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Distinguished Dissertation Award

Congratulations to Dr. Jasson Vindas, LSU Mathematics PhD graduate and student of Prof. Ricardo Estrada, for winning the annual Distinguished Dissertation Award of the College of Basic Sciences at LSU.

LSU Graduate receives NSF International Postdoc

Carolyn Chun, a 2009 LSU Ph.D., received an International Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The NSF program supports “...highly meritorious research and education activities that present unique opportunities and offer potentially high benefits because of the vital and integral nature of the foreign collaboration.” The award will support Dr. Chun's research in combinatorics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Recent Graduate wins International Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Carolyn B. Chun, PhD graduate in 2009, who has won a 24-month International Research Fellowship  from the National Science Foundation.  Carolyn was a student of Prof. James Oxley, and she is working at  Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Postdocs at MSRI, CALTECH, IMA, and Texas A&M

Congratulations are in order to three pending PhD graduates for this year.

Ms. Anna Zemlyanova, who is a student of Prof. Yuri Antipov, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley for the fall of 2010.

Mr. Santiago Fortes, who is a student of Profs. Robert Lipton and Stephen Shipman, has been awarded a postdoctoral research position at the California Institute of Technology

Fall 2009 Awards

Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence
Anna Zemlyanova
David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award
Sejong Kim
Certificate of Teaching Excellence
Dennis Hall
Fareed Hawwa
Myron Minn-Thu-Aye

Graduate Student Wins Postdoctoral Research Position

Congratulations to Jasson Vindas, doctoral student of Professor Estrada. Jasson has been awarded a three-year Research Postdoctoral Position at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra at the University of Gent in Belgium. 

$32,000 Board of Regents Doctoral Fellowships

The Louisiana Board of Regents has awarded the Mathematics Department 3 new Board of Regents Doctoral Fellowships.  These four-year fellowships will be for applicants during the fall and spring of 2009-10 who will begin study in August 2010.  The stipends will be $30,000 per year, with free tuition.  Additional support will be provided for research travel expenses.  The Department's proposal was top-ranked among all departments and subject areas in the state this year.

Graduate Student Selected for International Summer Institute

The National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) has selected graduate student Lee Windsperger to participate in the 2009 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI). During the summer of 2009, Lee will visit the University of Dunedin in New Zealand to do research with Professor Boris Baeumer (LSU Math PhD 1997). 

Jintao Cui Receives a 2009 SIAM Student Paper Prize

Jintao Cui, a doctoral student of Professor Susanne Brenner, received student paper prizes awarded at the 2009 SIAM SEAS Spring Meeting held in Columbia, SC. The selection committee was very impressed with his presentation of his research, as well as the contributions his research has made to mathematics.

Jasson Vindas Wins National Award

Congratulations to Jasson Vindas, doctoral student of Ricardo Estrada, who has been awarded the Costa Rica Young Scientist Award. The prize is rotated among the different scientific areas, and is given to a young mathematician every 4 years. The first math winner, in 1992, also has an LSU connection.