Wolfgang Bangerth and Guido Kanschat
together with Ralf Hartmann from the Institute of
Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, Braunschweig, Germany were awarded
"The 2007 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software" for their deal. II - a
General Purpose Object Oriented Finite Element Library. The award will
be presented at the Congress of International Council for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) this July in Zurich, Switzerland.
Harold Boas was presented the
Lester R. Ford Award at the Summer MathFest in San Jose, Calif.
Established in 1964, the awards, consisting of a citation and cash
prize, are presented by the Mathematical Association of America for
articles of expository excellence published in the /American
Mathematical Monthly/. Boas received this prestigious award in
recognition for his article, "Reflections on the Arbelos," /American
Mathematical Monthly/, vol. 113, no. 3, 2006, pp. 236-249.
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is the
world's largest professional society that focuses on mathematics
accessible at the undergraduate level.
Yalchin Efendiev
organized 5 mini-sessions (joint with Y. Gorb) at the 44th Annual Technical
Meeting Society of Engineering Science, Texas A&M University,
October 21-24, 2007.
Distinguished Professor Richard Ewing, member of the department since 1992, died
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at age 61 after suffering a heart attack. For the
past 15 years,
Dr. Ewing has dedicated most of his professional life
to the Department, the College, and the University.
Through his tireless efforts as Dean and later as Vice President
for Research, he oversaw the substantial growth in intellectual
talent and research infrastructure here at Texas A&M.
He was a working colleague and friend to many of us here
in the Department and he will be sorely missed.
Ciprian Foias has been promoted to the rank of
Distinguished Professor in our department effective September 1, 2007. Dr.
Foias has made many fundamental contributions to both operator theory and
fluid mechanics. He has authored over 400 peer reviewed articles and 11
graduate-level books. He has also directed over 20 Ph.D. students. His major
awards include the Norbert Wiener Prize (1995) and the Bela Szokefalvi-Nagy
Memorial Medal (2000). His promotion to Distinguished Professor here at A&M is
in recognition of his long and extremely productive career.
Distinguished Professor Ciprian Foias will receive the Association of Former
Students
University Level Distinguished Achievement Award in Research.
This is the highest level research award offered by the
University. With over 400 publications in refereed journals,
Dr. Foias has made fundamental contributions to the fields
of operator theory and nonlinear partial differential equations.
William Johnson has been awarded the prestigious 2007
Stefan Banach Medal by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Below is the award citation
from the Polish Academy Web site:
Professor Johnson is one
of the most outstanding contemporary mathematicians pursuing
studies in the field of functional analysis and its applications.
He is an author of over 100 scientific papers.
His works have made significant contribution to mathematical
sciences pointing to development directions of various branches
of linear and non-linear functional analysis such as:
the global and local theory of Banach spaces, the theory
of Banach structures and symmetric spaces, the theory of
linear operators in Banach spaces, the theory of Lipschitz
functions. The scope of his scientific activity encompasses
also the theory of probability and its links with the theory
of Banach spaces. Many of his important mathematical discoveries
have been made in cooperation with other scholars.
He also inspired publication of many works in the area
of mathematics. Prof. Johnson established a leading
research center dealing with functional analysis and
the theory of probability at Texas A&M University, where
he heads a special department. Prof. Johnson has cooperated
with Polish mathematicians for over 40 years.
Dr. Johnson will travel to Poland this summer to receive his award.
Greg Klein, a lecturer in
our department, has been selected to receive the 2007 Distinguished
Achievement College-Level Awards in Teaching from
The Association of Former Students.
Matthew Papanikolas
research was the subject of part of a semi-annual Séminaire Bourbaki lecture.
F. Pellarin, "Aspects de l'indépendance algébrique en caractéristique non nulle [d'aprés Anderson, Brownawell, Denis, Papanikolas, Thakur, Yu, ...]"
Paris, France, Séminaire Bourbaki, March 2007.
