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Ambar Sengupta has received a 2015 LSU Distinguished Faculty Award, and Stephen Shipman has received a 2015 LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award.

Richard Ng, Dmitri Nikshych, Eric Rowell and Zhenghan Wang are organizing a Conference on Modular Categories -- Their Representations, Classification, and Applications in Oaxaca, Mexico. The conference is sponsored by the Banff International Research Station.

Six Math Majors were among the 43 Spring 2015 University Medalists. The University Medal is awarded to graduating LSU seniors with a perfect 4.0 GPA:

Six Math Majors were among the 43 Spring 2015 University Medalists. The University Medal is awarded to graduating LSU seniors with a perfect 4.0 GPA:

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:

At the 2015 LSU College of Science Convocation the following Math Faculty and Students were honored:

The recent issue of Annals of Combinatorics has been dedicated to Boyd Professor James Oxley, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The focus of this special issue is matroid theory, a subject to which James contributed most of his over 140 research papers, and on which he wrote the authoritative monograph.

LSU students performed well on the annual Putnam Mathematics Competition, which is a prestigious and very challenging six-hour exam held each December.

LSU Math Major Bruno Beltran was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in Systems and Molecular Biology. He spends this semester at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale University.

Bruno Beltran is in the process of completing his Honors Thesis under Professor Neubrander. He was a 2013 recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship.