Inside UT Math
Recognition of Faculty and Graduate Students
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce the recipients of the Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Awards and the Department of Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2007-2008. Heather Van Ligten and Diane Radin are the recipients of Department of Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Award. Herivelto Borges Filho, Kris Clabes, Eric Staron, Brandy Guntel and Pippa Charters are the recipients of Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Award. Allison Bishop, Jin Hyuk Choi Yuan Yao and Kyudong Choi are the recipients of Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Award. Ricado Alonso, Magda Czubak, Alex Kahle, Mark Luxton and Andrea Young are the recipients of Frank Gerth III Dissertation Awards.
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce the recipients of the Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Awards and the Department of Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2007-2008. Heather Van Ligten and Diane Radin are the recipients of Department of Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Award. Herivelto Borges Filho, Kris Clabes, Eric Staron, Brandy Guntel and Pippa Charters are the recipients of Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Award. Allison Bishop, Jin Hyuk Choi Yuan Yao and Kyudong Choi are the recipients of Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Award. Ricado Alonso, Magda Czubak, Alex Kahle, Mark Luxton and Andrea Young are the recipients of Frank Gerth III Dissertation Awards.Mathematics New Faculty
The Department of Mathematics would like to welcome all of our new faculty and students. Thirteen new faculty members, Jane Arledge, Clayton Bjorland, Gerard Brunick, Chi Han Chan, Thomas Chen, David Fithian, John Hammond, Florent Jouve, Hector Lomeli, Brett Milburn, Hossein Namazi, Kui Ren and Stephanie Somersille have joined the department this fall.
The Department of Mathematics would like to welcome all of our new faculty and students. Thirteen new faculty members, Jane Arledge, Clayton Bjorland, Gerard Brunick, Chi Han Chan, Thomas Chen, David Fithian, John Hammond, Florent Jouve, Hector Lomeli, Brett Milburn, Hossein Namazi, Kui Ren and Stephanie Somersille have joined the department this fall.
UTeach
The Mathematics Department participates in UTeach, the
nationally recognized teacher certification program developed and run
cooperatively by the College of Natural Science and College of
Education. UTeach integrates actual classroom experience and
quality education in mathematics and sciences.
The Mathematics Department participates in UTeach, the
nationally recognized teacher certification program developed and run
cooperatively by the College of Natural Science and College of
Education. UTeach integrates actual classroom experience and
quality education in mathematics and sciences.
Emerging Scholars
The Emerging Scholars Program is a nationally known program
for furthering the education of students from
non-traditional backgrounds. Students from high schools with
a weak mathematics program find themselves challenged by the
demands of an honors environment. And, they succeed in
Mathematics as well as in the University.
The Emerging Scholars Program is a nationally known program
for furthering the education of students from
non-traditional backgrounds. Students from high schools with
a weak mathematics program find themselves challenged by the
demands of an honors environment. And, they succeed in
Mathematics as well as in the University.
Millenium Lectures
In May of 2000, a prize fund of $7 million was announced,
for the solution of seven Milleniuum Problems In
Mathematics. In Spring of 2001 the Math Department at UT Austin offered a
series of seven Millenium lectures. The lectures were open
to the community, and offered the public a
vision of modern mathematics.
In May of 2000, a prize fund of $7 million was announced,
for the solution of seven Milleniuum Problems In
Mathematics. In Spring of 2001 the Math Department at UT Austin offered a
series of seven Millenium lectures. The lectures were open
to the community, and offered the public a
vision of modern mathematics.
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2:00p RLM 12.166 Topology
John Berge: On locating and identifying minimal complexity genus two Heegaard diagrams of compact, closed, orientable 3-manifolds. 3:00p RLM 10.176 Jr Analysis Veronica Quitalo: Some Results on Fully Nonlinear Equations 3:00p RLM 9.166 Math Finance Huyên PHAM: Optimal portfolio/consumption choice in a liquidity risk model with random trading dates | 2
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Matt Young: Quadratic twists of a modular L-function 3:30p RLM 9.166 Geometry TBA: TBA | 5
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Mark Schroder: Optimal debt contracts and product market competition with exit and entry 1:00p RLM 10.176 Analysis Alessio Figalli: Regularity results for optimal transport maps on Riemannian manifolds 1:30p RLM 9.166 Probability Steven Shreve: Double Skorokhod Map and Reneging Real-Time Queues 2:00p ACE 6.304 ICES Gustavo Gioia : Nikuradse meets Kolmogorov, or: How to derive the diagram from the spectrum | 6 |
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Events Today
2:00p 9.166 Algebra, Number Theory, & Combinatorics
Matt Young: Quadratic twists of a modular L-function 2:00 pm in RLM 9.166 Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics Seminar
Quadratic twists of a modular L-function
Matt Young (TAMU)
The quadratic twists of a modular L-function have been intensely studied by many researchers. Of particular interest is the question of (non)vanishing of central values of these twists. In this talk, I will discuss some recent results (joint with K. Soundararajan) on the second moment of these central values. The second moment is of interest because it is a useful tool for studying nonvanishing. We show, assuming GRH, that this second moment conforms to the conjectured asymptotic coming from random matrix theory (due to Keating and Snaith). Unconditionally, we obtain a lower bound of the conjectured size.
Submitted by geir@math.utexas.edu
Matt Young: Quadratic twists of a modular L-function 2:00 pm in RLM 9.166 Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics Seminar
Quadratic twists of a modular L-function
Matt Young (TAMU)
The quadratic twists of a modular L-function have been intensely studied by many researchers. Of particular interest is the question of (non)vanishing of central values of these twists. In this talk, I will discuss some recent results (joint with K. Soundararajan) on the second moment of these central values. The second moment is of interest because it is a useful tool for studying nonvanishing. We show, assuming GRH, that this second moment conforms to the conjectured asymptotic coming from random matrix theory (due to Keating and Snaith). Unconditionally, we obtain a lower bound of the conjectured size.
Submitted by geir@math.utexas.edu
3:30p 9.166 Geometry
TBA: TBA 3:30 pm in RLM 9.166 Geometry Seminar
TBA
TBA (UT Austin - Mathematics)
There is no detailed description for this event.
Submitted by lizbeth@math.utexas.edu
TBA: TBA 3:30 pm in RLM 9.166 Geometry Seminar
TBA
TBA (UT Austin - Mathematics)
There is no detailed description for this event.
Submitted by lizbeth@math.utexas.edu
Conference Announcement
Future Directions in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Dec 10 - 13, 2008
A meeting honoring Luis Caffarelli on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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