Promotions
Professor Scot Adams was promoted to the rank of
Full Professor effective September 2001. Scot's research area is dynamics
of Lie groups.
Professor Victor Reiner was promoted to the rank
of Full Professor effective September 2001. Vic's research area is combinatorics.
Professor Fernando Reitich was promoted to the rank
of Full Professor effective September 2001. Fernando's research area is
partial differential equations and applied mathematics.
Professor Dihua Jiang was promoted to the rank of
Associate Professor with tenure effective September 2001. Dihua's research
area is number theory.
Professor Jiaping Wang was promoted to the rank of
Associate Professor with tenure effective September 2001. Jiaping's research
area is differential geometry.
Awards and Recognitions
Professor Douglas Arnold will give an invited plenary
address at the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in
Beijing in August 2002. For more about Professor Arnold and his work see
the sections "Welcoming Incoming Faculty"
and "News from the IMA."
Professor Bernardo Cockburn will give an invited
plenary address on "Discontinuous Finite Element Methods" at
the annual meeting of GAMM (Gesselschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und
Mechanik, the German counterpart of SIAM) being held in Augsburg, Germany,
in March 2002.
Professor Nicolai Krylov was awarded the Alexander
von Humboldt Prize for Senior U.S. Scientists for the year 2001.
Professor Mitchell Luskin will give an invited lecture
at the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in Beijing
in August 2002. Professor Luskin will present his research on mathematical
models, numerical analysis, and computation of crystal microstructure
and phase transitions.
Professor Mikhail Safonov is an invited plenary speaker
at the regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society to be held
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 12-13, 2002.
Distinguished McKnight Professor Vladimir Sverak
will give the seventh Avron Douglis Memorial Lecture at the University
of Maryland, College Park, on April 12, 2002. Previous speakers were Professors
L. Caffarelli, L. Evans, P. Lax, T.-P. Liu, L. Nirenberg and H. Weinberger.
Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor Dominik Schoetzau
is one of the recipients of the Tenth Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis.
This is an international prize awarded by the Oxford University Computing
Laboratory to outstanding young numerical analysts for whom the age restriction
this year was that the person be born after January 1, 1970.
Our alumnus, Professor Rui Fernandes of Technical
University, Lisbon, was awarded the Gulbenkian Basic Science Award for
his paper "Connections in Poisson Geometry I: Holonomy and Invariants,"
published in the Journal of Differential Geometry, vol. 54 (2000). This
is the most prestigious award in Science in Portugal, and is given on
a rotating three-year basis to Basic Science, Social Sciences and Applied
Sciences by the Gulbenkian Foundation. Fernandes received his Ph.D. in
1994 under Professor Peter Olver.
Professor Giovanni Leoni, currently at the Universitˆ
di Alessandria, who received his Ph.D. here in 1995 under the direction
of Regents' Professor James Serrin, has been awarded the Bartoletti Prize
for the year 2001 by the Italian Mathematical Society (Unione Matematica
Italiana), for the best young Italian mathematician under the age of 33.
Previous winners have included Giuseppe DaPrato, Giorgio Talenti, Sergio
Spagnolo, Mariano Giaquinta, Angelo Anile, Luigi Ambrosio and Alessandra
Lunardi.
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