Department of Mathematics Newsletter
News from Academic Year 2009-2010
-
Dr. Karin Melnick,
formerly at Yale University, joins the department as an
Assistant Professor in fall of 2009.
-
Dr. Wojtek Czaja and
Dr. Dio Margetis have been promoted
to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, effective summer 2009.
Congratulations!
- Professors Carlos Berenstein
and David Lay retired at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year
and are now Professors Emeriti.
- Professor Raymond Johnson
retired at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year and has taken
a new position as W. L. Moody, Jr. Visiting Professor of Mathematics at
Rice University in Houston.
A special program was held in his honor on June 8, 2009.
For more information, see here.
- Of the four Regional
Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences sponsored by the CBMS
(Conference Board of the Mathmatical Sciences) and NSF in Summer 2009,
two had principal lecturers from the Maryland Math Department,
Jonathan Rosenberg and
Scott Wolpert. Their lectures have been published
as volumes 111 and 113 of the CBMS
Regional Conference Series in Mathematics book series.
- We regret to report that Professor Emeritus Harold P. Edmundson passed away
on July 9, 2009. Professor Edmundson held a joint appointment in Computer Science
and the Mathematics Department from 1967 until 1991, when he retired.
- The Department has been given a generous donation by James Kaplan, who
received his Ph.D. in the department in 1970. The gift will be used
for partial travel support for graduate students seeking Ph.D.s
in MATH, STAT, or AMSC who wish to travel to scientific conferences.
Thank you Dr. Kaplan!
- Professor Jeffrey Adams is
this year's recipient of the
Kirwan Faculty
Research and Scholarship Prize, which is awarded annually to a Maryland
faculty member for a ``highly significant work of research, scholarship,
or artistic creativity completed withing the past three years''. Adams
received this prize for leading the international project
``Atlas of Lie
Groups and Representations'', which is developing and applying
revolutionary computer techniques to the theoretical study of symmetry.
The ultimate goal of this project is to solve one of the most important
problems in mathematics, that of the Unitary Dual for Representations of
Real Lie Groups.
- Congratulations to Associate Professor Dio Margetis,
who received a highly coveted NSF
CAREER award in support of his research on Thermodynamic
and kinetic approaches for epitaxial material systems.
This grant is supported by both the Division of Mathematical Sciences and
the Division of Materials Research.
- Professor
Larry Washington
was the 2009 winner of the
John Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching, from the
the
Maryland/DC/Viriginia section of the
Mathematical Association of America.
- We regret to report that Professor Dennis Healy passed
away at the age of 52 on
September 3, 2009. Aside from his duties in the Mathematics Department and
the Norbert Wiener Center, Professor Healy served as a program
manager for DARPA and a Research Program Consultant for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at NIH.
- Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat has been named
as the winner of this year's Michael Brin Prize for research in
dynamical systems. The goal of
the prize is to recognize mathematicians who have made substantial impact
to research in dynamical systems at an early stage of their careers.
- We regret to report that Professor Emeritus Bert Hubbard, who
retired from the department in 1991, passed
away at the age of 81 on October 3, 2009.
- We regret to report that Professor Israel Gohberg of Tel-Aviv University,
a frequent distinguished visitor to the department, passed
away at the age of 81 on October 13, 2009.
- Professor John Benedetto was invited to
give the 35th William J. Spencer Lecture at Kansas State University,
November 12, 2009.
- We regret to report that our former colleague
Dan Rudolph, who
moved to Colorado State in 2005 to assume
the Albert C. Yates Chair of Mathematics,
passed away
of ALS on February 4, 2010 at the age of 60.
A conference
will be held in his memory in April.
- In Spring 2010, the department's Dynamical Systems Group is hosting a
special semester on celestial mechanics and Hamiltonian systems,
organized by Vadim Kaloshin and Joe Galante.
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