| Polunchenko wins IMS Laha Award | |
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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Laha Travel Award is awarded annually to students and recent graduates to travel to the IMS annual meeting to present their work. Funding for the award comes from the generous bequest by the late Professor Radha Govind Laha. |
| 2011 CAMS Graduate Prizes Announced | |
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The 2011 CAMS Graduate Student Prize for excellence in research with a substantial mathematical component have been awarded to
Yi Gai (EE) and Subhankar Ghosh (MATH) The award ceremony will take place on Friday May 6 in 410 KAP at 3:00 pm |
| Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Mathematics Lectures | |
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George Andrews (PSU) will deliver the 2011 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Mathematics Lectures. See the Poster for more information. |
Conference on K-theory and Motives |
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The conference ``K-theory and motives," will be held at UCLA on the occasion of Andrei Suslin's 60th birthday from March 22-25, 2011. For registration information and a list of speakers see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~k-theory2010/ . |
USC-UCLA REU Opportunity |
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The USC Department of Mathematics is participating in an NSF sponsored REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) based at UCLA and under the direction of Andrea Bertozzi. The participants in the REU are to be students from the various universities in the Southern California region. The REU runs from June 13th to the first week in August and the students are given a stipend of $6000 intended to pay for housing, food and transportation. More information regarding the program and the application is available at: https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/56 . |
Mohammed Ziane promoted to Full Professor |
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Professor Mohammed Ziane promoted to Full Professor |
Aaron Lauda appointed Assistant Professor |
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Aaron Lauda, recently appointed as Assistant Professor TT beginning Fall 2011, wins Sloan Research Fellowship |
New NTT Hires for Fall '11 |
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Statistics Minor |
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The Department of Mathematics is offering a minor in statistics with the goal of making it accessible, appealing, and most significantly, useful, to as wide of an audience as possible. The minor will consist of two required classes, which will provide the student with a basic understanding of the mathematical underpinnings of statistical analysis, a basic introduction to state of the art statistical and data analysis techniques, instruction in the use of modern statistical software, and exposure to a variety of important applications of statistical inference. |
NSF Awards Focused Research Grant to USC |
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In April, the USC Mathematics Department was awarded a Focused Resaerch Group (FRG) Grant from the National Science Foundation in pure mathematics. Principal investigators Eric Friedlander and Aravind Asok (with co-principal investigators Christian Haesemeyer at UCLA; Mark Walker at University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and Chuck Weibel at Rutgers University) will conduct collaborative research to study classical questions in algebraic geometry using invariants of varieties arising from homotopy theory. See here for more information. |
2010 CAMS Graduate Prizes Announced |
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2010 CAMS Graduate Student Prizes awarded to Vlad Vicol (Mathematics) and Mahyar Salek (Computer Science) |
Jay Bartroff receives Borchard Foundation grant |
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Assistant Professor Jay Bartroff awarded Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation grant for Fall 2010 |
New NTT Hires for Fall '10 |
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Susan Montgomery selected as 2011 Noether Lecturer |
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Professor Susan Montgomery selected to be 2011 Noether Lecturer |
Graduate student news |
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Graduate Student Julien Roger accepts Hill Assistant Professorship at Rutgers Graduate Student Vlad Vicol accepts L.E. Dickson instructorship at University of Chicago Former Graduate Student Nathan Glatt-Holtz awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Eric Friedlander elected President of the AMS |
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Dean's Professor of Mathematics Eric Friedlander elected President of the American Mathematical Society |
Ko Honda wins Japan Math Society Geometry Prize |
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Professor Ko Honda wins Geometry Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan |
Jason Fullman promoted to Full Professor |
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Professor Jason Fulman promoted to Full Professor |
For more news, see the Department Newsletter (December 2009).
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The department has graduate programs leading to master’s and Ph.D. degrees in pure and applied mathematics and offers specialized professional master’s degrees in financial mathematics, bioinformatics and statistics. In addition, we have undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in both mathematics and applied mathematics, and we offer a combined undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics. Our progressive degree programs enable exceptionally well-prepared students to pursue a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in mathematics simultaneously. We also offer a minor in mathematics.