Joseph Pasciak is the recipient of the
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering 2007
(CMMSE2007) prize for "Excellence in Research".
Frank Sottile was the recipient
of the US Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow . (Attended the Japanese-American
Frontiers of Science, Kanagawa, Japan, November 29-December 4, 2007.)
Jaime Vykukal gave birth to a baby girl
(Jillian Marie) on April 12th around 1 something in the afternoon. She weighed
9 lbs, 8 oz, mother and daughter are doing fine.
Catherine Yan serves on the
Editorial Board for Advances in Applied Mathematics, since November 2007.
Grants/Contracts Awarded:
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G. Donald Allen, THECB (Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board):
"High quality algebra II instruction,"
$88,197, June 1, 2007 to August 31, 2008.
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G. Donald Allen, THECB (Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board): "Course redesign for math 1324," (PI
and Director: G. Donald Allen) $349,827, TAMRF #0701594, July 20, 2007 to
August 31, 2009.
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Wolfgang Bangerth,
DoE Grant 00056472: "3-D deep penetration neutron imaging of thick absorbing and
diffusive objects using transport theory," (with Jean Ragusa, Department of
Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University) $283,093,
May 1, 2007 to Apri 30, 2010.
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Wolfgang Bangerth, NSF Grant: "A framework for
developing novel detection systems focused on
interdicting shielded HEU," (Co-PI; PI: Warren Miller, Texas A&M) $7,496,076,
November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2012.
Note: Each of the 4 co-PIs leads one sub-project. I lead the "Radiation
transport modeling and inversion" subproject that consists, in addition to
myself, of Jean-Luc Guermond, Guido Kanschat, Peter Kuchment (Department of
Mathematics), Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger (Computer Science), Marvin
Adams, Jean Ragusa (Nuclear Engineering).
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Ioan Bejenaru (PI),
NSF Grant: "Schrödinger maps and related problems," DMS-0738442, $89,000,
July 2007 to July 2010.
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Sue Geller, PI,
NSF Grant: "Undergraduate student travel to conferences," DMS-0714549, $15,038,
2007.
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Jean-Luc Guermond, PI,
Guido Kanschat, Co-PI, and Raytcho Lazarov, Co-PI,
NSF Grant: "Discontinuous Galerkin methods for PDEs with heterogeneous
coefficients," DMS-0713829, $300,000, August 2007 to August 2010.
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William Johnson and Gilles
Pisier, PIs,
NSF Grant: "Geometry of Banach spaces and of operator spaces," DMS-0503688,
$882,492, June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2010.
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William Johnson, PI
NSF Grant: "Collaborative research: Embeddings of finite metric spaces - a
geometric approach to efficient algorithms," DMS-0501256 (MSPA-MCS),
(S. Arora, M. Charikar, and M. Gromov, Principal Investigators)
$135,000 for Texas A&M, July 15, 2005 to August 31, 2008.
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William Johnson, David Larson,
Gilles Pisier, and Joel Zinn,
PIs, NSF Grant: "Workshop in
Analysis and Probability," DMS-0532508 (SM), $307,986 for three years.
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William Johnson and G. Schechtman, PIs,
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation: "Topics in the Geometry of Banach
Spaces," BSF-2006027, $148,352 for four year (through the Weizmann Institute
of Science).
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Guido Kanschat , Co-PI and Warren Miller (NEEN), PI
NSF-DNDO Grant: A Framework for Developing Novel Detection Systems Focused on
Interdicting Shielded HEU, 2007.
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Peter Kuchment, PI, NSF Grant:
"Mathematical methods for novel modalities of medical imaging", DMS-0715090
$55,905, June 1, 2007 to August 31, 2009.
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Raytcho Lazarov, PI and
Joseph Pasciak, Co-PI,
LLNL: "Computational issues of neutron transport," $49,800, June 1, 2007 to
December 30, 2007.
