Awards received by members of the department
- 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, 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.
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!
Mihály (Misi) Kovács (LSU, PhD. 2004, adviser Prof. Frank Neubrander) is this year's sole recipient of the New Zealand Mathematical Society's “Early Career Award for Mathematical Research”. Misi's citation for the prize reads “for his innovative research in the field of stochastic partial differential equations, particularly their numerical approximation”. Congratulations Misi!
Congratulations to Andrew Barker, a VIGRE postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mathematics and the Center for Computation and Technology, who was awarded the 2010 George Pólya Award for mathematical exposition from the MAA. The George Pólya Award, established in 1976, is named after the renowned teacher and writer, and is given for articles of expository excellence published in The College Mathematics Journal.
Congratulations to Dr. Jasson Vindas, who completed his doctoral dissertation in 2009 under the direction of Prof. Ricardo Estrada in the Mathematics Department. Dr. Vindas's dissertation, entitled Local Behavior of Distributions and Applications, has been honored with the University's annual Distinguished Dissertation Award in Science, Engineering and Technology. Dr. Vindas is currently at a 3-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
Professor Susanne Brenner has been selected as one of the SIAM Fellows for 2010. This honorary distinction acknowledges nominated and selected members of the SIAM community as leading thinkers and ambassadors of applied mathematics and computational science. She was cited “For advances in finite element and multigrid methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.” Congratulations!
Professor Milen Yakimov is the first recipient of the newly established Carruth McGehee Award for Excellent Research in Mathematics by a Junior Faculty Member.
Jintao Cui, a doctoral student of Professor Susanne Brenner, received student paper prizes awarded at the 2009 SIAM SEAS Spring Meeting held in Columbia, SC. The selection committee was very impressed with his presentation of his research, as well as the contributions his research has made to mathematics.