Please join us in congratulating Abba Gumel and Larry Washington for being elected as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Abba was noted for his contributions to the mathematical theory of epidemics, applied dynamical systems, and promoting the use of mathematics to help solve global health challenges.
Larry was noted for his contributions to number theory, especially cyclotomic fields, and for mentoring at all levels.
The full list of the class of 2023 AMS fellows is posted at https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows_by_year.cgi
Congratulations Abba and Larry!
Congratulations to Dmitry Dolgopyat (Mathematics), Richard Greene
These faculty members are world-renowned in their fields and it’s wonderful to see their accomplishments recognized by the university in this way.
You can read more about these professors following this link: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4968
Congratulations again Dmitry, Richard and Zhanqing!
Congratulations to Radu Balan and to the UMD Math Modeling teams. The teams participated in the 2022 Interdisciplinary Competition in Modeling (ICM). This year 12100 teams participated in the ICM competition. The results of our two teams are:
This result puts the team in the 3%-30% range, out of 2964 teams worldwide who submitted solutions to problem F.
This result places the team in the 30%-96% range, out of 8181 international teams who submitted solutions to problem E.
Congratulations!
We are pleased to inform you that Joan Jian-Jian Ren was named as a Fellow of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics).
Joan Jian-Jian Ren, Professor, University of Maryland - College Park, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Dr. Ren received the award for innovative and significant contributions to statistical methodology, especially in nonparametric likelihood inference, survival analysis and resampling methods, and for long-lasting and dedicated professional service.
The designation of IMS Fellow has been a significant honor for over 85 years. Each Fellow is assessed by a committee of their peers and has demonstrated distinction in research or leadership that has profoundly influenced the field.
Created in 1935, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is a member organization that fosters the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The IMS has 4,200 active members throughout the world. Approximately 10% of the current IMS membership has earned the status of fellowship.
Follow this link to view the other fellows: https://imstat.org/2022/04/22/2022-ims-fellows-announced/
Three University of Maryland undergraduates with strong records of published research have been awarded 2022 scholarships by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and research careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics.
Patrick Kim, a junior physics and electrical engineering double-degree student; George Li, a sophomore computer science and mathematics double-degree student; and Kevin Tu, a junior biological sciences and economics double-degree student are among 417 Goldwater Scholars selected from 1,242 nominees nationally. Goldwater Scholars receive one- or two-year scholarships that cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board up to $7,500 per year.
The rest of the article can be read following this link: https://cmns.umd.edu/
Bianca Viray, a professor at the University of Washington (UMD 2005), has been awarded the AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars for the 2022–2023 academic year. The fellowship gives exceptionally talented women extra research support during their mid-career years. The primary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate's research.
An arithmetic geometer, Viray researches rational points on varieties, particularly how a variety’s geometric properties influence failures of the local-to-global principle. “My research projects are broadly motivated by wanting to understand arithmetic properties of a variety as we extend the base field, and what the sets of points look like over extensions,” she said.
Recently, Viray has studied degree d points, considering solubility over unions of extensions of bounded or prescribed degree. During her fellowship year, she will take part in a program on Diophantine geometry at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Viray will also host collaborators including Brendan Creutz of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).
“I am honored to be awarded this prestigious fellowship in recognition of my research and thankful for my many wonderful mentors, collaborators, and colleagues who have supported me through my career,” she said.
Viray earned her PhD in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley. She was at Brown University from 2010 until 2014 as a Tamarkin Assistant Professor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. She joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 2014. In the 2021–2022 academic year, she is a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
An active organizer in the mathematics community, Viray is a co-founder of the paraDIGMS (Diversity in Graduate Mathematical Sciences) initiative and a member of the board of directors of Girls’ Angle. She is also a member at large of the AMS Council and a Fellow of the AMS. Read a Simons Foundation profile of Viray, who was named a 2020 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
The AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars, established in 2017 with a gift from Joan and Joseph Birman, seeks to address the paucity of women at the highest levels of research in mathematics by giving exceptionally talented women extra research support during their mid-career years. The primary selection criterion for the Birman Fellowship is the excellence of the candidate's research. See past recipients and read about their experiences with the fellowship (PDF).
Contact: AMS Communications.
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