Professor Henry Wolkowicz has been selected as a SIAM Fellow for contributions to convex optimization and matrix theory. Fellowships honour SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by the organization.
At the Math Faculty Awards Banquet on January 29, 2015, Rutger Campbell and Nathaniel Horvath received the C&O and OR book prizes for their excellent performances during their undergraduate studies. Rutger is a Combinatorics & Optimization and Pure Math double major, and has held undergraduate research assistantships with Peter Nelson and Jim Geelen.
Recently, Professor Dan Younger uncovered in his office a letter from Bill Tutte written in Newmarket, England, dated July 7, 1996.
The letter, which can be viewed as a self-portrait, describes the events
of the prior several weeks, including his first visit to Bletchley Park
since the end of World War II.
On October 31, 2014, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ron Mullin (pictured on the left with Professor Dan Younger) delivered a lecture "A set-theoretic approach to fractional iterates" in the department's weekly Tutte seminar. Ron presented a new result that answered a question that Bill Tutte has posed to him in 1964.
On the 20th anniversary of Shor's algorithms for breaking factoring and discrete log based cryptosystems, there is a new landscape of quantum tools and intensifying efforts worldwide to build large-scale quantum computers. The aim of the PQCrypto conferences is to serve as a forum for researchers to present results and exchange ideas on the topic of cryptography in an era with large-scale quantum computers.
Hangmeng (Harmony) Zhan is a recipient of the Cotton Family Women in Mathematics Graduate Scholarship for 2014. This scholarship is awarded annually to a full-time, female graduate student based on academic excellence in her studies and/or research.
