News and Events, 2007

• UT-Austin/Portugal Collaboration
  The Department of Mathematics is participating a program of collaboration with several Portuguese Universities. This program includes teaching graduate students, postdocs and research collaboration. This collaboration is part of the International Collaboratory for Emerging Technology (Colab), which encompasses, Mathematics as well as Digital Media, Advanced Computing and Tecnology Innovation.
• 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 2006-2007. Shinko Harper and Jason Callahan are the recipients of Outstanding Teaching Awards. Emanuel Carneiro, Paul Fili, Alisa Havens, Joseph Hunt and Phil Monin receive this year's Frank Gerth III Teaching Excellence Awards. Nestor Guillen, Phil Monin and Chia-Liang Sun receive Frank Gerth III Graduate Excellence Awards. Elaine Cozzi, Jeremy Van Horn-Morris and Jason Deblois receive Frank Gerth III Dissertation Awards.
• Mathematics New Faculty
  The Department of Mathematics would like to welcome all of our new faculty and students. Eighteen new faculty members, Thomas Chen, Yingda Cheng, Geir Helleloid, David Helm, Eric Katz, Sanghyun Kim, Hun Kwon, Jennifer Mann, Natasa Pavlovic, Pamela Powell, James Rath, Alro Schurle, Henry Segerman, Mihai Sirbu, Elizabeth Stepp, Nicolay Tanushev, Gloria White and Benuto Zheng have joined the department this fall.
• Salerno Receives AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
  Adriana Salerno, a Ph.D. student in mathematics, has been awarded the AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowship for 2007. She will work at Voice of America for 10 weeks this summer under the sponsorship of the AMS.
• Spring 07 Awards
  We have 21 graduate students graduating from the Math Dept this summer, among them are 10 Ph.Ds, 4 masters in Math, 3 masters in Statistics and 4 Masters in Actuarial. E. Cozzi, J. Van Horn-Morris and J. Deblois win this year's Frank Gerth Dissertation Awards. D. Berry, M. North and M. Zou receive their service awards from the university.
• Harper, Klaff and Rodin Receive Awards
  Shinko Harper wins the College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, Benjamin Klaff receives the College of the Natural Sciences Council's Faculty Service Award and Altha Rodin wins the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Distinction in Teaching.
• J. Daniel and L. Vaaler Win a Hamilton Book Award
  James Daniel and Leslie Vaaler win a 2007 Hamilton Book Award for their book 'Mathematical Interest Theory'. Funded by the Co-op, the Hamilton Award is one of the highest honor of literary achievement given to published authors at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Ying receives Sloan Fellowship
  Lexing Ying has been awarded a 2007 Sloan Research Fellowship. Dr. Ying joined the department in September 2006 from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in the field of computational and applied mathematics.
• Uhlenbeck Receives AMS 2007 Steele Prize
  Karen Uhlenbeck has Received the 2007 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize was awarded on Saturday, January 6, 2007, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Petermichl wins the 2006 Salem Prize
  Stefanie Petermichel has been awarded the 2006 Salem Prize. The Salem Prize is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in the field of interest of Raphael Salem, primarily the theory of Fourier Series. The Mathematics Department now has two Salem prize winners on its faculty, William Beckner won the Salem prize in 1975.
• Starbird Receives Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award
  Professor Starbird has received the 2006 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. The prize citation honors Starbird for his creative, articulate, indefatigable, and an eloquent communication and promotion of mathematics.