Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University - Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences
110 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 - (Tel) 848-445-2390 - (Fax) 732-445-5530
110 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 - (Tel) 848-445-2390 - (Fax) 732-445-5530
Hill Center is named for the mathematician-astronomer
George William Hill (1838-1914, A.B. Rutgers 1859).
What's New
- Natasa Sesum has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2013. Natasa has also been awarded a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship. This Fellowship carries a grant of $1500 from the Trustees.
- Here is a link to a story (by John Chadwick) written on the occasion of the retirement of Judith Lige after almost 52 years of service to the department.
- Our colleague Swastik Kopparty is one of this year's 20 recipients of a Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics. One of our former postdocs, Hoai Minh Nguyen, who is now at the University of Minnesota, is another recipient.
- The AMS has announced that Saharon Shelah will be awarded the 2013 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. This marks the fourth time since 2008 that someone associated with our Department receives a Steele Prize, one of the highest distinctions in mathematics.
- The American Mathematical Society has announced the names of the members of its initial class of Fellows of the AMS. Our department is well represented on this list with more than 25% of our current Tenure-Track faculty (seventeen to be precise). Seven of our emeritus faculty also belong to this initial class. You may consult the following link for the entire list and a description of the Fellows program.
- Swastik Kopparty has been awarded a five year NSF CAREER Grant. To quote from the NSF Program Description: "These are foundation-wide awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research".
- Our graduate program has been awarded a new Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grant by the US Department of Education. This grant will provide 9 generous one year graduate fellowships for Ph.D. students in Mathematics between 2012 and 2015. Zheng Chao Han will serve as the Project Director, and Chris Woodward will serve as the Deputy Project Director.
- The Association for Women in Mathematics has announced that Amy Cohen will receive the 2013 Louise Hay Award at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in January 2013. Established in 1991, this award recognizes achievements in any area of mathematics education. The citation specifically mentions Amy's leadership of the New Jersey Partnership for Excellence in Middle School Mathematics, and her significant service to professional organizations.
- Jeffry Kahn has (jointly with A. Johansson and V. Vu) been selected to receive a 2012 Fulkerson Prize. These prizes are jointly sponsored by the Mathematical Optimization Society and the American Mathematical Society, and they are awarded every three years in recognition of an outstanding paper in discrete mathematics. Other Rutgers related researchers who have received such a prize include Jozsef Beck (in 1985) and Jeong Han Kim (in 1997). The latter, incidentally, is a former PhD student of Jeff.
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Department Notices
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