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. (February 2010)
  • Sarah Glaz has received a grant from GNSAGA-INdAM, the Italian government agency awarding grants in mathematics, to support her visiting professorship and research in algebra at the University of Rome Tre. During her visit, Glaz will participate in a special semester on Commutative Algebra, where she will give a series of lectures. (February 2010)
  • The Society of Actuaries, the top professional organization of life actuaries in the US, has recognized the department's Actuarial Science Program as a Center of Actuarial Excellence. The recognition is initially for 5 years, ending on December 31, 2014.
    The recognition makes the department eligible to compete for substantial education and research grants to enhance the program, research in actuarial science and the profession. It also means the department will be promoted on the SOA's web site.
    This recognition will make the department's already strong actuarial science program even stronger and allow it to become a magnet for attracting even better students for both its undergraduate and graduate components.
    Department Head Miki Neumann has expressed his appreciation to the present actuarial science program faculty, Michael Braunstein, Jim Bridgeman, Jim Trimble, Jay Vadiveloo, and Emil Valdez, for bringing bringing the department this honor, as well as former, now retired faculty Louis Lombardi, Richard London, Walt Lowerie and Chuck Vinsonhaler whose hard work for many years brought the department to this point.
    Neumann has also thanked Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and Frank Gifford, Director of Development at CLAS, for their strong support of the program and their help during the visitation of the CAE Evaluation Committee, along with the faculty and graduate and undergraduate students who participated in the visitation and helped demonstrate the vibrancy of the program. (November 2009)
  • Family Honors Parents with Math Professorship: UConn Today published a feature about the Stuart and Joan Sidney Professorship in Mathematics endowed by their four children.
  • Rich Bass has been awarded an NSF grant from the Probability Program for his proposal "Stochastic differential equations: potential theory and uniqueness". (July 2009)
  • Fabiana Cardetti, Tom DeFranco (who has a joint appointment with the Neag School of Education), and Chuck Vinsonhaler are the recipients of a $900,000 NSF grant jointly with Mike Alfano from the Neag School of Education and Juliet Lee from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB).
    The 5 year grant is the from the NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. The purpose of the grant is to encourage math and science majors to go into teaching.
  • Milena Hering has been awarded the Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellowship to spend a total of 3 months, this summer and next, doing research at the Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute in Germany. (May 2009)
  • The Board of Trustees has awarded tenure to Keith Conrad and Xiaodong Yan and promoted both to Associate Professor as of the beginning of the next academic year. (April 2009)
  • Christine McMeekin is receiving an Oaklawn Scholarship for 2009-2010. This award is based on academic excellence and leadership. Read more about it on the Honors Program's web site. (April 2009)
  • Eleven undergraduate math majors were elected on April 7, 2009 to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Yi-Jun Chen, Jason Michael Crowley, Ryan James Esplin, Eric John Forfa, Nicole Lynn Gottier, Caroline Truc Lam, Thomas D. Murawski, Russell G. Nash, Andrew Nelson Phillips, Joseph Alexander Pomianowski, and Linda Tran. They will be initiated into the Society on Sunday, May 3. (April 2009)
  • Professor David Gross will be receiving the UConn Early College Experience Program's "Faculty Coordinator Award for Excellence in Curriculum & Adjunct Faculty Development." (April 2009)
  • Professor Alvaro Lozano-Robledo won the 2009 Provost's Competition for his proposal "Math 1132Q Calculus II." (April 2009)
  • Professors David Gross and Jeffrey Tollefson won the 2009 Provost's Competition for their proposal "Math 1131Q Calculus I." (April 2009)
  • Oscar Levin has won the Institute of Teaching and Learning (ITL) Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award for 2009 in recognition of his deep commitment and wide range activities in the service of the Mathematics Department's teaching mission.
    The ITL Outstanding TA Award, established in 1999, is the highest teaching award conferred by the university on a graduate student. Oscar Levin is the third mathematics TA to receive this honor. The previous winners from our department were Regina Speicher in 2004, and Jason Molitierno in 2000. (April 2009)
  • Professor Stuart J. Sidney has been appointed as a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS).
    The induction ceremony will be on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at 4:00 pm., preceding the CAAS monthly meeting, with the location and program for the meeting yet to be announced. (March, 2009)
  • The Mathematics Department's Annual Awards Day was held Thursday, April 16. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address was given by Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College, "Great Moments of the Riemann Zeta-Function."
    Click Here for the schedule and a list of awardees.
  • Professor Masha Gordina has been awarded the Ruth J. Michler Memorial Prize by the AWM - the Association for Women in Mathematics.
    This national prize, which awards its recipient a fellowship to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department in Cornell without teaching obligations, is a recognition of Masha's excellence in research and professional activities.
    On February 6, 2009, the AWM released this announcement.
    More details about the prize can be found at <www.awm-math.org/michlerprize.html> and an article published in the UConn Advance. (February 2009)
  • Eugene Boman has won the MAA's Allendoerfer Award for the expository paper "Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!" which appeared in the Mathematics Magazine April 2007 issue (Vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 104-111). The paper was written jointly with Richard Brazier and Derek Seiple.
