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Great news. We have 3 of the top 25 seniors at SIUC! Please join us in congratulating our students who won Most Distinguished Seniors awards for 2011: Jordan Kabat, Jamie Pfister, and Lucas Pulley. See more...
Congratulations to Kathleen Pericak-Spector who is 2011 Outstanding Teacher in the College of Science.
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Jerzy Kocik has been awarded the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for an article, written jointly with Andrzej Solecki, titled "Disentangling a Triangle" and published in the March 2009 issue of American Mathematical Monthly. The award was announced at the MathFest 2010 Prize Session held in August in Pittsburgh, PA.
Professor George Parker retired this fall. Here are some pictures.
Congratulations! To Professor Dashun Xu and Professor MingQing Xiao, who have both been awarded a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation. They will receive funding, in collaboration with Professor John D. Reeve of the SIUC Zoology Department. This grant will be carried out in collaboration with Professor James Cronin of Louisiana State University.
Congratulations to Professor Scott Spector!!Professor Spector has been awarded a three year NSF grant for his proposal "Analysis of Stability and Instability for Elastic Materials"
2011 Fulbright Award
Congratulations to Wesley Calvert who has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the Fall of 2011. More infornation can be found here.
2011 Most Distinguished Seniors Awards
Please join us in congratulating our students who won Most Distinguished Seniors Awards for 2011:
Jordan Kabat of Waltonville, IL;
College of Engineering, Major: Mechanical Engineering and Minor: Mathematics;
Jamie Pfister of Roanoke, IL;
College of Education and Human Services, Major: Mathematics, and Minor: Physics;
Lucas Pulley of Gibson City, IL;
College of Science, Major: Mathematics
The rest of the recipient list may be found here.
2011 Outstanding Teacher in the College of Science
Once again, Kathleen Pericak-Spector has won the Outstanding Teacher in the College of Science award for 2011. She won this award for the first time in 1997.
IL-MO Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
was held November 13th on the SIUC campus this year. We had a great turnout for the conference and hope to see some of you again next year.
Congratulations ...
To Professor Dashun Xu and Professor MingQing Xiao, who have both been awarded a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation. They will receive funding, in collaboration with Professor John D. Reeve of the SIUC Zoology Department, for "Collaborative research: Vulnerable host stages, development time and host-parasitoid stability - The first experimental test". This grant will be carried out in collaboration with Professor James Cronin of Louisiana State University.
Catalyst Summer Institute
Algebra Project/Young People's Project SIUC Summer Institute program provided a new math experience for some Illinois and Ohio high school students. This is the first interaction of the long term NSF funded grant program run by Gregory Budzban and Lee McEwan to develop an innovative way to learn mathematics.
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Congratulations ...
To Professor Joseph Hundley and Professor Bhaskar Bhattacharya, who have each been awarded three-year research grants from the National Science Foundation.
Professor Hundley will receive funding for the project "Integral Representation of Langlands L Functions".
Professor Bhattacharya will receive funding for the project "Constrained Statistical Inference and Information Theory".
Isaac Newton Institute Visit
Professor Salah Mohammed visited the Isaac Newton Institute in the spring semester. While he was there he visited several universities and was invited to present several talks.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award
Professor Yuri Gliklikh from Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia, has received a Fulbright Visiting Scholar award to visit the Mathematics Department for the three-month period February through April 2011. Professor Gliklikh is a world authority on stochastic geometry and its applications in mathematical physics. He will be working alongside SIUC Professor Salah Mohammed.
Honors Day 2010
Winners of several Awards were announced April 11th at the annual Honors Day Ceremonies.
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