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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  • Efficient interpretable regression and classification with translation-invariance

    Speaker: Matt Landreman (Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics, UMD) - https://ireap.umd.edu/clark/faculty/1279/Matt-Landreman

    When: Tue, September 9, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f107d126-5ac3-4c0c-b7f0-b35301589819
  • Towards Robust Discretization of PDEs Posed on Surfaces

    Speaker: Mansur Shakipov (Department of Mathematics, UMD) -

    When: Tue, September 16, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b1e9c8f9-d248-4183-8332-b35a0158d82e
  • Digital Twins, Generative AI, and Beyond: A PDE–Constrained Optimization Perspective

    Speaker: Harbir Antil (George Mason University) - https://math.gmu.edu/~hantil/

    When: Tue, September 23, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Virtues and Pitfalls of Weak-to-Strong Generalization: From Intrinsic Dimensions to Spurious Correlations

    Speaker: Qi Lei (New York University) - https://cecilialeiqi.github.io/

    When: Tue, September 30, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Where do all the scores come from? – generation accuracy of diffusion model, and multimodal sampling via denoising annealing

    Speaker: Molei Tao (Gatech) - https://mtao8.math.gatech.edu/

    When: Tue, October 7, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Time-dependent Hamiltonian Simulation: Quantum Algorithm and Superconvergence

    Speaker: Di Fang (Duke University) - https://sites.math.duke.edu/~difang/

    When: Tue, October 21, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Analysis of a finite element method for PDEs in evolving domains with topological changes

    Speaker: Maxim Olshanskii (University of Houston) - https://www.math.uh.edu/~molshan/

    When: Tue, October 28, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Continuous Data Assimilation Using Non-Interpolant Observables

    Speaker: Vladimir Yushutin (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) - https://web.math.utk.edu/~vyushuti/landing/index.html

    When: Tue, November 4, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Convergence of a finite element discretization of Chorin's projection method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to Leray-Hopf solutions

    Speaker: Franziska Weber (UC Berkeley ) - https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/fweber/home?authuser=0

    When: Tue, November 11, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Parsimonious recovery of cryo-em ensemble probabilities

    Speaker: Luke Evans (Flatiron Institute ) - https://users.flatironinstitute.org/~levans/

    When: Tue, November 18, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Structure-preserving finite element methods for the surface Stokes problem

    Speaker: Michael Neilan (University of Pittsburgh) -

    When: Tue, November 25, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Quantum algorithms for differential equations (Cancelled)

    Speaker: Xiantao Li (Penn State University) - https://xxl12.github.io/main/

    When: Tue, December 2, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206