DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS : DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS A remarkably young faculty: 19 Professors 5 Associate Professors 16 Assistant Professors 12 Visiting Assistant Professors 3 Lecturers Hans Johnston – Scientific computation, numerical analysis, fluids Ph.D. 1999, Temple U.; Postdoc: U. Michigan Anna Liu – Nonparametric statistics, smoothing, biostatistics Ph.D. 2004, UC Santa Barbara Thomas Weston – Number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry Ph.D. 2000, Harvard U.; Postdocs: UC Berkeley, U. Michigan and Amherst C.

SOME FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS : SOME FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS Panos Kevrekidis - NSF CAREER grant 2004 (only 20 awards nationally) - Second round finalist for University DTA Siman Wong - 2004-05 Lilly Fellow - Innovations in Math 471: cyrptography and computation in number theory and abstract algebra Rob Kusner and Michael Sullivan - Year-long invited visitors to geometry program at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

SOME GRADUATE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS : SOME GRADUATE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Nikos Tzirakas (Ph.D. 2004) - Clay Foundation Liftoff Fellow - Postdoctoral position at IAS Princeton, then U. Toronto Zoe Rapti (Ph.D. 2004) - Postdoctoral position at IAS Princeton Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis - Marie Curie Fellow for Summer 2004 at U. of Warwick (U.K.) James Campbell - Second round DTA finalist, second year as nominee - Summer research fellow at Technical University Berlin Raja Nageswaran - Fellow in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

SOME DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM : SOME DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM 280+ Majors Redesigned Math 300 - Bill Meeks (G.D. Birkhoff Chair) developed new approach to this key transition course for majors - Challenging topics list with individual lots of help from instructor and course assistants - Rave reviews from students (and even their parents) Invigorated Summer Research Experiences for Undergrads - 9 students worked on projects ranging from math biology to number theory - Individual meetings with faculty and weekly group meetings coordinated by Chief Undergrad Advisor, Peter Norman - Stipends funded by NSF or from Departmental gift account New Scholarships - Five $1000 scholarships for math majors funded by donor Increasing enrollments in all upper-division courses