Department News (2012)

Congratulations to undergraduates Zeyu Wang, Xuchen Han and Yuxuan Chen for receiving Honorable Mention in the 2012 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

Kevin Costello has been named the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor in Mathematics.

Congratulations to Northwestern's Putnam team, which ranked 32nd out of 572 participating institutions. Special applause to Benjamin Segal, Zeyu Wang and Ewain Gwynn who finished in the top 10% of the 4440 participants, and to Siyuan Cai, ranked 75.5, earning an honorable mention.

Staff member Nancy Hickey was awarded a Service Excellence Commendation by Northwestern University.

Austin Ford and Owen Gwilliam have been awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships, starting in 2012-13.

Kevin Costello and Eric Zaslow have been named Simons Fellows in Mathematics for 2012-13.

The department congratulates former graduate student Young-Heon Kim, currently an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, on his receipt of the Andre-Aisenstadt Prize for 2012.

Frank Calegari will give an invited address at the 2012 Spring Central Section Meeting at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

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