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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  • Divergence-free framings of three-manifolds via eigenspinors

    Speaker: Francesco Lin (Columbia University) - https://www.math.columbia.edu/~flin/

    When: Mon, August 26, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Bi-complex hyperbolic space and SL(3,C)-quasi-Fuchsian representations

    Speaker: Nicholas Rungi (Institut Fourier) - https://sites.google.com/view/nicholasrungiwebpage/home-page

    When: Mon, September 16, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Low-action holomorphic curves and invariant sets

    Speaker: Rohil Prasad (UC Berkeley) - https://r0hilp.github.io/

    When: Mon, September 30, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Khovanov homotopy, strongly invertible knots, and slice disks

    Speaker: Robert Lipshitz (University of Oregon) - https://pages.uoregon.edu/lipshitz/

    When: Mon, October 7, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Energy, triangles and cosmetic surgeries

    Speaker: Aliakbar Daemi (Washington University in St. Louis) - https://www.math.wustl.edu/~adaemi/

    When: Mon, October 14, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
  • The operator method in Heegaard Floer homology

    Speaker: Jake Rasmussen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - https://math.illinois.edu/directory/profile/rasmusj

    When: Mon, October 21, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Framed real monopole Floer homology

    Speaker: Jiakai Li (Harvard University) - http://instantons.org/

    When: Mon, October 28, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Danny Nackan (Yale University) - https://math.yale.edu/people/danny-nackan

    When: Mon, November 4, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Jean Gutt (Maître de Conférences HDR) - https://sites.google.com/site/guttjean/

    When: Mon, November 11, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Recent advances in the theory of k-surfaces

    Speaker: Graham Smith (PUC-Rio) - http://mat.puc-rio.br/~moriarty/

    When: Mon, November 18, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Classification of highly-connected manifolds

    Speaker: Andrew Senger (Harvard University) - https://people.math.harvard.edu/~senger/

    When: Thu, November 21, 2024 - 10:00am
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
  • (Non-) Orderability and the contact Hofer norm

    Speaker: Jakob Hedicke (Université de Montréal ) - https://sites.google.com/view/jakob-hedicke/home

    When: Mon, November 25, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Generalized positive scalar curvature on spin^c manifolds

    Speaker: Boris Botvinnik (University of Oregon) - https://pages.uoregon.edu/botvinn/

    When: Mon, December 9, 2024 - 2:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
  • Short curves of end-periodic mapping tori

    Speaker: Brandis Whitfield (Temple University) - https://sites.google.com/view/algebrandis/

    When: Mon, February 10, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Positive scalar curvature on trivial and nontrivial circle bundles

    Speaker: Aditya Kumar (Johns Hopkins University) - https://sites.google.com/view/adityakm

    When: Mon, February 17, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Global Kuranishi charts for moduli spaces of stable pseudo-holomorphic maps

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

    When: Mon, February 24, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The mapping class group action on the odd character variety is faithful

    Speaker: Christopher Scaduto (University of Miami) - https://www.math.miami.edu/~cscaduto/index.html

    When: Mon, March 3, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • New constructions and invariants of closed exotic 4-manifolds

    Speaker: Adam Levine (Duke University) - https://sites.math.duke.edu/~alevine/

    When: Mon, March 10, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A 0-1 law for horoball packings of coarsely hyperbolic metric spaces

    Speaker: Harry Bray (George Mason University) - https://www.harrisonbray.com/

    When: Mon, March 24, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 0306
  • Homology cobordism and Heegaard Floer homology

    Speaker: Jen Hom (Georgia Tech) - https://jhom6.math.gatech.edu/

    When: Mon, March 31, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Braid varieties from several perspectives

    Speaker: Lenhard Ng (Duke University) - https://sites.math.duke.edu/~ng/

    When: Mon, April 7, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • G_2-instantons on non-compact cohomogeneity one manifolds

    Speaker: Izar Alonso (Rutgers University) - https://sites.google.com/view/izaralonso

    When: Mon, April 14, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Counting Special Lagrangians and Fueter Sections

    Speaker: Saman Habibi Esfahani (Duke University) - https://sites.google.com/stonybrook.edu/sesfahani/home

    When: Mon, April 28, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206