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Austin Scirratt is a recipient of the Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award 2016 in recognition of his outstanding teaching ability and service to students. He will be presented with a one-time cash award of $1,000 and an inscribed plaque. This is the second year in a row that someone from the Math Department has won this award.

Laura Rider accepted a (tenure track) Assistant Professorship at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her research interests lie in geometric representation theory. Laura Rider received her PhD in 2013 under Pramod Achar, and is currently NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.

The conference Scientific Computing Around Louisiana 2016 (SCALA 2016) will be held at the LSU Digital Media Center on February 12-13, 2016.

Professor Pallavi Dani is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Michler Memorial Prize of the Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM). The Michler Prize is awarded annually to a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor in the mathematical sciences. The prize provides  a $47,000 fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.

Professor Shawn Walker has been awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER grant Numerical Methods for Liquid Crystals and Their Optimal Design. The grant will fund his research and his outreach activities from August 2016 through July 2021.

The book Introduction to Radon Transforms: With Elements of Fractional Calculus and Harmonic Analysis by Professor Boris Rubin has been published by Cambridge University Press in the series Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications.

The workshop Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their Representations will take place November 7-8, 2015 at LSU. Local organizers are Profs. Pramod Achar, Gestur Olafsson, Dan Sage and Milen Yakimov.

The Department of Mathematics has been awarded a new three year GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) from the US Department of Education commencing Fall 2015. Mathematics has been designated by congress as an area of national need. This grant tries to address this area of national need by providing for doctoral fellowships to support excellent US citizen and Permanent Resident graduate students in mathematics at LSU.

Bradley Currey (Saint Louis University), Gestur Olafsson (LSU) and Gail Ratcliff (East Carolina University) are organizing an AMS Mathematics Research Communities Summer Conference on Lie group representations, discretization, and Gelfand pairs. The conference will take place June 5-11, 2016 at Snowbird Resort, Utah.

Professor Shawn Walker's book The Shapes of Things: A Practical Guide to Differential Geometry and the Shape Derivative was published in the SIAM monograph and textbook series Advances in Design and Control.