Honors and Awards
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Lisa Termine has been appointed to the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford. (April 2008)
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Results are in for the Spring 2008 Calculus Competition.
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Thomas DeFranco is the recipient of the 2008 AAUP Excellence Award in Teaching Innovation. (March 2008)
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Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded a three year grant for research on "Random, Stochastic, and Self-similar Equations." The grant will be funded jointly by the Probability and Analysis Programs in the Division of Mathematical Sciences. (March 2008)
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Postdoctoral Fellow Matthew Cecil was honored by the UConn Alpha Lambda Delta chapter as Instructor of the Year for 2007/08.
The Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for first year students. (February 2008)
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Evarist Gine has been chosen to receive one of the Provost's Research Excellence Awards this year. (February 2008)
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Richard Bass has been designated a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. (January 2008)
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Vadim Olshevsky has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal of Linear and Multilinear Algbera for a period of five years. Olshevsky is also on the editorial board of four other
publications: Linear Algebra and its Applications, Integral Equations and Operator Theory, ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, and the Birkhauser book series on Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. (December 2007)
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Richard Bass has been appointed to be the next editor for the fields of Probability and Statistics of the prestigious journal Transactions and Memoirs of the AMS. His tenure as editor begins on February of 2008. (September 2007)
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Alexander Teplyaev has been awarded in the prestigious Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to work on "Stochastic and self-similar equations" with Professor M. Rockner of the University of Bielefeld. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stageresearchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projectsof their own choice in Germany. (July 2007)
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Sarah Glaz has been chosen by the Institute of Teaching and Learning as 2007-2008 University Teaching Fellow. (April 2007)
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Louis Lombardi, Director of the Actuarial Science Program, has been chosen as the Honors Council Faculty Member of the Year for 2007. (April 2007)
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Changfeng Gui is the recipient of the 2007 Provost Research Excellence Award. (April 2007)
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Bill Abikoff received a grant from the Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics Program at the NSF to support the Lars Ahlfors Centennial Celebration in Helsinki, Finland, on August 20-24, 2007. (March 2007)
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Masha Gordina has been awarded a three year grant by the Probability Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences of NSF to work on her proposal "Infinite-dimensional stochastic analysis."(March 2007)
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Miki Neumann, professor and head of the mathematics department, was named Distinguished Professor by the Board of Trustees on January 30, 2007.
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The Mathematics Department will host the Abelian Groups and Modules over Commutative Rings Conference June 11-15, 2007.
Sarah Glaz, Chuck Vinsonhaler
and Bill Wickless were awarded a grant from the Mathematical Sciences Division of the NSA, for the organization of the conference.
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Joe Miller has received a 3 year NSF grant from the Algebra, Number Theory,Combinatorics and Foundations Programs within the Division of Mathematical Sciences. Joe's proposed research is on "Randomness and Computability." (July 2006)
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Keith Conrad and Reed Solomon have been awarded the 2005/06 Teaching Promise AAUP Excellence Award. (July 2006)
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Richard Bass has been awarded a 3 year grant from the Probability and Statistics Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the NSF, to work on his proposal "Analysis of multidimensional processes." (July 2006)
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Tara Holm has been awarded a three year grant by the Geometric Analysis Program, within the Division of Mathematical Sciences of NSF to work on her proposal "The Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics of Hamiltonian Lie Group Actions." (July 2006)
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Miki Neumann has been awarded a two year grant, beginning in 2007, by the Mathematical Sciences Program at the NSA for his proposal "Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, Applications, and the Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Nonnegative Matrices." (June 2006)
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Changfeng Gui has been selected to present an invited address at the 2006 Fall Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Storrs, October 28-29, 2006. (February 2006)
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Fabiana A. Cardetti and Thomas Roby won a Department of Higher Education Teacher Quality Partnership Grant, funded through the federal No Child Left Behind act. (January 2006)
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The Office of Sponsored Programs approved the nomination of Paul-Jean Cahen, Professor at the University of Marseille, France for a Short Term Guest Professorship. The nomination was made by Sarah Glaz (January 2006).
