The Maryland Math Department is sponsoring two one-day meetings in November, 2014, both joint with Johns Hopkins in Baltimore:

• JHU-UMD Algebra and Number Theory DayAlgebra and Number Theory Day, to be held November 8th. Speakers include Benjamin Howard (Boston College), Allen Knutson (Cornell University), Andrew Snowden (University of Michigan), and Kirsten Wickelgren (Georgia Tech).
• Metro Area Differential Geometry Seminar (MADGUYS)  #1, to be held November 14th. Speakers include Otis Chodosh (Stanford University), Jim Isenberg (University of Oregon), and Valentino Tosatti (Northwestern University).

Professor Doron Levy has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for his research in mathematical biology. See http://www.gf.org/about-the-foundation/the-fellowship/ for more information about the fellowship.

Congratulations to our team: Chris Lawler, Nathan Ng, and Sean Pannella! They placed in the top 7.5%.

MCM 2014 Results

Chris, Nathan and Sean applied their outstanding interdisciplinary knowledge in modeling, programming, and machine learning.

Our team was guided by Matt Guay under the direction of Professor Radu Balan. Training was provided by a department group including: Dana-Adriana Botesteanu, Xuemei Chen, Chae Clark , David Darmon, Stefan Doboszczak, Virginia Forstall, and Lucia Simonelli.

There were 6755 participating teams from 18 countries. U.S. participated with 391 teams. Go Terps!!

Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Levin earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1964 from the University of Maryland.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S39/56/67M97/index.xml?section=topstories

In this year’s Goldwater Scholarship National Competition for students who plan research careers in the sciences, mathematics, computer science, or engineering, 3 students from Maryland have won the scholarship, and a fourth UMd nominee was recognized as an honorable mention.  Two of the scholarship winners, Geoffrey Ji and Rafael Goissis Setra, as well as honorable mention winner Daniel Albarnaz Farias, are mathematics majors. Congratulations to all three of them and congratulations also to Professor Wojtek Czaja who has been mentoring one of the winners - Rafael Setra.