Awards received by members of the department
Irina Holmes was awarded an NSF Postdoc Fellowship. She received her PhD in 2014 at LSU under Ambar Sengupta.
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.

From left to right: Matthew Barnes, Jun Peng, Amer Darweesh, Abiti Adili, and Eric Bucher.
Simon Pfeil is a recipient of the Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award 2015 in recognition of his outstanding teaching ability and service to students.
Graduate Math Students Awards
Departmental Service Award
- George Cochran received the departmental Service Award
Faculty who won LSU Awards

From left: Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, Laura Rider, Joel Geiger, Timothy Shatley, Jesse Taylor, Jake Blanton, Jacob Matherne, and Irina Holmes
Departmental Fall 2012 Awards
- Laura Rider received Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence.
- Yi Zhang received Pasquale Porcelli Certificate of Research Excellence.
- Jacob Blanton and Jesse Taylor received David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award.
- Joel Geiger, Irina Holmes, Jacob Matherne, Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, and Timothy Shatley received Certificates of Teaching Excellence.
- Professor Jacek Cygan was recognized for his 31.5 years of distinguished service to the department upon his retirement.
Congratulations to all!

From left, top: Jake Blanton, Katie Stelly, Christine Derbins, Stephanie Kurtz, Breanne Hughes, Rebecca Landry; bottom: Perry Iverson, Aleksandr Smirnov, Austin Scirratt, Jacob Desmond, and Jordan Keller