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.
  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2023-24

    Oscar Coppola

    Nicholas Forman

    Ben Goldschlager

    Mohammad Sharifi Kiasari

    Isabelle Stepler

    Leah White

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2022-23

    Pablo Cedillos

    Amandeep Chanda

    Chang Chen

    Foivos Chnaras

    Tyler Clark

    Samuel DiPasqua

    Nathan Janus

    Brandon Kolstoe

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2021-22

Mengting Chao

Prakhar Gupta

Revati Jadhav

Zhirui Li

Jian-Long Liu

David Russell

HaeYun Seo

Max Springer

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2020-21

Jingcheng Lu

Haoran Li

Mariam Askari

Luis Suarez

Zack Greenberg

Shahnawaz Khalid

Nolan Coble

Jiaxin Yuan

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2019-20

Marco Bornstein

Lucas Bouck

Keith Mills

Sheyda Peyman

Ayushi Saxena

Avi Schwarzchild

Shin Eui Song

Melanka Wedige

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2018-19

Kyle Liss

Tong Lu

Steven Reich

Aquia Richburg

Arghya Sadhukhan

Jiaqi Zhou

Sahil Chopra

Eric Kubischta

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2017-18

Charles Daly

Nathan Dykas

Pratima Hebbar

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas

Ayala Nuriely

Eric Oden

Ke Xue

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2016-2017

Kristin Carfora

Liam Fowl

Nicholas Paskal

Tengfei Su

Adil Virani

Nathan Yu

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2015-2016

Sean Ballentine

Chae Clark

Stefan Doboszczak

Rebecca Black

Oliver Rourke

Nakhila Mistry

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2014-2015

Xia Hu

Siming He

Lucia Simonelli

Richard Rast

Ryan Hunter

Patrick Daniels

  • Aziz Osborn Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence 2013-2014

Robert Maschal

Matthew Whiteway

Oliver Lum

Ryan Kirk

Jinhang Xue

Sam Bloom

  • Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence for Graduate Students 2012-2013

Matthew Becker

Colleen Stock

James Murphy

Matt Begue

Jacob Ralston

  • Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence for Graduate Students 2011-2012

Adam Lizzi

Kanna Nakamura

Geoffrey Clapp

Maxx Cho

Jong Jun Lee

  • Gold Medal in Teaching Excellence for Graduate Students 2010-2011

Hana Ueda

Catherine Ochalek

Stephen Balady

Alexander Cloninger

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  • Orbit equivalence relations and the compact action realization problem

    Speaker: Alexander Kechris (CalTech) -

    When: Wed, August 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Multilevel approximation of Gaussian random fields

    Speaker: Christoph Schwab (ETH, Zurich) - https://math.ethz.ch/research/applied-mathematics-numerical-analysis-scientific-computing/christoph-schwab.html

    When: Wed, September 4, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Branching selection particle systems and the selection principle

    Speaker: Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford, Statistics Department) - https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~berestyc/

    When: Wed, September 18, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Artur Avila (IMPA) -

    When: Wed, October 23, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • From Generative AI to Statistical Physics Through Harmonic Analysis

    Speaker: Stephane Mallat (College de France) - https://blog.umd.edu/nwc/fft/2024fft/

    When: Fri, October 25, 2024 - 4:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on homogeneous spaces

    Speaker: Amos Nevo (Technion) -

    When: Wed, October 30, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Ergodic and statistical properties of slowly chaotic systems

    Speaker: Adam Kanigowski (UMD) - https://akanigow.math.umd.edu/

    When: Wed, November 6, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Forbidding Induced Subgraphs: Structure and Algorithms (Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture)

    Speaker: Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton University) - https://web.math.princeton.edu/~mchudnov/

    When: Wed, November 13, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Alessio Figalli (ETH Zurich) - https://people.math.ethz.ch/~afigalli/

    When: Wed, November 20, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Martin's Conjecture and order-preserving functions

    Speaker: Patrick Lutz (UC Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/~pglutz/

    When: Mon, December 9, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Continuous spin systems: group synchronisation and topological phase transitions

    Speaker: Christophe Garban (University of Lyon) - https://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~garban/

    When: Wed, December 11, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mathematical and Historical Aspects of Breaking the Enigma Code

    Speaker: Zbigniew Blocki (Jagiellonian University and UMD) - https://gamma.im.uj.edu.pl/~blocki/

    When: Wed, February 5, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Optimal dimensionality reduction

    Speaker: Albert Cohen ( Sorbonne University) - https://www.ljll.fr/cohen/

    When: Thu, February 13, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Faculty meeting

    When: Wed, February 19, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where:
  • On stabilisations of symplectic 4-manifolds

    Speaker: Amanda Hirschi (Sorbonne Université) - https://amandahirschi.com/

    When: Wed, February 26, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • AWM Talk - Katrin Trent

    Speaker: Katrin Tent (University of Münster) - https://www.uni-muenster.de/FB10srvi/persdb/MM-member.php?id=482

    When: Wed, March 5, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A counterexample to Viterbo's conjecture

    Speaker: Pazit Haim-Kislev (Institute for Advanced Study) - https://www.ias.edu/scholars/pazit-haim-kislev

    When: Wed, March 12, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The P=W Conjecture

    Speaker: Davesh Maulik (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.html?pid=177

    When: Wed, March 26, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Proper graph colouring, optimization, and paradoxical decompositions

    Speaker: Robert Simon (London School of Economics) - https://www.lse.ac.uk/Mathematics/people/Robert-Simon

    When: Wed, April 9, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The Unitary Dual (this colloquium is cancelled)

    Speaker: Jeff Adams (IDA-CCS and UMD) - https://www.math.umd.edu/~jda/

    When: Wed, April 16, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206