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Starting Fall 2014 Stefan van Zwam joins the math department as an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in 2009 from Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. From 2009-2011 he was Postdoctoral researcher at the CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands, before becoming Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University. 

Stefan van Zwam's research interests lie in matroid theory.

Winnie Sloan received a 2014 Curtis E. Huntington Memorial Scholarship from the Actuarial Foundation.  Winnie is a senior mathematics and music major in the Mathematics Actuarial Science concentration.  The scholarship recipients are determined by national competition among full-time college seniors interested in pursuing a career as an actuary.

The article Quantum cluster algebras and quantum nilpotent algebras by Professor Milen Yakimov and his collaborator Kenneth Goodearl (University of California, Santa Barbara) was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Alexander Perlis and his coauthor Susan Marshall (Monmouth University) have won a 2014 Halmos-Ford award from the MAA for their paper "Heronian Tetrahedra Are Lattice Tetrahedra", American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 120, No. 2 (February 2013), pp. 140-149.

Congratulations to Matthew Dawson (soon-to-be LSU PhD, advisor Prof. Olafsson), who has been appointed as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) at Guanajuato, Mexico.

At the 2014 Choppin Honors Convocation the LSU College of Science awarded TAF Undergraduate Teaching Awards to Stephanie Kurtz and Dottie Vaughn. 

Gestur Olafsson was awarded the Graduate Teaching Award, and Hongchao Zhang received the College of Science Research Award.

LSU math major and honors student Morgan Matchett has been selected by LSU as one of the 2014 "Tiger Twelve".  This award is given every year by the Dean of Students Office to twelve LSU undergraduate students who "have exemplified the seven basic principles outlined in the LSU Commitment to Community".  300 students were nominated, and the application process includes both a written packet as well as interviews with a panel.

The LSU math conference Applications of Automorphic Forms in Number Theory and Combinatorics got featured on the news of Baton Rouge's station WAFB.

Martin Forrest and Ambar Sengupta received a University College Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award at the 2014 Spring Awards reception of the LSU University College.

LSU will host a conference on ordered algebraic structures, May 1-3, 2014. Cick here.