Padmanabhan Sundar, LSU Professor of Mathematics, received the 2025 LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award. The award recognizes faculty members for outstanding teaching, research, and service.
Ana Balibanu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at LSU, has been awarded the 2024 Lichnerowicz Prize for her contributions to the study of the profound connections between algebraic groups and Poisson geometry. The André Lichnerowicz Prize in Poisson Geometry, established in 2008, is awarded biennially at the International Conference on Poisson Geometry to recognize outstanding contributions to the field. Named in memory of André Lichnerowicz (1915-1998), whose pioneering work was instrumental in establishing Poisson Geometry as a distinct branch of mathematics, the prize recipients are selected by a jury comprised of members from the conference’s scientific and advisory committee.
Samuel Weiner has been awarded the 2024-2025 LSU Dissertation Year Fellowship. This highly competitive fellowship is awarded to outstanding Ph.D. students in their final year, allowing them to concentrate exclusively on their dissertation research.
Dylan Douthitt has been awarded a 2024-2025 LSU Dissertation Year Fellowship, a prestigious recognition for exemplary PhD candidates in their final academic year. This competitive fellowship enables exceptional scholars like Douthitt with the necessary resources and support to solely focus on their dissertation research.
Math Major Lillian Powell is one of 65 graduates from eight different colleges at LSU who will be awarded the LSU Distinguished Communicator Medal during the May 2024 Commencement Ceremony. Her advisor is Charles Delzell.
Bren Hutchinson, an LSU math major, was awarded the 2024 Curtis E. Huntington Memorial Scholarship by the Actuarial Foundation. This scholarship is granted through a national competition open to full-time college seniors who are planning to pursue a career as an actuary.
