(2008) Graduate student, Lorena Bociu, is the winner of the All University Award in Math, Science and Engineering. Honorable Mention Teaching Awards in Mathematics go to Katherine Heller and Takehiko Kaminogo.

(2008) Undergraduate student, Vincent Zimmern, working on a research project with Professor Irina Mitrea and graduate student, Katy Ott, has been awarded a Virginia Space Consortium Grant in support of this endeavor.

(2008) The Association for Women in Mathematics and Cornell University are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Irina Mitrea will receive the second annual Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. The Michler Prize is unique-—it grants a mid-career woman in academe a residential fellowship in the Cornell University mathematics department without teaching obligations. This pioneering venture was established through a very generous donation from the Michler family and the efforts of many people at AWM and Cornell. Further details are at: http://www.awm-math.org/michlerprize.html
http://www.awm-math.org/michlerprize.html

(2008) Associate Professor Irina Mitrea is coaching the Sutherland Middle School team in the MathCounts competition. Now in its 25th year, MathCounts is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program organized by the National Society of Professional Engineers and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. It is designed to promote interest in mathematics among middle school students across the country.
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(2008) Graduate Student, Lorena Bociu, has won the Mathematics Department Teaching Award. She will compete for the All University Teaching Award. Katherine Heller and Takehiko Kaminogo received honorable mention.

(2008) Graduate Student, Lorena Bociu, has been selected by the VPRGS to represent the University of Virginia at the Virginia Council of Graduate Schools Research Forum in February. The purpose of the forum is to showcase graduate student scholarship across Virginia and to highlight the benefits of graduate education to the Commonwealth. All state universities with graduate programs have been invited to send up to six graduate students to display their scholarship to representatives from thee state legislature, executive branch, the business community, and other Virginia universities.

(2008) Graduate Student, Lorena Bociu, has received the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences and Engineering. This award, by the Office of Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies, recognizes excellence in original scholarship by Ph.D students at the University.

(2008) Professor Weiqiang Wang now serves as the editor of two math journals: International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN) and International Mathematics Research Papers (IMRP). For the entire Editorial Board of IMRN (and IMRP), see
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/imrn/editorial_board.html

(2007) Assistant Professor, Christian Gromoll, has been awarded the Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award for his three papers on queues: The fluid limit of a heavily loaded processor sharing queue, by Gromoll, Puha and Williams, Annals of Applied Probability, 2002, Vol. 12, 797-859; Invariant states and rates of convergence for a critical fluid model of a processor sharing queue, by Puha and Williams, Annals of Applied Probability, 2004, Vol. 14, 517-554; Diffusion approximation for a processor sharing queue in heavy traffic, by Gromoll, Annals of Applied Probability, 2004, Vol. 14, 555-611.
http://appliedprob.society.informs.org/awards/bestpub.html

Amber Puha, Christian Gromoll, and Ruth Williams receive their plaques from Jim Dai
Photo: Marty Reiman, APS

(2007) Professor Emeritus, Charles Dunkl, will be guest editor for the online (refereed) journal SIGMA's (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) upcoming special issue on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Dunkl Operators (defined by Professor Dunkl in 1988-89). See the journal's front page: http://emis.library.cornell.edu/journals/SIGMA/, and the special issue page: http://emis.library.cornell.edu/journals/SIGMA/Dunkl_operators.html

(2007) Assistant Professor, Christian Gromoll, was awarded a grant from NSF to study Measure Valued Processes and Stochastic Systems with start date 8/1/07. This anticipated award has now been posted by NSF.

(2008) Associate Professor, Slava Kruskal, was awarded a grant from NSF to study New Topological Structures in Condensed Matter Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical physics in Santa Barbara in Spring 2008. Slava will be on leave both Fall (UVa research leave) and Spring (NSF award). When he returns in Fall 2008, he will teach a class on quantum computation.

(2007) Associate Professor Irina Mitrea's Girls and Mathematics is a one-week program for middle school girls. This year 29 young ladies participate. On the final day, August 17, TV Channel 29 covered the final program and awards. http://www.nbc29.com:80/Global/story.asp?S=6916825
More about the program is available from http://people.virginia.edu/~kao3h/girlsandmath_2007.htm
Some of the TA's that helped as Program Instructors were: Katherine Heller, Diana Mitrea, Diana Morris, Katharine Ott, and Katie Quertermous.

