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Award Winners Honored at Annual Ceremony
May 23, 2016 – Four students and one postdoc were honored for outstanding achievements at the Department of Mathematics recent annual award ceremony. The 2016 B.F. Bryant Prize for Excellence in Teaching was shared by graduate students Corey Jones and Colin Klaus. In announcing the award, Associate Director of Graduate Studies Doug Hardin cited the outstanding ratings both of...
International Conference on Evolution Equations, May 16-20
May 10, 2016 – The Department of Mathematics hosted the 31st Annual Shanks Lecture and International Conference on Evolution Equations from May 16 to 20, 2016. The conference focused on recent developments in partial differential equations connected to evolution problems. Topics included fluid dynamics, free boundary problems, dispersive equations, parabolic equations, Einstein?s equations, and non-linear wave equations. Part of...
Bruce Hughes Receives Nordhaus Teaching Award
December 29, 2015 – Professor Bruce Hughes is the recipient of the 2015 Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Hughes received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1981 and joined the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics in 1985. He has taught courses in a wide variety of subjects, ranging from elementary calculus to advanced upper-level undergraduate...
Ralph McKenzie Selected as Fellow of the AMS
September 7, 2015 – Distinguished Professor Ralph McKenzie has been named as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2016. The society recognized McKenzie for his contributions to universal algebra and for mathematical exposition. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics....
Disconzi’s Model of Cosmic Stickiness Favors “Big Rip” Demise of Universe
July 3, 2015 – A new mathematical model of cosmic stickiness developed by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Marcelo Disconzi in collaboration with two Vanderbilt physics professors is receiving widespread media coverage after being featured in the University's "Research News @ Vanderrbilt."
Paper Co-authored by Phil Crooke Wins Best Manuscript Award
June 15, 2015 – A paper co-authored by Prof. Phil Crooke has won a prestigious award given annually by Innovations, the official journal of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). The award, which includes a $2,000 prize, is given for the best manuscript from those that were submitted to the journal after being presented to the...
Glenn Webb Honored with Special Issue
May 26, 2015 – Professor Glenn Webb has been honored with the dedication of a special issue of Mathematical Sciences and Bioengineering (MBE). Volume 12, Number 4 (2015) of the journal is dedicated to Webb in honor of his 70th birthday.
Recent Advances in Kohler Geometry Conference, May 18-22
May 6, 2015 – The Department of Mathematics will host an international conference on Recent Advances in Kohler Geometry, May 18-22, 2015. The conference is held in conjunction with the 30th Annual Shanks Lecture. This year’s featured Shanks Lecturer is Fields Medalist Professor Shing-Tung Yau of Harvard University. Kohler geometry is an area of mathematics that has seen a...
Student Award Winners Announced at Annual Ceremony
May 5, 2015 – Two graduate students and one undergraduate were recognized recently at the Department of Mathematics annual student awards ceremony. This year?s graduate honors went to Yuanzhen Shao for outstanding research and to Michael Northington for excellence in teaching. Mathematics senior Paul Ponmattam was recognized for undergraduate achievement. The Bjarni J?nsson Prize for Research was awarded to...
Thirteenth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, May 1-7
April 15, 2015 – The Department of Mathematics will host the Thirteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras May 1-7, 2015. The theme of the 2015 event is Operator Algebras and Approximation Properties of Groups. The Spring Institute is a combination of spring school and international research conference. During the school part of the meeting several...