Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence

Dr. A. Kadir Aziz has named this fund in memory of Professor Emeritus John E. Osborn.  Professor Osborn received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1965 and went on to spend his entire career at the University of Maryland, where he specialized in numerical analysis and elliptic partial differential equations.  He served with distinction as Chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1982-1985 and as Acting or Interim Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences from 1989-90 and 1998-99.  He was instrumental in the SCHOL project to update the Department of Mathematics’ undergraduate curriculum.  In September 2000, a conference on Finite Element Analysis and Eigenvalue Problems was held in his honor.  Although Professor Osborn officially retired at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year, he continued to be an active participant in department seminars and affairs up until his death on May 30, 2011, at the age of 74.

2024-25 Recipients

Bilal Aytekin

Leanna Breland

Owen Guch

Qihang Li

Noorain Noorani

Michael Rozowski

Valerie Wray

2023-24 Recipients

Oscar Coppola

Nicholas Forman

Ben Goldschlager

Mohammad Sharifi Kiasari

Isabelle Stepler

Leah White

2022-23 Recipients

Pablo Cedillos

Amandeep Chanda

Chang Chen

Foivos Chnaras

Tyler Clark

Samuel DiPasqua

Nathan Janus

Brandon Kolstoe

2021-22 Recipients

Mengting Chao

Prakhar Gupta

Revati Jadhav

Zhirui Li

Jian-Long Liu

David Russell

HaeYun Seo

Max Springer

2020-21 Recipients

Jingcheng Lu

Haoran Li

Mariam Askari

Luis Suarez

Zack Greenberg

Shahnawaz Khalid

Nolan Coble

Jiaxin Yuan

2019-20 Recipients

Marco Bornstein

Lucas Bouck

Keith Mills

Sheyda Peyman

Ayushi Saxena

Avi Schwarzchild

Shin Eui Song

Melanka Wedige

2018-19 Recipients

Kyle Liss

Tong Lu

Steven Reich

Aquia Richburg

Arghya Sadhukhan

Jiaqi Zhou

Sahil Chopra

Eric Kubischta

2017-18 Recipients

Charles Daly

Nathan Dykas

Pratima Hebbar

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas

Ayala Nuriely

Eric Oden

Ke Xue

2016-2017 Recipients

Kristin Carfora

Liam Fowl

Nicholas Paskal

Tengfei Su

Adil Virani

Nathan Yu

2015-2016 Recipients

Sean Ballentine

Chae Clark

Stefan Doboszczak

Rebecca Black

Oliver Rourke

Nakhila Mistry

2014-2015 Recipients

Xia Hu

Siming He

Lucia Simonelli

Richard Rast

Ryan Hunter

Patrick Daniels

2013-2014 Recipients

Robert Maschal 

Matthew Whiteway

Oliver Lum

Ryan Kirk

Jinhang Xue

Sam Bloom

2012-2013 Recipients

Matthew Becker

Colleen Stock

James Murphy

Matt Begue

Jacob Ralston

2011-2012 Recipients

Adam Lizzi

Kanna Nakamura

Geoffrey Clapp

Maxx Cho

Jong Jun Lee

2010-2011 Recipients

Hana Ueda

Catherine Ochalek

Stephen Balady

Alexander Cloninger

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  • The Unitary Dual

    Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (University of Maryland) - https://math.umd.edu/~jda/

    When: Wed, September 17, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Common divisors of binomial coefficients and invariable generation of finite simple groups

    Speaker: John Shareshian (Washington University ) - https://math.wustl.edu/people/john-shareshian

    When: Wed, September 24, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Artificial Intelligence: Thinking, fast and slow

    Speaker: Jim Yorke (University of Maryland) - https://www-math.umd.edu/people/faculty/item/528-yorke.html

    When: Wed, October 1, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • From simple groups to symmetries of surfaces

    Speaker: Rachel Skipper (University of Utah) -

    When: Wed, October 8, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Landscapes of harmonic maps (cancelled)

    Speaker: Antoine Song (Caltech) - https://www.pma.caltech.edu/people/antoine-song

    When: Wed, December 3, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Ioana (TBA)

    Speaker: Adrian Ioana (University of California, San Diego) - https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~aioana/

    When: Wed, February 4, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • An Invitation to Quantum Optimal Transport

    Speaker: Francois Golse (Douglis Memorial Lecture speaker) (École Polytechnique) - https://www.cmls.polytechnique.fr/perso/golse/

    When: Wed, February 11, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • (Rieffel) Quantum error correction, from its beginnings in stabilizer codes to a new family of Floquet codes

    Speaker: Eleanor Rieffel (NASA) - https://www.nasa.gov/people/eleanor-rieffel/

    When: Wed, February 18, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • (Kedlaya) Space vectors forming rational angles

    Speaker: Kiran Kedlaya (University of California San Diego) - https://kskedlaya.org/

    When: Wed, February 25, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Aziz Lecture (Dr. Jose Carillo, Oxford University)

    When: Wed, March 11, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where:
  • The Fatou-Sullivan dictionary and Thurston's questions

    Speaker: Mahan Mj (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) - https://mathweb.tifr.res.in/~mahan/

    When: Wed, April 8, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA (Katz)

    Speaker: Eric Katz (The Ohio State University ) - https://people.math.osu.edu/katz.60/

    When: Wed, April 22, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • (Wenzl) TBA

    Speaker: Hans Wenzl (University of California at San Diego) - https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~hwenzl/

    When: Wed, April 29, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (UMD) - https://sites.google.com/view/srivatsavke/home

    When: Wed, May 6, 2026 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206