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Laura Matusevich, PI,
NSF Grant: "Multivariate hypergeometric functions and equations," DMS-0703866,
$146,741 (estimated), June 2007 to May 2010.
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Laura Matusevich, PI, and Frank
Sottile, Co-PI, NSF Grang: "Summer School on Applicable Algebraic Geometry:
Additional Funding," DMS-0704355, $25,000, Summer 2007.
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Laura Matusevich,
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications: "Funding for IMA Summer School
on Applicable Algebraic Geometry," supplied by the IMA, $70,000 (estimated),
Summer 2007. Co-Organizers: Frank Sottile, Thorsten Theobald.
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Guergana Petrova, Co-PI,
Bulgarian Science Fund Grant: "Mathematical methods and algorithms for computed
tomography," VU-I-303/2007, BG LV 20,000, October 1, 2007 to
September 30, 2010.
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Guergana Petrova, PI,
IMA Participating Institutions Conference Grant: "Approximation and learning
in high dimensions," $4,000, October 19-21, 2007.
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Guergana Petrova, PI,
NSF Conference Grant: "Approximation and learning in high dimensions,"
DMS-0708470, $15,000, July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008.
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Guergana Petrova,
Travel Grant: SIAM, ICIAM, $1,300, July 16-20, 2007.
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Guergana Petrova, PI,
ARO MURI Grant: "Model classes, approximation, and metrics for dynamic
processing of urban terrain data," W911NF-07-1-0185, $201,000,
May 1, 2007 to April 30, 2010.
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Mike Pilant,
Partial funding to organize First Annual Doha Conference on Applied
Mathematics and Computational Science, $30,000, 2007.
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Bojan Popov, Co-PI,
Conference funding for Approximation and Learning
in High Dimensions from Texas A&M, IMA and NSF, $23000, October 19-21, 2007.
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William Rundell,
NSF Grant: "Reconstruction algorithms for inverse obstacle problems,"
DMS-0715060, $260,500, July 2007 to July 2010.
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Henry Schenck, NSF Grant: Applied Math "Surface
modeling, approximation theory, and coding theory," September 1, 2007 to
August 31, 2010, $65,799.
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Henry Schenck,
NSA Grant: "Applied commutative algebra," H98230-07-1-0052, January 1, 2007 to
January 1, 2009, $30,000.
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Frank Sottile,
NSF Grant: "Applicable algebraic geometry: real solutions, applications, and
combinatorics," DMS-0701050, $202,895, September 1, 2007 to August 31, 2010.
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Sarah Witherspoon,
NSA Grant: "Cohomology, deformations, and representations of algebras,",
$38,895, February 2007 to February 2009.
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Catherine Yan,
NSF Grant: "Combinatorial patterns and structures," DMS-0653846, $117,273,
September 01, 2007 to August 31, 2010.
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Catherine Yan,
NSA Grant: "CombinaTexas: A Combinatorics Conference in the South-Central U.S.,"
$14,607, November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2009.
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Philip Yasskin,
NSF Grant: "Collaborative Proposal: Maplets for Calculus," DMS-0737248, $73,144,
January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010.
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Jianxin Zhou, PI,
NSF Grant: "Computational theory and methods for finding multiple
solutions to differential systems," DMS-0713872, $181,270, July 10, 2007 to
June 30, 2010.
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Joel Zinn, PI,
NSA Grant: "Inequalities and limit theorems in probability with applications,"
$51,503, December 1, 2007 to November 30, 2009.
At its March 29, 2007 meeting, the Texas A&M University Board of Regents
approved the promotion of Maurice Rojas to Professor and
Andrew Comech,
Peter Howard, Dmitry
Panchenko, and Bojan Popov
to Associate Professor with tenure.
Fall 2007 recipients of the Department of
Mathematics awards for
Outstanding Staff
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Cara Barton
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Judy Muzny
Outstanding Service
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Harold Boas
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Philip Yasskin
Outstanding Teaching
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Maurice Rojas
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Mike Stecher