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Professor Susanne C. Brenner was one of the organizers of an AWM Workshop at the SIAM Annual Meeting, July 10-14, 2017, Pittsburgh. Her workshop Recent Advances in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing was featured in the recent newsletter of the AWM (pages 6-8).

Bertrand Langrand and Julian Berthe from the Materials and Structures department at ONERA, the French aerospace research center, will be spending a week at the department of Mathematics at LSU in October. Bertrand Langrand is the scientific deputy director of the department.

Professor Gestur Olafsson was appointed on a two-year term to the Expert Panel for Physical Sciences and Mathematics of the Icelandic National Science Foundation Rannis.

Three recent LSU math PhDs are currently postdocs at Michigan State University: Paul Sinz (left; Postdoc in the MSU Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; PhD 2017; Advisor: Rob Lipton), Irina Holmes (middle; PhD 2016; Advisor: Ambar Sengupta) and Eric Bucher (right; PhD 2016; Advisor: Milen Yakimov).

Professor Robert Lipton and Govind Menon (Brown University) co-chair the Organizing Committee for the 2018 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science.

The conference will be held jointly with the SIAM Annual Meeting from July 9-13, 2018, in Portland, Oregon.

Professor Guoli Ding was named Hubert Butts Professor of Mathematics. He received his PhD in 1991 in Operations Research at Rutgers University, and
he joined the LSU math department that year. Guoli Ding contributed more than 65 publications to Mathematics, Operations Research and Computer Science.

During the last 25 years his research was supported through more than twelve research grants from the NSF, the NSA, the Air Force, and the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund.

Jordan Keller (B.S. Math 2012) was selected as a new Fellow in Mathematics at the Black Hole Initiative, an interdisciplinary center at Harvard bringing together astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers. At Harvard he will be mentored by the Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau.

Professor Stefan van Zwam is a recipient of the 2017 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award.
The award will be presented on May 3rd, 2017, at the Lod Cook Alumni Center.

Phoebe Rouse, Instructor in the Department of Mathematics, is a recipient of the 2017 Tiger Athletic Foundation Outstanding Instructor Award. The award will be presented on May 3rd, 2017, at the Lod Cook Alumni Center.