    Eugene graduated from UConn in 1993 and was one of Izzi Koltracht's first Ph.D. students.
    He is currently Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg. (January 2009)
  • Professor Emeritus Charles Vinsonhaler has been appointed Associate Director of the Teachers for a New Era (TNE) initiative. (November 2008)
  • Professor Tom Defranco has been appointed Dean of the Neag School of Education. His appointment will start on July 1, 2009.
  • Wolodymyr Madych is the recipient of the UConn Alumni Association 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research (Sciences). (August 2008)
  • Emiliano Valdez was notified that a proposal, in which he is one of seven Principal Investigators, will be funded by the Australian Research Council.
  • Joseph Pomianowski, an undergraduate student, has received an award from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute to travel to Poland to research - under supervision of Stuart Sidney - the life of Stefan Banach.
  • Dmitriy Leykekhman will receive NSF funding for his research proposal "Discontinuous galerkin methods for optimal control problems governed by Advection-Diffusion Equations" for a period of three years. (July 2008)
  • Thomas DeFranco is the recipient of the 2008 AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation. (March 2008)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded a three year grant for research on "Random, Stochastic, and Self-similar Equations." The grant will be funded jointly by the Probability and Analysis Programs in the Division of Mathematical Sciences. (March 2008)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Matthew Cecil was honored by the UConn Alpha Lambda Delta chapter as Instructor of the Year for 2007/08.
    The Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for first year students. (February 2008)
  • Evarist Gine has been chosen to receive one of the Provost's Research Excellence Awards this year. (February 2008)
  • Richard Bass has been designated a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. (January 2008)
  • Vadim Olshevsky has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal of Linear and Multilinear Algbera for a period of five years. Olshevsky is also on the editorial board of four other publications: Linear Algebra and its Applications, Integral Equations and Operator Theory, ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, and the Birkhauser book series on Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. (December 2007)
  • In July 2001, Chancellor Petersen announced that four University faculty members had been chosen for the Chancellor's Research and Excellence Awards. We were especially pleased that two were mathematicians, Richard Bass and Joe McKenna. On Thursday, November 15, the Department celebrated with a special dual colloquium at which Rich spoke for 30 minutes about one area of mathematical research to which he has made many contributions and Joe gave a half hour overview of the development of the problems with which he has tangled. The awards were formally presented at the graduate commencement on May 19, 2002.
  • Manuel Lerman received the 1999 Research Excellence Award from the UConn Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. This university-wide award recognizes outstanding research contributions by UConn faculty members.
  • Richard Bass was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians, Zürich in 1994.
  • Richard Bass was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1989.
  • Richard Bass has been appointed to be the next editor for the fields of Probability and Statistics of the prestigious journal Transactions and Memoirs of the AMS. His tenure as editor begins on February of 2008. (September 2007)
  • Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded in the prestigious Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to work on "Stochastic and self-similar equations" with Professor M. Rockner of the University of Bielefeld. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stageresearchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projectsof their own choice in Germany. (July 2007)
  • Sarah Glaz has been chosen by the Institute of Teaching and Learning as 2007-2008 University Teaching Fellow. (April 2007)
  • Louis Lombardi, Director of the Actuarial Science Program, has been chosen as the Honors Council Faculty Member of the Year for 2007. (April 2007)
  • Changfeng Gui is the recipient of the 2007 Provost Research Excellence Award. (April 2007)
  • Bill Abikoff received a grant from the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics Program at the NSF to support the Lars Ahlfors Centennial Celebration in Helsinki, Finland, on August 20-24, 2007. (March 2007)
  • Masha Gordina has been awarded a three year grant by the Probability Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences of NSF to work on her proposal "Infinite-dimensional stochastic analysis."(March 2007)
  • Miki Neumann, professor and head of the mathematics department, was named Distinguished Professor by the Board of Trustees on January 30, 2007.
  • The Mathematics Department will host the Abelian Groups and Modules over Commutative Rings Conference June 11-15, 2007. Sarah Glaz, Chuck Vinsonhaler and Bill Wickless were awarded a grant from the Mathematical Sciences Division of the NSA, for the organization of the conference.
  • Tara Holm has been awarded a three year grant by the Geometric Analysis Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences of NSF to work on her proposal "The Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics of Hamiltonian Lie Group Actions." (July 2006)
  • Miki Neumann has been awarded a two year grant, beginning in 2007, by the Mathematical Sciences Program at the NSA for his proposal "Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, Applications, and the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Nonnegative Matrices." (June 2006)
  • Joe Miller has received a 3 year NSF grant from the Algebra, Number Theory,Combinatorics and Foundations Programs within the Division of Mathematical Sciences. Joe's proposed research is on "Randomness and Computability." (July 2006)
  • Keith Conrad and Reed Solomon have been awarded the 2005/06 Teaching Promise AAUP Excellence Award. (July 2006)
  • Richard Bass has been awarded a 3 year grant from the Probability and Statistics Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the NSF, to work on his proposal "Analysis of multidimensional processes." (July 2006)
  • Changfeng Gui has been selected to present an invited address at the 2006 Fall Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Storrs, October 28-29, 2006. (February 2006)
  • Fabiana A. Cardetti and Thomas Roby won a Department of Higher Education Teacher Quality Partnership Grant, funded through the federal No Child Left Behind act. (January 2006)
  • The Office of Sponsored Programs approved the nomination of Paul-Jean Cahen, Professor at the University of Marseille, France for a Short Term Guest Professorship. The nomination was made by Sarah Glaz (January 2006).
