Congratulations to our Putnam Exam participants. The University of Maryland Putnam Team was ranked 15th among the 575 competing institutions in the highly competitive Putnam mathematics exam on December 2, 2017.
Congratulations to Aaron George, who ranked 39th and Erik Metz who ranked 81st, and to Jason Zou, Justin Hontz and Pratik Rathore, who were ranked among the top 500 students out of 4,638 participants!
If you are an undergraduate student interested in participating in Putnam or you would like to know more about it, please contact Dr. Ebrahimian at . Interested students meet every Wednesday 4-5:30 pm in the Fall semesters to learn problem solving strategies.
We would like to congratulate the University Maryland team on their excellent performance on this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the premier undergraduate math competition. The Maryland team consisted of sophomore Aaron George and freshmen Erik Metz and Jason Zou, and placed 14th (among all universities and colleges in the United States and Canada) in the team competition. All 3 team members ranked in the top 200 in the individual competition (out of over 2000 participants), and Erik Metz received Honorable Mention.
Congratulations to Liliana Gonzalez for winning the CMNS Dean’s Outstanding Employee Award and to Professor Niranjan Ramachandran for winning the CMNS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. These awards will be presented at the annual CMNS Academic Festival on Friday, May 5.
Congratulations also to Rachel Katz and Bill Schildknecht, winners of this year’s departmental staff awards. The awards will be presented at an upcoming staff appreciation ceremony.
We regret to announce the passing of our former colleague C. Robert (Bob) Warner, who died August 7, 2017, in Toronto at the age of 85. Bob worked on classical harmonic analysis in Euclidean space, especially on spectral synthesis in L1 algebras. He was dedicated to teaching and was one of the most popular teachers of real analysis courses.
We hired four assistant professors, three effective summer of 2017 and one effective summer of 2018. One of them is Tamas Darvas, who has already been here for a while as a research associate. The second is Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, coming from the Courant Institute at NYU. The third is Rodrigo Trevino, who is an alumnus of the department (his PhD advisor was Giovanni Forni). The fourth is Adam Kanigowski, coming from Penn State. We welcome all of you to our faculty.
Department Chair Scott Wolpert will be receiving this year's Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award at the Faculty-Staff Convocation on September 14th at 3PM in Memorial Chapel. This is for his work with small-group calculus (ACCEL), for being PI on a large NSF undergraduate scholarship grant, for reorganizing the campus design-your-major program (Individual Studies), cofounding the now Federal Fellows program and for serving on the “four year plans” committee (Student Academic Success Degree Completion Policy). Scott reports that “I have totally enjoyed working with many folks around the campus.”
The Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award honors annually 4-6 tenured faculty members who combine outstanding scholarship with teaching excellence. Selected by a committee of former DSTs based on dossiers containing curriculum vitae, teaching dossier, statement about how the nominee integrates research and teaching, external letters of support from distinguished scholars outside the university, and letters of support from current or past students. DSTs receive $5,000 to support scholarly and instructional activities; they also deliver a public address and may participate in an Honors seminar.
Aside from his major research contributions, Levermore is being honored for his distinguished advising of many PhDs and his curriculum work (along with Doron Levy and Ron Lipsman) on Math 246. In Math 246, we have transitioned from a traditional text to an interactive web experience with text, problems, demos and videos. The web experience is suited to the current generation, and provides student savings of over $150,000 per year.
Date & Time: TBA
Title: "Can We Model Uncertainty?"