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Students Awarded Liftoff Fellowships (May 2008) |
The Clay Mathematics Institute has chosen Inessa Epstein and Robert Waelder as 2008 Liftoff Fellows. This Fellowship offers both a salary and funds for conference travel to recent PhD’s in the summer following their graduation. Fellows are first nominated by their home departments and are then chosen from thousands of applicants on the quality and significance of completed work and on their potential to become a standout in mathematical research. Both Inessa and Robert will be conducting their Fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Inessa will be working with Alex Furman and Robert will be collaborating with Anatoly Libgober. Congratulations Inessa and Robert! |
PhD Students Awarded NSF Postdoc Fellowships |
Jeremy Brandman, Inessa Epstein and Robert Waelder have received
prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowships for 2008. Each of
them has been awarded the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship. This Fellowship provides financial support for two years
under two options: Research Fellowship and Research Instructorship. By
providing financial support, this Fellowship frees *recipients* up to
choose, as their next step, the institution that will best facilitate
their progress and growth as mathematicians. Jeremy and Inessa are
taking the Instructorship option, with Jeremy at NYU and Inessa at
Caltech. Robert will be at the University of Illinois at Chicago with
the Research option. |
2007 Chancellor’s Prize Awarded |
Incoming students Wenye Ma, Konstantinos Palamourdas and Anush Tserunyan were awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for 2007. The Chancellor’s Prize is provided by the Graduate Division to help departments attract the most highly recruited doctoral students. |
A New Class of Students Benefits from VIGRE |
A renewed VIGRE grant from the National Science Foundation has allowed the department to fund another incoming class of PhD. students. Eleven new students and forty-seven continuing students are receiving all, or some part, of their support from Vigre funding. The VIGRE program, Vertical Integration of Research and Education, was developed to encourage involvement and cooperation between all aspects of a math department; research and education, students and teachers, pure and applied disciplines, and beginning and accomplished students. The eleven new students awarded funding this year are Jacob Bedrossian, Rachel Danson, Frances Fukushima, Erik Lewis, Tye Lidman, Mitra Navab, Viraj Navkal, Justin Palumbo, Laura Smith, Melissa Tong, and Stedman Wilson. |
Students Awarded Fellowships for 2007-2008 |
The Mathematics Department is pleased and proud to recognize the following graduate students as recipients of the listed fellowships and scholarships for the academic year 2007-2008.
Tim Austin
Selim Bahadir
Clinton Conley
Nickolas Del Pego
Zaher Hani
Colin Hinde
Ngoc Le
Choongbum Lee
Wenjian Liu
Dannielle O’Donnol
Justin Palumbo
Davide Reduzzi
Ryo Takei
Alex Thompson
Robert Waelder
Daniel Walton
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Huang Fellowship
Shapiro Fellowship
Research Mentorship Program Fellowship
Cota Robles Fellowship
Pauley Fellowship
Dissertation Year Fellowship
Vietnamese Education Foundation Fellowship
Samsung Scholarship
Dorothy Radcliffe Dee Fellowship
Dissertation Year Fellowship
Roy and Dorothy John Fellowship
Dorothy Radcliffe Dee Fellowship
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada Fellowship
Dissertation Year Fellowship
Dissertation Year Fellowship
National Science Foundation Scholarship
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Students Awarded Prize for Excellence (June 2007) |
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The Horn-Moez Prize for Excellence in First Year Graduate Studies was awarded to PhD. students Tim Austin and Vjekoslav Kovac. Recipients of this annual prize are chosen by the Graduate Vice Chair, and selections are based on high academic achievement and superior results on first-year qualifying exams. The award includes a cash stipend made possible by a bequest from Dr. Ali Amir-Moez, who received his Ph.D. in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA under the direction of Professor Alfred Horn (who passed away in 2001). |
Horn-Moez award winners Vjekoslav Kovac and Tim Austin are excellent.. |
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Distinguished Teaching Assistant Awards Given (June 2007) |
Craig Citro, Will Conley, Hengli Wang and Ricardo Salazarwere each awarded the Robert Sorgenfrey Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award. These PhD. candidates were chosen for their dedication to teaching, high classroom evaluations, and commitment to students. An honorarium is part of this award. |
Craig Citro, Will Conley, Hengli Wang, and Ricardo Salazar with Teaching Assistant Award. |
Graduate Students "Crack the Code" (2007) |
Seven graduate students, working together, have won the "Crack the Code" contest hosted by Simon Fraser University. The Code was cracked at 9:44am on Tuesday, February 20, 2007. The prize amount was $499.28. The code was cracked by 7 students from the University of California: Clint Givens, Kenneth Maples, Aleka McAdams, Paul Smith, Justin Shih, Pascal Getreur, and Siwei Zhu. The contest puzzle and info is online at: http://www.sfu.ca/philosopherscafe/crostic.htm
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Graduate Student Publications (2007) |
William Meyerson: On the arithmetic of arithmetical congruence monoids.
Colloquium Mathematicum, 108 (2007) pp.105-118.
http://journals.impan.gov.pl/cm/Inf/108-1-9.html
Joe Busch: On the optimality of the binary algorithm for the Jacobi symbol, Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 76, no. 1-2, pp. 1-11, 2007. |
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Graduate Students at Conferences (2007) |
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Joe Busch has been invited to attend the Second New York Graduate Student Logic Conference, in New York City on March 16-18. He will be talking on “Lower bounds and optimality results in arithmetic complexity.
"Igor Yanovsky was invited to be a conference speaker and present
a paper at the 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory
and applications in Barcelona, Spain, March 8-11. His paper was
entitled "Log-Unbiased Large-deformation Image Registration." |
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Math Grad Receives Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award (Jan. 07) |
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UCLA Mathematics PhD student Ronald Lok Ming Liu has been chosen to
receive the Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award for
2006-2007. The annual awards are based on faculty recommendations
and honor graduate students who have demonstrated exemplary academic
achievement, research and university citizenship. |
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