    Prof. Cahen is a reknowned commutative algebraist in the area of Integer Valued Polynomials, former Vice President of the French Mathematical Society, former Head of Research Division of the Science Faculty of the University of Marseille. He is also involved in educational enterprises. The Short Term Guest Professorship nomination was supported jointly by the Mathematics Department and by the Neag School of Education. Cahen will be visiting for the Fall 2006 semester and will collaborate in research with Sarah Glaz and other people in the department with interest in that area. (January 2006)
  • Vadim Olshevsky was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Integral Equations and Operator Theory. He is also on the editorial boards of Linear Algebra and its Applications and the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA). (October 2005)
  • Kyu-Hwan Lee won the the Korean Mathematical Society Prize for excellent papers published in Korean Mathematical Journals. Kyu-Hwan will receive the award at the Korean Mathematical Society's annual meeting. (October 2005)
  • Alexander Teplyaev was awarded a 3 year NSF grant to pursue research on "Random, stochastic, and self-similar equations". (September 2005)
  • David Gross was recognized by the Center for Academic Programs. (September 2005)
  • Stuart J. Sidney was the recipient of the Alumni Association's 2005 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching at the graduate level. The presentation will be made October 28, 2005, followed by a performance by UConn's Fine Arts students. (October 2005)
  • Changfeng Gui was awarded a 3 year NSF grant to pursue research on "Qualitative studies of some partial differential equations and systems." This is in continuation of an earlier grant. (May 2005)
  • Sarah Glaz won an award in the 2005 General Education Course Development Grant Competition for her proposal for a new course designed to provide a thorough preparation for science courses for students whose high school algebra background is not very strong. (May 2005)
  • James Hurley was awarded the the University of Connecticut High School Cooperative Faculty Coordinator Award for Excellence in Curriculum and Adjunct Faculty Development. Hurley is one of the first two recipients of this award. (April 2005)
  • Maria Gordina was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to work on "Stochastic Analysis in Infinite Dimensions" with Professor M. Rockner of the University of Bielefeld and with Professor S. Albeverio of the University of Bonn. (March 2005)
    The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stage researchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany .
  • Michael Neumann was awarded the Chancellor's Excellence in Research award for 2004-2005 and will be recognized for this achievement at the Undergraduate Commencement in May 2005.
  • Kinetsu Abe (Math), Thomas Peters (CSE and Math) and Alexander Russell (CSE and Math) were awarded an NSF grant "Computational Topology and Surface Approximation" for $255,000 for 3 years starting Sept 2004. This is a continuation of a grant which expired in Oct 2004.
  • Evarist Giné gave a Medallion Lecture at the joint 67th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and 6th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, in Barcelona, Catalonia, on July 26-31, 2004. The IMS selects eight Medallion Lecturers every year, and the one-hour lectures are delivered at the IMS meetings held during that year. Another researcher with ties to our Department, Vladimir Koltchinskii of the University of New Mexico, gave a Medallion Lecture at the same meeting. Evarist was also the President of the Program Committee for the IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadistica Matematica, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in March 2004. In addition, Evarist was awarded a 2-year grant from the National Security Agency to work on his project, "Limit Theorems in Probability Theory and Applications," through February 2006.
  • Bill Abikoff was a speaker at the convocation ceremony for the recently formed Honors College at the Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY) in January 2004.
  • Reed Solomon was awarded a 3-year NSF grant for his proposal "Computability Theory, Reverse Mathematics and Countable Algebraic Structures."
  • Regina Speicher received the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2004.
  • Maria Gordina was awarded a 3-year NSF grant for her proposal "Stochastic analysis in infinite dimensions."
  • Yung S. Choi received the Chancellor's Excellence in Research award for 2003-2004 and was recognized for this achievement at the Graduate Commencement in May 2004.
  • Sarah Glaz received the 2004 UConn AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Innovation. The award was presented at a ceremony at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on April 14.
  • Joe McKenna received the Distinguished College or University Teaching Award of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America for 2004.
  • On February 28, 2003, Professor Changfeng Gui received the Research Prize for 2002 of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. Changfeng was honored by the PIMS at the opening ceremonies for the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, in Alberta. Changfeng has a grant from the NSF, through June 2005, to work on a "Qualitative Study of Some Partial Differential Equations and Systems."