(2008) Assistant Professor Abdelmalek Abdesselam has been selected as a 2007-08 Excellence in Diversity Fellow which is awarded by Teaching Resource Center.

(2007) Graduate Student, KATY OTT , has won Second Prize in the 7th R. Huskey Research Exhibition (2007) in the category: Oral Presentations in Physical Sciences and Mathematics.

(2007) Undergraduate, DAVID ISAACS , who worked with graduate student, Katy Ott, for the Double Hoo Fellowship was one of twelve undergraduates (the only one in mathematics) selected to present his work at the Spring 2007 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

(2007) Graduate Student, Katy Ott , has won the prestigious Faculty Senate Dissertation Fellowship, 2007. The award is based on research pointing toward a productive scholarly career while establishing a strong record in the classroom, indicating the candidates high promise as teachers.

(2007) Graduate Student, Rebecca Schmitz , has won the 2006 Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants in Mathematics. This award includes a monetary award and certificate from the University and monetary award from the Department of Mathematics. Rebecca will compete for the University-wide teaching award conducted by the Teaching Resource Center.

(2007) Professor Emeritus, Charles Dunkl , has been invited to give a principal lecture at the DFG-JSPS (German and Japanese national research foundations) Conference on Infinite-Dimensional Harmonic Analysis, September 9-15, 2007, at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The title of his talk is "Transforms, Polynomials and Integrable Models Associated with Reflection Groups."

(2007) Graduate Student, Rebecca Schmitz , has won the 2006 All University Teaching Award for Math, Sciences and Engineering. This is a distinguished award as the judges are experts from the Teaching Resource Center.

(2007) Graduate student, David Banh , is the first person ever to complete UVa's four-year undergraduate program in one year. You can read an article on David in the Daily Progress online.

(2007) Department of Mathematics Receives GAANN Grant for Graduate Student Support
The Department of Mathematics has received a U.S. Department of Education GAANN grant for graduate fellowships, (GAANN standing for Graduate Assistance in Area of National Need). The grant will enable the Department to fund as GAANN fellows eight graduate students who are pursuing the Ph.D. degree. Five years of academic year and summer funding, including a dissertation-year fellowship, will enable successful fellows to maintain momentum towards their degrees. The average time-to-completion of the Department's previous GAANN fellows has been 4.8 years. The Department of Mathematics provides its graduate students with a broad exposure to mathematics and advanced training in mathematical research, as well as substantive teacher training. All of its graduate students may benefit from the summer program provided to the GAANN fellows, which include transitional classes during the summer prior to the official beginning of their program. The Department seeks students who show exceptional promise for research and teaching in mathematics, and who have demonstrated financial need. Individuals from backgrounds that have been traditionally under-represented in the mathematical sciences, are particularly encouraged to apply.

(2007) Congratulations to David Banh, Lorena Bociu, David Isaac, and Katy Ott for receiving the highly competitive DOUBLE-HOO RESEARCH AWARD from CEU (Center for Undergradute Excellence). Lorena is the PI on the project.

(2006) Assistant Professor, Irina Mitrea, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Career Award (5 years) in 2006. This is primarily a research award but has a teaching component.

(2007) Assistant Professor, Irina Mitrea, has been selected as a 2006-07 University of Virginia Teaching Fellow.

(2006) Graduate student, Michael Smith has won the All-University Graduate Teaching Award for 2006.

(2007) The Mead Endowment, in conjunction with the Dean of the College, has selected Assistant Professor, Irina Mitrea, as one of ten Mead Honored Faculty for the 2006-07 academic year. The Mead Endowment is a program created and funded by friends and former students of beloved UVa faculty member Ernest "Boots" Mead.

(2007) Congratulations to the Putnam Team, which again this year was in the top (Sweet) 16. The team consisted of Wittiwat Kositwattanarerk, Chalermpont Worawannotai, and Di Wu. We had 10 students take the Putnam Test with 9 of the 10 scoring in the top 25%. A total of 4000 students took the Putnam Test and the names of the top 10% will be published. This will include the three members of the team and PONGPOL RUANKONG.

(2007) Congratulations to Daniel Toundykov, who has won Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship for the 2006-2007 Session.

(2006) Congratulations to graduate student, Katharine Heller, who has been chosen as a 2006 finalist for the University-wide Seven Society Fellowship for Superb Teaching.

