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Kefeng Liu has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
for 2002, an award presented for "unusually distinguished achievement
and exceptional promise for future accomplishment."
Liu, whose research focuses on differential geometry, topology and
mathematical physics, will use the Guggenheim fellowship to conduct
research on the mathematical and physical aspects of the mirror principle.
The Guggenheim Fellowships are among the highest honors that can
be awarded to scholars, artists, and writers in America. (April
2002)
- Christopher Anderson will receive the 2002 UCLA Distinguished
Teaching Award -- one of only five awards given this year. This award
is the University's highest honor for classroom instruction. Professor
Anderson will receive the award at the 2002 UCLA Alumni Association
Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 18. (April 2002)
- Heinz Otto Kreiss has been awarded the prestigious National
Academy of Science Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.
Heinz received the award for his groundbreaking contributions to numerical
analysis, fluid dynamics and meteorology. News
Release from the NAS. (January 2002)
- Terrence Tao has received the Bocher Memorial Prize for 2002.
Tao received the Prize for "his recent breakthrough on the problem
of critical regularity in Sobolev spaces of the wave maps equations,
his collaborative papers on global regularity in optimal Sobolev spaces
for KdV, and his contributions to Strichartz and bilinear estimates."
News
Release from the AMS.(January 2002)
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