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At the 2016 Choppin Honors Convocation of the LSU College of Science Phoebe Rouse received a TAF Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Phoebe Rouse is a Senior Instructor in the Math Department, and the Director for Precalculus Mathematics. She joined LSU 35 years ago.

Neal Livesay's poster on the "Local Theory of Meromorphic Connections" received the best poster award at the Texas-Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic Forms Conference TORA VII.

Neal Livesay's PhD advisor is Professor Daniel Sage.

The scores for last December's Putnam Mathematical Competition have been released, and LSU students performed well. The top performer was Shawn Williams, whose score of 20 points placed him in the prestigious Top 500 List, with a rank of 343 out of 4275 competitors from 554 colleges and universities nationwide. LSU also had a total of six students earn a positive score, while the national median was 0. Prof.

Four LSU math graduate students, Eric Bucher, Maitreyee Kulkarni, Bach Nguyen, and Kurt Trampel, were awarded a travel grant from the LSU Student Senate to attend the MSRI Hot Topics Workshop on Cluster Algebras and Wall Crossings in Berkeley, CA.

2* ( 1 + 1/3 + (1*2)/(3*5) + (1*2*3)/(3*5*7) + (1*2*3*4)/(3*5*7*9) + ...... )

Shawn Walker released a music video describing his research on "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Nematic Liquid Crystals".

The McGehee Award for Excellent Research by a Junior Faculty Member will be awarded this year jointly to Pramod Achar and Hongchao Zhang. This award was established to honor Carruth McGehee on his retirement. The area of the award rotates between Mathematics; Humanities and the Social Sciences; and Natural Sciences. The first winner of the award was Milen Yakimov in 2009.

Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Company, ranked the LSU Math Actuary Program among the top 15 in the U.S.

Professor Larry Smolinsky is the Director of Actuarial Science, and questions can be addressed to him.

Scott Baldridge was featured in the 2015/16 edition of Pursuit, the LSU College of Science Magazine. The magazine reports on his Eureka efforts for Pre-K through 12th-grade math education.

Scott Baldridge is the Loretta Cox Stuckey & Dr. James G. Traynham Distinguished Professor. His research focuses on Geometric Topology.