News from the Math Department
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Lisa Termine has been appointed to the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford. (April 2008)
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Results are in for the Spring 2008 Calculus Competition.
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Tom Bella, currently completing his Ph.D. under Vadim Olshevsky, has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. (March 2008)
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Thomas DeFranco is the recipient of the 2008 AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation. (March 2008)
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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)
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Adam Bowers, former PhD student and currently Assistant Professor in Residence, will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematics Department of the University of Missouri at Columbia. (March 2008)
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Richard Nickl, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, has accepted a Tenured Lecturer Position in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics of Cambridge University in England. (March 2008)
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New Course Numbering System ordered by either OLD or NEW course numbers.
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Israel Koltracht, 1949-2008: Our friend and colleague Professor Israel Koltracht, a member of the department for more than 20 years, passed away. (February, 2008)
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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)
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Evarist Gine has been chosen to receive one of the Provost's Research Excellence Awards this year. (February 2008)
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Richard Bass has been designated a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. (January 2008)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Sarah Glaz has been chosen by the Institute of Teaching and Learning as 2007-2008 University Teaching Fellow. (April 2007)
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Louis Lombardi, Director of the Actuarial Science Program, has been chosen as the Honors Council Faculty Member of the Year for 2007. (April 2007)
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Changfeng Gui is the recipient of the 2007 Provost Research Excellence Award. (April 2007)
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Two juniors and nine seniors from the Mathematics Department were invited to join Phi Beta Kappa. (April 2007)
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Masha Gordina, Ralph Kaufmann, and
Reed Solomon earned tenure and have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. (April 2007)
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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)
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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)
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Miki Neumann, professor and head of the mathematics department, was named Distinguished Professor by the Board of Trustees on January 30, 2007.
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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.
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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)
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Keith Conrad and Reed Solomon have been awarded the 2005/06 Teaching Promise AAUP Excellence Award. (July 2006)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The Department's Annual Awards Day Ceremony was held on Wednesday, April 18 and many outstanding students were honored.
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The Mathematics Department presented its first Distinguished Alumni Award to Professor Richard A. Brualdi on Thursday, March 29, 2007. The festivities included a special colloquium presented by Professor Brualdi, followed by a reception in the Math Lounge and dinner at the Alumni Center.
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Annual Calculus Competition —
UConn's annual Calculus Competition was held the evening of Monday, March 26, 2007. Twenty-two students participated and the competition was both fierce and at a high level.
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Slate.com: "The place in America where one has the smallest chance of being killed by
nature is Storrs." Slate Article —
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