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Seven New Postdocs Join the Department
September 24, 2013 – The Department of Mathematics has a strong postdoctoral program that attracts outstanding young researchers from top universities. Seven new postdoctoral fellows joined the department this fall, bringing the total number of postdocs to 19. Arnaud Brothier received his Ph.D. in 2011 at the Université Diderot. His research interests are in von Neumann algebras. Yago Antolin...
Workshop Explores Quantum Symmetries
September 11, 2013 – The Department of Mathematics will host a two-day DARPA and Shanks Workshop on “Quantum Symmetries” October 26-27, 2013. Several workshop participants will report on progress on DARPA funded research projects. Other talks will cover areas that could be broadly described as quantum symmetries. Speakers will include Uffe Haagerup of the University of Copenhagen; Vaughan Jones...
Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic 2013
July 23, 2013 – The Department of Mathematics hosted the Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic 2013 Conference July 28 through August 1. TACL 2013 was held in conjunction with the 27th Annual Shanks Lectures. Studying logics via semantics is a well-established and very active branch of mathematical logic, with many applications, in computer science and elsewhere. The area...
Grad Students Secure Grants for Summer Programs
May 22, 2013 – Two Department of Mathematics graduate students have received travel grants to attend research programs and conferences in the U.S. and abroad this summer. Emily Marshall, a fourth-year graduate student, was awarded an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute grant from the National Science Foundation to study at Monash University in Australia for two months from...
Student Award Winners Honored at Annual Ceremony
May 15, 2013 – Three graduate students and one undergraduate student were recognized at the Department of Mathematics’ annual student awards ceremony held recently. The Bjarni Jónsson Prize for Research was awarded jointly to Alexander Wires and William Young. The prize, which recognizes graduate students for exceptional research in mathematics, was established in honor of Distinguished Professor of Mathematics,...
Larry Schumaker Named SIAM Fellow
April 24, 2013 – Stevenson Professor Larry Schumaker has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is one of only 33 mathematicians named as SIAM Fellows this year. The SIAM Fellows program honors members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the discipline. Schumaker was selected...
Ed Saff Elected to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
April 23, 2013 – Professor Ed Saff, a member of Vanderbilt?s Mathematics Department since 2001, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. According to Stefan Vodenicharov, president of the academy, Saff was selected in recognition of ?our high esteem for his merits and activities as a world-renowned scientist in the field of mathematics and...
Former Postdoc Wins CNRS Bronze Medal
March 26, 2013 – Romain Tessera, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2013 Bronze Medal in Mathematics by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The CNRS Bronze Medal recognizes a researcher’s first work, which makes that person a specialist with talent in a particular field. It is intended to...
Eight Faculty Members Named as AMS Fellows
November 12, 2012 – Eight Vanderbilt mathematicians have been named as members of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). AMS is the world’s largest society dedicated to mathematical research, scholarship and education. The new fellowship program was established to recognize members “who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of...
Alex Powell Receives Nordhaus Award for Teaching
November 8, 2012 – Associate Professor Alex Powell is the recipient of the 2012 Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. This is the first time since the award was established in 1982 that a Department of Mathematics faculty member has received it. Powell received his B.S. from Rutgers University in 1997 with a double major in electrical...