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Four LSU math graduate students, Eric Bucher, Maitreyee Kulkarni, Bach Nguyen, and Kurt Trampel, were awarded a travel grant from the LSU Student Senate to attend the MSRI Hot Topics Workshop on Cluster Algebras and Wall Crossings in Berkeley, CA.

Shawn Walker released a music video describing his research on "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Nematic Liquid Crystals".

The McGehee Award for Excellent Research by a Junior Faculty Member will be awarded this year jointly to Pramod Achar and Hongchao Zhang. This award was established to honor Carruth McGehee on his retirement. The area of the award rotates between Mathematics; Humanities and the Social Sciences; and Natural Sciences. The first winner of the award was Milen Yakimov in 2009.

Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Company, ranked the LSU Math Actuary Program among the top 15 in the U.S.

Professor Larry Smolinsky is the Director of Actuarial Science, and questions can be addressed to him.

Scott Baldridge was featured in the 2015/16 edition of Pursuit, the LSU College of Science Magazine. The magazine reports on his Eureka efforts for Pre-K through 12th-grade math education.

Scott Baldridge is the Loretta Cox Stuckey & Dr. James G. Traynham Distinguished Professor. His research focuses on Geometric Topology.

The research of Robert Lipton and his group was featured in the LSU Reveille. 

Robert Lipton is the S.B. Barton Professor of Mathematics. He joined LSU in 2001.

Congratulations to Robert Viator (soon-to-be LSU PhD, advisor Prof. Robert Lipton) who has been appointed to an IMA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota for the 2016-17 academic year.

Robert Lipton's research got noticed by WRKF, the public radio station in Baton Rouge. His group is part of a Multi University Research Initiative that is funded by the Department of Defense. Other participating groups are at MIT, Ohio State, UC Irvine and the University of New Mexico. 

Irina Holmes was awarded an NSF Postdoc Fellowship. She received her PhD in 2014 at LSU under Ambar Sengupta.