The students’ research interests range from algebraic geometry to number theory and applied mathematics.

Eleven graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland received 2021-22 Herbert A. Hauptman Endowed Graduate Fellowships. 

The fellowship program was created with an estate gift from Carol Fullerton that honors the memory of her late father, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Hauptman (Ph.D. ’55, mathematics), and launched in 2020 thanks to a gift from Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics James A. Yorke (Ph.D. ’66, mathematics). 

The 2021-22 Hauptman Fellows are:

• Priyankur Chaudhuri, algebraic geometry
• Yunjiang Ge, bioinformatics/biostatistics
• Jackson Hopper, representation theory
• Elliott Lehrer, algebraic number theory
• Qihang Li, number theory
• Michael Rawson, harmonic and signal processing
• Arpith Shanbhag, algebraic geometry
• Stephen Sorokanich, applied mathematics
• Tessa Thorsen, applied mathematics
• Gustavo Varela-Alvarenga, statistics
• Xuze Zhang, semiparametric statistics and time series analysis