Department News

The Fall Outstanding TA Awards go to Jon Armel and Oded Yacobi - congratulations.
(Dec 15, 2008)

Congratulations to: Aris Alexandradinata, Sarah Elghraoui, Kathryn Farrell, Candice Huynh, Rudy Perkins, Steven Rocha and Brennan Pursley.
(Nov 7, 2008)

Ruth Williams with Amber Puha (CSUSM) and Christian Gromoll (UVa) - received the Best Publication Award from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society.
Citation: For solving outstanding difficult problems concerning processor sharing systems. The award is given every two years.
(Oct 28, 2008)

was recently elected as a Fellow of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
(Oct 21, 2008)

Thursday, October 16, 2008 AP&M B402A ... 11:00 to 12:30pm.
(Oct 14, 2008)

- has been named an ARCS Scholar for 2008-2009.
(Sep 24, 2008)

- received an Honorable Mention at the Householder XVII Symposium for his PhD Dissertation entitled "Measures for Robust Stability and Controllability". Announcement
(Sep 23, 2008)

September 17 to 19, 2008.
All Information
(Aug 21, 2008)

- was held recently at Colorado State University in honor of Adrian Wadsworth. Information
(Jul 16, 2008)

- a Swiss Mathematical Society event was held in Fribourg Switzerland, July 7 to 11 in honor of Linda Rothschild. Information
(Jul 16, 2008)

Congratulations to Jacques Verstraete for being one of the 2008-2009 recipients.
Full list of recipients.
(Jun 17, 2008)

Graduate: 1. Mike Kinnally 2. Chris Nelson
Upper-div: 1. Jeremy Hanson 2. Rene Claus
Lower-div: 1. Jim Quach 2. Chester Ferrer

Congratulations to the winners, thank you to everyone who participated and to Laura Stevens, Bruce Arnold and Will Garner for judging!
(May 22, 2008)

Lecturer Position 2008-2009: Application Deadline May 30, 2008
(May 7, 2008)

Preparing the Next Generation of Secondary Mathematics Teachers: How Pedagogy Emerges from Learning Mathematics May 2-3, 2008 http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fipse/2008
(Apr 17, 2008)

Spring session of the Southern California Number Theory Day at UCSD on Saturday, May 31. Conference website
(Apr 16, 2008)

MAA MathFest, Madison Wisconsin, July 31 2008.
"Intellectual Need and its Role in Mathematical Instruction."
(Apr 11, 2008)

was held on March 29. The workshop was organized by Bruce Arnold and speakers included UCSD Professors, Jeff Rabin and Alfred Manaster. Information.
(Apr 11, 2008)

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - Friday, April 4, 2008.
The department of mathematics is hosting an open house for newly admitted graduate students entering Fall 2008. Program information is now available.
(Mar 27, 2008)

Fan Chung-Graham - Invited Address on "The mathematics of PageRank", Tuesday, Jan 8, 2008
and Audrey Terras - AWM Emmy Noether Lecture on "Fun with zeta functions of graphs", Monday, Jan 7, 2008
General Web Page
(Jan 3, 2008)