(2006) Mathematics professor, Loren Pitt, was honored by the Virginia Council for Mathematics Supervision on March 9, 2006 at their annual meeting. Dr. Pitt received the Leadership Award "in appreciation for many years of dedicated service in narrowing the gap between mathematics theory and educational practice in the state of Virginia."

(2006) Congratulations to graduate students, Lorena Bociu and Katy Ott, for being selected for an oral presentation of their research work at the 6-th ANNUAL GRADUATE RESEARCH EXHIBITION, March 2006.

(2006) Professor of History and Mathematics Karen Parshall, has been invited to give an AMS plenary lecture at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society to be held in Miami, Florida on 1-2 April, 2006. She will speak on "The British Development of the Theory of Invariants, 1841-1895."

(2006) Gordon T. Whyburn Professor of Mathematics, Brian Parshall, will give the Twenty-fourth William J. Spencer Lecture at Kansas State University on 4 May, 2006. This endowed lecture series was established in 1990 to emphasize "mathematics as a foundational discipline for science, commerce, and the arts." Professor Parshall will speak on the "Representation Theory of Groups."

(2006) Graduate student, Daniel Toundykov received the University-wide Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Science and Engineering, 2006.

(2006) Graduate student, Lorena Bociu received an award from IMA, University of Minnesota, to participate and give a short presentation in Riviera-Fabes Workshop, April 2006.

(2006) Graduate student, Inger Daniels received an award from SIAM to present a poster at the SIAM Conference in Boston, July 2006.

(2006) Graduate students, Inger Daniels and Katharine Ot have been awarded a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year. Inger will use this award to answer questions arising in the area of non-linear oscillation theory. Specifically, she will study well-posedness and controllability of weak solutions of systems described by the von Karman models and its variants. Katharine will use her award to support research in partial differential equations. More specifically, she is looking at several open questions regarding transmission problems for the Stokes system and the solvability of the radiosity equation in non-smooth domains.

(2006) Graduate student, Michael Smith is the grand winner of the TA Teaching Awards for 2005-06 academic year. He will compete for the All-University GTA Award. Rebecca Schmitz was the runner up, and Lorena Bociu and Matthew Pons received honorable mention.

(2006) Professor Weiqiang Wang has been invited to participate in the program, "New Topological Structures in Physics," at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, for Spring 2006. He was also an invited speaker for the MSRI workshop "Generalized McKay correspondences and representation theory" March 19-24, 2006.

The Mathematics Department's McShane Prize Winners

1974, Miller Shannon Allen III
1975, Frank Thomas Gencarelli
1976, Gregory Francis Lawler
1977, Brian Lee Harbourne, Michael Leo Hogan
1978, Pankai Naunitram Topiwala
1979, Charles Holland Romine
1980, Eric Anders Carlen
1981, Nelson Eugene Bickers, Jr.
1982, James Vance Grant, Jeffrey Leon Hakim
1983, Mark Gregory Pleszcoch
1984, Raymond Cheng
1985, Frederick J. Warner
1986, William Charles Nowlin
1987, Robert E. Rudd
1988, Carol Suzanne Chandler
1989, Birkett Thomas Huber
1990, Sharon Lynn Laubach
1991, Timothy Paul Barber
1992, Arthur Charles Roselle
1993, Daniel Lewis Dreibelbis
1994, Mikhail Krichman
1995, Justin Uberti
1996, Allen David Boozer, Laura DeMarco, Jeremy Shane Frasier, Roma David Radford, Jr.
1997, Matthew David Kerr, Nelson Andrew Saiers, Richard Allen Scalzo
1998, Andrew Richard Booker
1999, Jeremy Alan Weiss
2000, David Frederick Anderson
2001, Dale Richard Felker III
2002, Evan Scott Borenstein, Andrew William Cameron, Kevin Michael Wildrick
2003, Daniel Jonathan Haspel, Brian Thomas Street
2004, Richard Lee Barnes II, Hans Kempson Shmidheiser
2005, Ricardo Portilla, Di Wu
2006, Wittawat Kositwattanarerk; Uliana Popova; Patipan Uttayarat; Chalermpong Worawannotai

The Mathematics Department's Floyd Prize Winners

2003, Anthony M. Ghabour, Christopher M. Marcellin
2004, Wittawat Kositwattanarerk, Uliana Popova
2005, Amanda D. Pallais
2006, David Banh, Reed Nessler, Erin Wolff