Prof. Cahen is a reknowned commutative algebraist in the area of
Integer Valued Polynomials, former Vice President of the French
Mathematical Society, former Head of Research Division of the Science
Faculty of the University of Marseille. He is also involved in
educational enterprises. The Short Term Guest Professorship
nomination was supported jointly by the Mathematics Department and by the Neag
School of Education. Cahen will be visiting for the Fall 2006 semester
and will collaborate in research with Sarah Glaz and other people in the
department with interest in that area. (January 2006)
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Vadim Olshevsky was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Integral Equations and Operator Theory. He is also on the editorial boards of Linear Algebra and its Applications and the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA). (October 2005)
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Kyu-Hwan Lee won the
the Korean Mathematical Society Prize for excellent papers published in Korean Mathematical Journals. Kyu-Hwan will receive
the award at the Korean Mathematical Society's annual meeting. (October 2005)
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Alexander Teplyaev was awarded a 3 year NSF grant to pursue research on "Random, stochastic, and self-similar equations". (September 2005)
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David Gross was recognized by the Center for Academic Programs. (September 2005)
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Stuart J. Sidney was the recipient of the Alumni Association's 2005 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching at the graduate level. The presentation will be made October 28, 2005, followed by a performance by UConn's Fine Arts students. (October 2005)
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Changfeng Gui was awarded a 3 year NSF grant to pursue research on "Qualitative studies of some partial differential equations and systems." This is in continuation of an earlier grant. (May 2005)
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Sarah Glaz won an award in the 2005 General Education Course Development Grant Competition for her proposal for a new course designed to provide a thorough preparation for science courses for students whose high school algebra background is not very strong. (May 2005)
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James Hurley was awarded the the University of Connecticut High School Cooperative Faculty Coordinator Award for Excellence in Curriculum and Adjunct Faculty Development. Hurley is one of the first two recipients of this award. (April 2005)
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Maria Gordina was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to work on "Stochastic Analysis in Infinite Dimensions" with Professor M. Rockner of the University of Bielefeld and with Professor S. Albeverio of the University of Bonn. (March 2005)
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stage researchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany .
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Michael Neumann was awarded the Chancellor's Excellence in Research award for 2004-2005 and will be recognized for this achievement at the Undergraduate Commencement in May 2005.
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Kinetsu Abe (Math), Thomas Peters (CSE and Math) and Alexander Russell (CSE and Math) were awarded an NSF grant "Computational Topology and Surface Approximation" for $255,000 for 3 years starting Sept 2004. This is a continuation of a grant which expired in Oct 2004.
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Evarist Giné gave a Medallion Lecture at the joint 67th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and 6th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, in Barcelona, Catalonia, on July 26-31, 2004. The IMS selects eight Medallion Lecturers every year, and the one-hour lectures are delivered at the IMS meetings held during that year. Another researcher with ties to our Department, Vladimir Koltchinskii of the University of New Mexico, gave a Medallion Lecture at the same meeting. Evarist was also the President of the Program Committee for the IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Probabilidad y Estadistica Matematica, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in March 2004. In addition, Evarist was awarded a 2-year grant from the National Security Agency to work on his project, "Limit Theorems in Probability Theory and Applications," through February 2006.
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Bill Abikoff was a speaker at the convocation ceremony for the recently formed Honors College at the Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY) in January 2004.
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Yung S. Choi received the Chancellor's Excellence in Research award for 2003-2004 and was recognized for this achievement at the Graduate Commencement in May 2004.
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Sarah Glaz received the 2004 UConn AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Innovation. The award was presented at a ceremony at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on April 14.
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Joe McKenna received the Distinguished College or University Teaching Award of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America for 2004.
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Reed Solomon was awarded a 3-year NSF grant for his proposal "Computability Theory, Reverse Mathematics and Countable Algebraic Structures."
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Regina Speicher received the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2004.
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On February 28, 2003, Professor Changfeng Gui received the Research Prize for 2002 of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. Changfeng was honored by the PIMS at the opening ceremonies for the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, in Alberta. Changfeng has a grant from the NSF, through June 2005, to work on a "Qualitative Study of Some Partial Differential Equations and Systems."
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Maria Gordina was awarded a 3-year NSF grant for her proposal "Stochastic analysis in infinite dimensions."
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In July 2001, Chancellor Petersen announced that four University faculty members had been chosen for the Chancellor's Research and Excellence Awards. We were especially pleased that two were mathematicians, Richard Bass and Joe McKenna. On Thursday, November 15, the Department celebrated with a special dual colloquium at which Rich spoke for 30 minutes about one area of mathematical research to which he has made many contributions and Joe gave a half hour overview of the development of the problems with which he has tangled. The awards were formally presented at the graduate commencement on May 19, 2002.
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Manuel Lerman received the 1999 Research Excellence Award from the UConn Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. This university-wide award recognizes outstanding research contributions by UConn faculty members.
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Richard Bass was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians, Zürich in 1994.
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Richard Bass was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1989.
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