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 Scott Wolpert, professor emeritus of mathematics, who was named principal investigator of a new project to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in mathematics departments. The project is funded by a $600,000 grant from the NSF, and it will provide DEI training to six representatives of math and statistics departments over two successive summers. Participants will ultimately launch DEI initiatives in their respective schools that put what they learned into practice.
Our announcement is available on the CMNS website: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-
Congratulations again, Scott!