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2022 Award Winners Honored at Annual Ceremony
May 17, 2022 – Six students and one postdoc were recognized for outstanding achievements at the recent Department of Mathematics annual awards ceremony. The 2022 B.F. Bryant Prize for Excellence in Teaching was shared by graduate students Colin Bloomfield, Ishan, and Samuel Rizzo. The award recognizes graduate teaching assistants who have demonstrated concern for and accomplishments in teaching, qualities...
Sifan Yu receives Summer Research Award
May 16, 2022 – Sifan Yu was the recipient of a Summer Research Award (SRA). The College of Arts and Science Summer Research Award program is designed to help graduate students with outstanding potential to accelerate progress on their research. SRAs provide funds for research expenses related to the doctoral thesis, other advanced research projects, or scholarly activities that...
Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli is this year’s Founder’s Medalist for the Graduate School
May 13, 2022 – Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, from Chennai, India, is this year’s Founder’s Medalist for the Graduate School. Founder’s Medal for First Honors is awarded for outstanding achievement in the graduating class. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s gifts to the university included endowment of this award, first given in 1877. Sri is graduating with a doctor of philosophy in mathematics. Elayavalli...
Denis Osin Selected as Fellow of the AMS
November 2, 2020 – Professor Denis Osin has been selected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Osin was selected for his contributions in geometric group theory, specifically groups acting on hyperbolic spaces. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Among...
Department of Mathematics Mourns the Passing of Stevenson Chair and Distinguished Professor Vaughan Jones
September 8, 2020 – Our dear colleague and friend Vaughan Jones died unexpectedly on September 6. All of us in the department are immensely saddened by this tragic loss. Professor Jones was a prominent and accomplished colleague, extraordinary friend, mentor, and teacher, and we will miss him deeply. When Professor Jones joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2011,...
Department Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
September 1, 2020 – The Department of Mathematics welcomes seven new colleagues this fall. The new group includes one senior lecturer, one lecturer, and five postdoctoral fellows. Senior Lecturer Blane Hollingsworth, received his Ph.D. in 2008 from Auburn University. His areas of interest are stochastic differential equations, probability/measure theory, dynamical systems, and recreational mathematics (game theory, logic). Five new...
New Book on Discrete Energy Optimizes Hardin-Saff Collaboration
January 17, 2020 – Professors Doug Hardin and Ed Saff have published a book that draws on their many years of collaboration in the area of discrete energy and optimal point configurations. Entitled Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets, this 670 page opus was co-authored with their former Vanderbilt student Sergiy Borodachov, now a professor at Towson University.
Blake Dunshee Receives Outstanding Teacher Award
December 26, 2019 – Blake Dunshee has been awarded the 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award by Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. The annual award recognizes exceptionally effective teaching by a graduate student with full responsibility for the courses they have taught. Dunshee has been the instructor of record for both Single-Variable Calculus I and Accelerated Single-Variable Calculus...
Ralph McKenzie Awarded Honorary Doctorate
December 10, 2019 – Distinguished Professor Ralph McKenzie was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Szeged in Hungary in recognition of the influence his mathematical work has had at the university. The Doctor Honoris Causa was conferred at a Ceremonial Senate Session marking the university’s annual Day of the University celebration on November 9, 2019. McKenzie...
13 Undergraduates Inducted Into Pi Mu Epsilon Society
December 3, 2019 – Thirteen undergraduate students were inducted into the Vanderbilt University Chapter of the Pi Mu Epsilon Society in November 2019. The new members are: Dylan Folsom, Lucy Gallop, Kevin Gomez, Jackson P. Knox, Connor Lehmacher, Jason Mitrovich, Janet Stefanov, Heng Sun, Yuxi Wen , Michael Wu, Meng Yuan, Timothy Zaklama, and Chenyu Zhang. Officers were also...