Awards

Awards received by members of the department

Michler Memorial Prize for Pallavi Dani

Professor Pallavi Dani is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). The Michler Prize is awarded annually to a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor in the mathematical sciences. The prize provides a \$47,000 fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.

LSU Math majors enter top PhD programs

2015 Star Graduating Seniors
From left to right: Bruno Beltran (Stanford), Jason Mueller (Bristol), Rachael Keller (Columbia), Paxton Turner (MIT), and Avery St. Dizier (Cornell).

2015 LSU Math graduating seniors will be entering some of the top PhD and Masters programs:

Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award for Simon Pfeil

Simon Pfeil is a recipient of the Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award 2015 in recognition of his outstanding teaching ability and service to students. 

Fall 2013 Awards

Graduate Math Students Awards

Departmental Service Award

  • George Cochran received the departmental Service Award

Spring 2013 Awards

Faculty who won LSU Awards

Fall 2012 Awards

Fall 2012 Award Recipients
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!

Spring 2012 Awards

Spring 2012 Award Recipients
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

Fall 2011 Awards

  • Xuanting Cai received Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence.
  • Irina Holmes received David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award.
  • Susan Abernathy, Jacob Matherne, Trevor McGuire, Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, and Jesse Taylor received Certificates of Teaching Excellence.

Aleksandra Gruszka is best paper finalist at American Control Conference

Aleksandra Gruszka, a PhD student of Professor Michael Malisoff, was one of five students selected as finalists for the Student Best Paper Award at the 2011 American Control Conference-ACC 2011, held in San Francisco, June 29 - July 1, 2011. For more information about this award, see the ACC-2011 website. An extended version of this paper has already been accepted for publication in the journal International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Spring 2011 Awards

LSU Awards and Recognitions

  • Professor Gestur Olafsson has been appointed Julian R. & Sidney Nicolle Carruth Endowed Alumni Professor.
  • Professor Scott Baldridge received the Tiger Athletic Foundation President’s Award.
  • Professor Robert Lipton won the LSU Distinguished Faculty Award.
  • Dottie Vaughn won the Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching
    Award (Science).
  • Julia Ledet won the Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award
    (University College).
  • Myron Minn-Thu-Aye received the LSU Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award.

College of Science Awards

  • Hannah Manuel received the College of Science Outstanding Junior Award.
  • Jacob Richard Desmond received the College of Science Outstanding Sophomore Award.
  • Breanna Hughes received the College of Science Tiger Athletic Foundation Scholarship.
  • Jordan Keller received the College of Science Burland Scholarship.
  • Christian Bankester received the College of Science Dean's Award.

Departmental Awards

  • Kyle Istvan received the Porcelli Award for Graduate Academic Excellence.
  • Trevor McGuire won the David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award.
  • Stephanie Stanley received the Margaret Oxley Math Education Award.
  • Philip Benge received the Robert and Betti Giles Senior Math Award.
  • Hannah Manuel received the Porcelli Senior Scholarship.
  • Andrew Elias received the Porcelli Junior Scholarship.
  • Kevin Hale won the Math Department’s Geaux Teach Award.
  • Stan Dziobiak, Dennis Hall, Perry Iverson, Benedykt Szozda, and Lisa Warshauer received Certificates of Teaching Excellence.

Congratulations to all!