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New Students Awarded UCLA Chancellor’s Prize  (July 2006)

Incoming PhD. students Paul Smith, Jack Buttcane and Matt Lane were awarded the UCLA Chancellor’s Prize.  This prestigious prize is given in very small numbers (2or 3 a year, at most) by our administration to our most highly recruited new students.

Students Awarded Prize for Excellence   (May 2006)

The Horn-Moez Prize for Excellence in First Year Graduate Studies was awarded to PhD. students William Meyerson and Yifei Lou.  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).

Distinguished Teaching Assistant Awards Given  (May 2006)

Flynn Heiss, Stephen O’Dell, Eric Ryckman and Dan Shiber were 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.

Three Students Awarded Clay Liftoff Fellowships (February 2006)

The Clay Mathematics Institute has named three UCLA Mathematics graduate students as 2006 Liftoff Fellows. Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Jesse Petersen, Monica Visan, and Yon-Seo Kim! And congratulations also to their thesis advisors, Professors Sorin Popa, Terence Tao, and Kefeng Liu. The Clay Liftoff Fellowships are awarded to young Mathematicians who have demonstrated mathematical research of quality and significance, and who show the potential to be leaders in their field.

Graduate Student Publications  (2006)

Jian Liu, along with, X. Jiang, H. Gong, M. Zhou, and Z-S.She, Hierarchical structures in a turbulent free shear flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 569, pp. 259-286, 2006.

Math Grad Featured in New York Times (July 2005)

UCLA Mathematics alumna and film/television actress Danica McKellar and Professor Lincoln Chayes are featured in a New York Times (July 19, 2005), article entitled "Between Series, an Actress Became a Superstar (in Math)". Free registration is required to view the entire article

National Science Foundation VIGRE Program Funds Students

Twenty-five incoming and thirty-five other   PhD. students are benefiting from the NSF’s generous and ambitious VIGRE program, which is designed to transform the way universities think about and train mathematicians.  VIGRE funding is helping to expand and strengthen our department.  The following first year students are being funded by Vigre money:  Jonas Azzam, Jack Buttcane, Ryan Compton, Pascal Getreuer, Clinton Givens, Michael Hall, Judah Jacobson, Matt Lane, Carl Lederman, Adam Massey, Matthew Mata, Aleka McAdams, Chris McKinlay, Sam Peterson, Anthony Ruozzi, Ben Shargel, Justin Shih, Owen Sizemore, Paul Smith, Eamonn Tweedy, Alex Vandenberg-Rodes, Alden Waters and Siwei Zhu.

Students Awarded Fellowships for 2006-2007

The Department of Mathematics is pleased and proud to recognize the following graduate students as recipients of the listed fellowships and scholarships for the academic year 2006-07.

Rongjie Lai	Roy and Dorothy John Fellowship
Vjekoslav Kovac Eric Ryckman, Adrian	Dorothy Radcliffe Dee Fellowship
Ioanna, William Skeith	Dissertation Year Fellowship
Tim Austin	Shapiro International Fellowship
Ken Maples, David Gaebler	National Science Foundation Fellowship
Nancy Rodriguez	Ford Foundation Fellowship
Tom Goldstein	Research Mentor Fellowship