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Professor Susanne C. Brenner was named Boyd Professor by the LSU Board of Supervisors on Friday, December 8th, 2017.

Professors Richard Ng, Michael Freedman & Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara), Eric Rowell (Texas A&M) and Xiao-Gang Wen (Physics, MIT) were awarded a $1.3 Million collaborative NSF-Focus Research Grant on "Mathematical Foundations of Topological Quantum Computation and its Applications".

The research will cover the mathematical, physical, and computational aspects of topological quantum computation.

Professor Milen Yakimov is part of the 2018 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

Professor Susanne C. Brenner was one of the organizers of an AWM Workshop at the SIAM Annual Meeting, July 10-14, 2017, Pittsburgh, entitled Recent Advances in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing.

Three recent LSU math PhDs are currently postdocs at Michigan State University: Paul Sinz (left; Postdoc in the MSU Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; PhD 2017; Advisor: Rob Lipton), Irina Holmes (middle; PhD 2016; Advisor: Ambar Sengupta) and Eric Bucher (right; PhD 2016; Advisor: Milen Yakimov).

Professor Robert Lipton and Govind Menon (Brown University) co-chair the Organizing Committee for the 2018 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science.