Department News (2009)
Matt Emerton gave a Bourbaki Seminar titled " p-adic families of modular forms" on November 15, 2009.
Yuri Manin is featured in an interview " We Do Not Choose Mathematics as Our Profession, It Chooses Us" in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
Vesna Stojanoska has been awarded the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for her article joint with Orlin Stoytchev, "Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations," that appeared in the Mathematics Magazine in December, 2008.
Kevin Costello and Amie Wilkinson will give invited addresses at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India. Hillel Furstenberg will be a plenary speaker.
Simon Donaldson visited the department for two weeks and was be awarded the Nemmers Prize on October 27, 2009.
Jared Wunsch has been promoted to Full Professor.
Frank Calegari has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Martina Bode has been promoted to Distinguished Senior Lecturer.
John Alongi and Eugene Kushnirsky have been promoted to Senior Lecturer.
Professor Hillel Furstenberg, member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 2006/7 Wolf Prize winner, is a visiting professor in the department in fall, 2009, teaching Math 513, Topics in Dynamical Systems.
Owen Gwilliam was awarded the new Gelfand Award for Achievement by a Returning Student. Owen is cited for his contributions to the mathematical vitality of the department.
Cheng Ouyang won the award for the best PhD dissertation in 2009. Cheng is cited for his excellent thesis, "Asymptotics of Implied Volatility in Local Volatility Models," an application of stochastic analysis to financial mathematics.
Xin Jin won the award for the best preliminary exams.
Bohan Fang has won a Presidential Fellowship for 2009-2011, the university's most prestigious fellowship for graduate students.
Amie Wilkinson will give an AMS invited address at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.
Matthew Emerton will give an invited address at the 2010 Spring Central Section Meeting in St. Paul.
Jared Wunsch will give an invited address at the 2010 Fall Central Section Meeting in Notre Dame.
Michael Kasa and Jonah Leshin, who received their BA's in Mathematics in June 2008, have passed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University with distinction, the highest level.
John Alongi and Martina Bode were selected by the undergraduate student body as members of the 2009-2010 Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll.
David Nadler has been awarded a 2008-9 Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty Award from the Graduate School as someone who has given tirelessly of their time to mentor graduate students and develop outstanding programs.
Our colleague Frank Calegari won both an NSF CAREER award and a Sloan Research Fellowship starting in Fall 2009.
Our colleague John Francis has been awarded an NSF PostDoctoral Research Fellowship starting in September 2009.
The math department has awarded its 2008-2009 Undergraduate Prizes.
Persi Diaconis gave lectures entitled The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards for the 2009 Mark and Joanna Pinsky Distinguished Lecture Series at 4:00 PM on February 4,5,6, 2009 in Lunt 105.
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