News and Events
2005-2006
Award Received October, 2005
A national conference, Summit on the State of Latino Education,
organized by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed
Officials (NALEO), is being held in Washington, D.C. on October
11-13, 2005. One of the sponsoring organizations, Excelencia in
Education, in conjunction with its corporate sponsor the Wal-Mart
Foundation, has established an award designed to recognize academic
programs and departments that have increased Latino success in higher
education. Our Department has been singled out for the initial award.
We are being cited for our various efforts that include our Emerging
Scholars Program, strong participation in UTeach, our VIGRE
activities that includes SMMG and our multiple option degree
programs. These programs have led to our becoming the largest
producer of Hispanic mathematics majors in 2003-4 and ranking in the
top five since 2000. At the same time we are now recognized as one
of leading research departments in the country with an outstanding
collection of faculty members.
(This is not the first time that our undergraduate program
has received national attention. In a report prepared in 1999 by the
American Mathematical Society Task Force on Excellence in Mathematics
Scholarship, the Department of Mathematics was one of five
departments included as examples of departments that have
successfully integrated their research and instructional programs.
The report, entitled "Towards Excellence: Leading a Doctoral
Mathematics Department in the 21st Century", focused on the
Department's Emerging Scholar's Program and also highlighted the
Department's Actuarial Studies Program, Introduction to Research
Lectures for graduate students, and Saturday Morning Math Group for
local high school students.)
2004-2005
Luis Caffarelli has been awarded a Rolf
Schock Prize for 2005 "for his important contributions to the theory
of nonlinear partial differential equations."
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music have awarded these
prizes every other year since 1993. Awards for 2005 were made to
Jaakko Hintikka (Logic and Philosophy), Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue
Nishizawa (Visual Arts), and Mauricio kagel (Musical Arts).
Prior recipients of Rolf Schock Awards in the field of mathematics
are: Elias Stein (1993), Andrew Wiles (1995), Mikio Sato (1997), Yuri
Manin (1999), Elliott Lieb (2001) and Richard Stanley (2003).
See The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences page
for more information (and note the link to "Read more about the Laureates" at the bottom of that page.)
Cameron Gordon has been
elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,
Scotland's National Academy.
Election to Fellowship in the Society honors outstanding achievement
across all academic areas, professions, arts, commerce, industry and
public life. Corresponding Fellows are individuals who have achieved
considerable distinction within their own subject and profession and
who reside overseas.
The following website has further information regarding the RSE:
www.royalsoced.org.uk
Richard Kent has been named a
Harrington Dissertation Fellow for 2005-06. (The competition for this
prestigious award is intense: only two were awarded campuswide.)
John Durbin has been
selected as the Mathematics Department recipient of the College of
Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award for 2005-06.
Matilde Lalin (student of Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas) and
Luis Silvestre (student of Luis Caffarelli) have been named 2005 Liftoff
Fellows by the Clay Mathematics Institute.These awards are highly competitive: according to
the Clay Institute, only eighteen are made each year.
Frank Gerth III Dissertation Award Recipients:
Matilde Lalin, James Kelliher
2003-2004
Jack Xin is a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Xin is being recognized for his work on wave propagation in
multiscale media and application of differential equations to processing of sound. His work could help
improve the quality of sounds detected by hearing impaired people who rely on devices such as hearing aids.
Faculty, Graduate Student and Staff Awards for 2003-2004
The Department's Outstanding Teaching Awards
Faculty Award: Steve McAdam
Graduate Award: William Kalahurka
Teaching Excellence in Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences:
John Gilbert
Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Award Recipients:
Jason Callahan, Elaine Cozzi, Kevin Klonoff, James Rath, Charles Samuels
Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Award Recipients:
Ricardo Conceicao, Brian Katz, Ti Zhou
Frank Gerth III Dissertation Award Recipients:
Kenneth Baker, Clayton Petsche
Nathan Counts has been awarded the 2005 Texas Exes Teaching Award for graduate student
instructors in the College of Natural Sciences.
2002-2003
Faculty, Graduate Student and Staff Awards for 2002-2003
The Department's Teaching Excellence Award in undergraduate instruction:
Faculty Award: Brian Martensen
TA/AI Award: Kelly McKinnie
Teaching Excellence in Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences:
Oscar Gonzalez
Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Award Recipients:
Magdalena Czubak, Jason Deblois, Bennie Goetz, Laura Hitt, David Jedlicka
Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Award Recipients:
Rodrigo Castro, Jim Nolen, Faezeh Raei
Frank Gerth III Dissertation Award Recipients:
Ariel Pacetti, Ovidiu Savin
College of Natural Sciences Staff Excellence Award
Nancy Lamm
2001-2002
Faculty and Graduate Student Awards for 2001-2002
The Department's Teaching Excellence Award in undergraduate instruction for 2001-2002:
Faculty Award: Ziemowit Rzeszotnik
TA/AI Award: Ben McReynolds
Teaching Excellence in Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences:
David Saltman
Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Award Recipients:
Fernando Carreon, Eric Chesebro, Ryan Derby-Talbot, Betseygail Rand, Chris Sinclair
Frank Gerth III Dissertation Award Recipients:
Inwon Kim, Lewis Bowen
Aug, 2001
Associate Professor Kathy Davis has been selected as a member of the Academy of
Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at Austin, in recognition of
sustained and significant contributions to education, especially at the undergraduate
level. She is also the recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award for The
College of Engineering.
Associate Professor Lorenzo Sadun is the Mathematics recipient of
the College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award for 2000-01.
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May, 2001
The Dept. of
Mathematics has received VIGRE funding for July, 2001 - July 1, 2004 with possible
extension to July 1, 2006.
Karen Uhlenbeck is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Fernando
Rodriguez-Villegas has been awarded a Faculty Research Assignment Award
for 2001-2002.
April, 2000
Mike Starbird has been
selected as the recipient of the 1999-2000 Friars' Centennial Teaching
Award.
December 1st, 1999
March 2, 1999
Peter John is awarded the Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award
