Student News

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Graduate teaching assistants Olivia Cannon, Andy Hardt, and Michelle Pinharry received the 2018-19 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The instructional evaluation committee received 500 nominations from students in support of their Math TAs. Math major Henry Twiss received a 2020 Goldwater Scholarship. Math majors Ashleigh Adams, Anuraag Bukkuri, and Jacob Ogden were awarded Graduate Research Fellowships in the Mathematical Sciences from the National Science Foundation.

Math majors Angela Chen, Moriah Elkin, Jackson Hampton, Monica Iram, and Deborah Rodriguez received 2020-21 merit scholarships from the College of Science and Engineering. Thirty-three math majors will be awarded 2020-21 departmental merit scholarships from the Christofferson, Dalaker, Gilquist, Lando, Othmer, Rasmussen, and Thorp funds, totaling $82,000. One hundred eighty one undergraduates applied for Spring or Summer 2020 graduation with a BA or BS in Mathematics. Faculty advisers selected ten Outstanding Graduates in Mathematics for 2020:

Bernardo Bianco Prado will pursue a PhD in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Kenrick Bjelland will work as a software engineer. Daniel Fuszard will work as an actuarial analyst at Optum. Beren Gunsolus will pursue a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. Bella Horton will pursue a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University. Sean McNally will pursue a PhD in Mathematics at Georgia Tech. Jacob Ogden will pursue a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Washington. Rebecca Rechkin will pursue a PhD in mathematics at the University of Utah. Devon Tuma will pursue a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. Julie Yuan will work as a software engineer at Facebook.

GRADUATE PROGRAM

Graduate Student Fellowship Awards

Richard McGehee, Director of Graduate Studies in Mathematics and The Graduate School congratulates the following graduate students who received fellowships. Avery, Montie, 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship, Arnd Scheel, advisor Brauner, Sarah, 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship, Victor Reiner, advisor Jankvic, Salomeam, 2019 School of Mathematics Mark Feshbach Fellowship, Richard McGehee, advisor Keenan, Liam, 2019 School of Mathematics John Ordway Fellowship, Tyler Lawson, advisor Ohm, Laurel, 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Robust Energy Landscapes of Non-convex Structured Data Problems, Yoichiro Mori and Daniel Spirn, advisor and co-advisor Mastrianni, Michelle, 2019 School of Mathematics Fellowship, Victor Reiner, advisor Sayrafi, Mahrud, 2019 School of Mathematics John Ordway Fellowship, Christine Berkesch, advisor

PhD Graduating Students

Richard McGehee, Director of Graduate Studies in Mathematics and The Graduate School congratulate our recent graduating PhD students (March 2018 to February, 2019). Bahran, Cihan, Categorifying Induction Formulae via divergent Series, Peter Webb, advisor Baker, Brittany, How dynamical regime and neuronal network structure influence synchronous events, Duane Nykamp, advisor

Broomfield, James, Invariant Euler-Lagrange-Equations for Variational Problems Defined over Framed Curves in Two and Three Dimensions, Peter Olver, advisor, Data Scientist, EcoLab, Eagan, MN Collazos, Steven, Coding Properties of Firing Rate Models with Low-Rank Synaptic Weight Matrices, Duane Nykamp, advisor; Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN