Congratulations to UMD’s 3 Goldwater Scholars this year, all from CMNS:

  • Junior physics and mathematics double-degree student Yash Anand
  • Sophomore atmospheric and oceanic science and physics double-degree student Malcolm Maas
  • Junior biological sciences and mathematics double-degree student Jerry Shen

Over the last 15 years, UMD’s nominations yielded 49 scholarships—No. 2 in the nation behind Stanford.

The official announcement article can be read here:
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/2024-goldwater-scholars

Congratulations again, Yash, Malcolm and Jerry!

Congratulations to Maria Cameron for her MURI award. MURI are multidisciplinary university research initiative grants that are awarded by the department of defense. Cameron’s grant is sponsored by the office of naval research. Her team includes Balakumar Balachandran (ME) and Miao Yu (ME). This is a project on “disorder-influenced collective dynamics of nonlinear oscillator systems.”

More details about this award are in the official university announcement: Link

The university announced today a big gift to the Math Department. The very generous gift of $27.2M was made by Michael & Eugenia Brin. The gift will endow the Brin Mathematics Research Center, establish an endowed chair, and launch a summer camp for high school students. The official university’s press release can be found at: https://today.umd.edu/umd-receives-27-2m-gift-to-support-mathematics-research-and-outreach

We very excited to report that our Putnam team ranked 8th, honorable mention, among 471 institutions in the 2023 Putnam math competition.
Our team members this year were Vincent Trang, Daniel Yuan, Omar Habibullah, and Andrew Parker.
Vincent Trang ranked 43rd and Daniel Yuan ranked 64th among 3,857 participants.

Congratulations to Tamas Darvas, Adam Kanigowski, and Yanir Rubinstein for being named Simons Fellows.

Congratulations to Dr. Doron Levy, as Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2024 (https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows_by_year.cgi)!  Dr. Levy was elected  ``For his contributions to Mathematical Oncology and Mathematical Biology".