Awards

Professor Karl Mahlburg received a 2018 LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award for outstanding research, teaching, and service. Karl Mahlburg joined the LSU Math Department in 2011.

Colleen Robichaux, LSU Math B.S. 2016, was awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship in the "Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics" Field of Study Category.

Colleen Robichaux is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At LSU she was mentored by Frank Neubrander.

Professor Milen Yakimov is part of the 2018 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

New Faculty

Assistant Professor Aynur Bulut (left) received her Ph.D. in 2011 from UT Austin. She was member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-13, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan from 2013-2016, and she spent 2016-17 at Princeton University. Her research interests lie in PDE.

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.

Professor Susanne C. Brenner is among the fourteen 2017 SEC Faculty Achievement Awardees. These awards honor one individual from each SEC university who has excelled in teaching, research and scholarship.

Math Major Daniel Bourgeois received a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. He plans on taking it at the Statistics Department at Rice University.

Daniel Bourgeois was mentored by Professor Susanne C. Brenner.

Joshua Fallon is the recipient of the 2017 Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award. This award recognizes outstanding teaching ability and service to students.

Susan Murphy, H.E. Robbins Distinguished University Professor of Statistics and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She received her B.S. in mathematics in 1980 from LSU.