This page will be regularly updated with important events happening at the math department. Please e-mail news items to web-news@math.psu.edu.
| Pritchard dissertation awards. |
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The Graduate Studies Committee has announced this year's winners of the Pritchard Dissertation Award. The graduate student winners are
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| 11 / 16 / 2009 |
| October visitors. |
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The Department of Mathematics welcomes these visitors.
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| 10 / 05 / 2009 |
| Student chapter of SIAM. |
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| Recently a student chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has been founded here at Penn State. Students in all areas of the University are encouraged to join. There is no membership fee. The first event was a seminar talk, "Fourier analysis on iterative methods," by Mathematics graduate student Yao Chen. |
| 09 / 25 / 2009 |
| Simpson speaks in Computer Science Theory seminar. |
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| Recently Professor Stephen G. Simpson gave a talk in the Theory Seminar of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His talk was entitled An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity. His slides are available. |
| 09 / 17 / 2009 |
| Hager appointed Faculty Resident Scholar in the Penn State Learning Center. |
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| Senior Lecturer James Hager was recently appointed to the position of Faculty Resident Scholar in Math and Physical Sciences in the newly formed Penn State Learning Center. Specific duties of this part-time appointment include: 1) provide liaison services between the Math Department and the newly formed Penn State Learning Center, 2) work with faculty members to identify areas within individual courses where students struggle, 3) work with faculty members to consider new pedagogy and curricular innovations, 4) develop and support a variety of learning situations that engage students and encourage them to take personal responsibility for their education, 5) Work with PSULearning-affiliated graduate students conducting research in teaching and learning, 6) work closely with the Center for Excellence in Science Education when it comes on line. |
| 09 / 17 / 2009 |
| Vaserstein to speak in Operations Research Colloquium. |
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| Professor Leonid Vaserstein will speak in the Operations Research Colloquium here at Penn State. His talk is scheduled for September 8 at 4:15 PM. |
| 09 / 04 / 2009 |
| Visitors. |
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The Department of Mathematics welcomes these visitors.
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| 09 / 01 / 2009 |
| Spaeth accepts postdoctoral position in Korea. |
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| Lecturer Peter Spaeth has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in Seoul, starting September 2009. |
| 08 / 28 / 2009 |
| Sarig to speak at ICM. |
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| Associate Professor Omri Sarig will give a 45-minute invited presentation at the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 19-27, 2010, in Hyderabad, India. |
| 08 / 26 / 2009 |
| Mullen serves on Fq9 conference committee. |
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| Professor Gary L. Mullen served on the Organizing Committee for Fq 9, the Ninth International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications, held in Dublin, Ireland, July 13-17, 2009. He is also co-editing the conference proceedings volume to be published by the American Mathematical Society in their series Contemporary Mathematics. He also gave a talk entitled "Dickson polynomials over finite fields; a different perspective." |
| 08 / 14 / 2009 |
| Mullen serves as Acting Department Head. |
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| Professor Gary L. Mullen is serving as Acting Department Head from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. |
| 08 / 14 / 2009 |
| Jason Morton to join department as assistant professor. |
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| The Department of Mathematics welcomes Jason Morton, who will join us as an assistant professor in January 2010. Jason received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. His research interests include geometry of probability models and algorithms. |
| 08 / 13 / 2009 |
| New lecturers and postdocs. |
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The Department of Mathematics welcomes these new lecturers and postdoctoral faculty.
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| 08 / 13 / 2009 |
| Current NSF-DMS Research Grants. |
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| Currently 39 Penn State faculty members are Principal Investigators in research projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences. They are: Akritas, Andrews, Baum, Berlyand, Bressan, Brown, Brownawell, Du, Eisentraeger, Formanek, Fricks, Henderson, Higson, Jenssen, Katok, Krainer, Levi, B. Li, R. Li, W. Li, X. Li, Lindsay, Liu, Mazzucato, Nistor, Papikian, Pesin, Petrunin, Richards, Sarig, Shen, Simpson, Wu, Wysocki, J. Xu, P. Xu, Yao, Yee, Zikatanov. |
| 08 / 13 / 2009 |
| Fall Visitors. |
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The Department of Mathematics welcomes these visitors for Fall 2009.
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| 08 / 04 / 2009 |
| June visitors. |
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| 06 / 10 / 2009 |
| Birth announcement. |
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| We congratulate Staff Assistant Amy Stover on the birth of her daughter, Katelyn Amy Stover, on Tuesday June 2. |
| 06 / 10 / 2009 |
| Faculty promotions. |
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| Anna Mazzucato, Alexei Novikov, and Wen Shen have been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in our department. In addition, Kris Wysocki has been promoted to full Professor. Congratulations to Anna, Alexei, Wen and Kris! |
| 05 / 26 / 2009 |
| Morton joins department as a new Assistant Professor. |
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| Jason Morton from Stanford has accepted our department's offer of a tenure-track position jointly in our department and the Department of Statistics. Jason's work in "algebraic statistics" applies ideas from algebraic geometry and combinatorics to study statistical models. He will join us full-time next spring semester (Spring 2010). |
| 05 / 26 / 2009 |
| Formanek will retire. |
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| Professor Edward Formanek plans to retire at the end of this academic year. Ed has been a member of the department since 1978 and we're very grateful for all of his contributions. Congratulations, Ed! |
| 05 / 26 / 2009 |
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