Don Allen websites on visual understanding of
statistics
and physics was featured in the Math Forum Newletter: "The Math Forum@Drexel
publishes a newsletter once a week and we have chosen your site, Flash Demos
for
Understanding Statistics, to be featured in our October 13, 2003 issue."
He also attended a reception honoring Editors of Scholarly Journals, TAMU
University
Libraries, October 1, 2003.
Goong Chen was invited to the Department of Physics,
National University of Singapore, with airfare and
salary paid by the host, December 11-20, 2003.
He served as
Session Chair for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Quantum Information
Science, National University of Singapore, December 2003.
Paula Cohen served as co-organizer of the Texas A&M Number Theory Seminar.
Prabir Daripa, co-organizer "Three Minisymposiums on Fast and Efficient Methods for PDE & Applications," SIAM03 CSE Meeting, San Diego, February 2003.
Richard Ewing was awarded the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) Public Service Medal.
Member, Board of Directors, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2003.
Judy Gloyna, Editorial Assistant, member of the department since November 1996, was killed in a tragic automobile accident on November 9, 2003, at age 46. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church where she served as organist and music coordinator. She is survived by her husband Dennis and daughter Kay.
Grants awarded by the National Science Foundation:
Arthur Hobbs, Chair, Subcommittee on Legislative Affairs, 2003.
Peter Kuchment, Chair, AMS Special Session on Inverse
Problems and Tomography, Binghamton, NY, October 2003.
Organizer of the Mini-Workshop on mathematical modeling of photonic devices,
Texas A&M University, May
2003.
In a ceremony held April 24, 2003, Rm. 203, MSC, the Department of Mathematics was the recipient of the 2003 Executive VP and Provost's Diversity Awards for Group Achievement. This award consists of a plaque, public recognition and $5,000 which will be deposited in a discretionary departmental account.
Joe Pasciak, organized the Numerical Analysis Conference Honoring Professor Raytcho Lazarov on the Occasion Of His 60th Birthday, Texas A&M University, Jan 24-25, 2003.
Gilles Pisier, organizer (with Ed Effros), of a one
week
conference on Operator Spaces at CIRM (Luminy, France) June 23-27, 2003.
Organizer (with G. Skandalis), of a summer school on "Operator spaces, groups
and C*-algebras," Paris, July 1-10, 2003.
J. Maurice Rojas served as NSF Panelist: CAREER Program
(CISE division), 2003.
Co-Organizer (with Luis-Miguel Pardo of University of Cantabria, Spain),
Effective Analytic Geometry Over Complete Fields, special session at the joint
AMS-RSME Meeting, Seville, June 18 & 20, 2003.
Henry Schenck, NSF Panel Member, Washington D.C., January 7-10 2003.
N. Sivakumar, organizer, CAT Seminar Series, 2003.
Mike Stecher, Director of Ap-Calculus workshops for
high school instructors, Summer 2003.
(with P. Yasskin) Conducted Maple Workshop, Texas A&M, Summer 2003.
Zoran Sunik, selection and preparation of Team USA for International Mathematical Olympiad in Glasgow, Scotland, 2003, the team placed thord in the world.
Catherine Yan, member, NSF Panel for Combinatorics,
2003.
Co-organizer, CombinaTexas Conference of 2003 at Southwest Texas State
University, San Marcos, TX, April 5-6, 2003.
Philip Yasskin, Director of Summer Educational Enrichment in Math: a 2 week program for gifted middle school students (with Kuchment, Mogilevski, Manuel, Epstein, Hobbs and Gustafson), Summer 2003.
Jianxin Zhou has been named a member of the Feng Kang Lectures, China, Fall 2003.
Grants Awarded:
Marcelo Aguiar, NSF grant DMS-0302423 awarded in March 2003 to the proposal "Combinatorial Hopf Algebras" submitted to the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics Program at the National Science Foundation. This is a three year grant in the amount of $102,648. (The NSF granted additional support of the award DMS-0302423 (above) in the amount of $34,198 for student support from March 2004 to May 2005.)
Fall 2003 recipients of the Department of Mathematics awards for
At its March 28, 2003 meeting, the Texas A&M University Board of Regents approved the promotion of Ken Dykema, Tamás Erdélyi, and Jane F. Schielack to Professor.