Grad News

Congratulations to Silvia Jimenez, doctoral student of Prof. Robert Lipton.  Silvia has won a 3-year research postdoctoral job at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.   Silvia is the fifth pending PhD graduate for 2010 who has won a research postdoctoral position.

Congratulations to Piotr Maciak, doctoral student of Prof. Jorge Morales, who has won a postdoctoral research position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. This is a 9 month position and it starts in January 2011.

Congratulations to Dr. Jasson Vindas, LSU Mathematics PhD graduate and student of Prof. Ricardo Estrada, for winning the annual Distinguished Dissertation Award of the College of Basic Sciences at LSU.

Carolyn Chun, a 2009 LSU Ph.D., received an International Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The NSF program supports “...highly meritorious research and education activities that present unique opportunities and offer potentially high benefits because of the vital and integral nature of the foreign collaboration.” The award will support Dr. Chun's research in combinatorics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Congratulations to Carolyn B. Chun, PhD graduate in 2009, who has won a 24-month International Research Fellowship  from the National Science Foundation.  Carolyn was a student of Prof. James Oxley, and she is working at  Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Congratulations are in order to three pending PhD graduates for this year.

Ms. Anna Zemlyanova, who is a student of Prof. Yuri Antipov, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley for the fall of 2010.

Mr. Santiago Fortes, who is a student of Profs. Robert Lipton and Stephen Shipman, has been awarded a postdoctoral research position at the California Institute of Technology. 

Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence

Anna Zemlyanova

David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award

Sejong Kim

Certificate of Teaching Excellence

Dennis Hall

Fareed Hawwa

Myron Minn-Thu-Aye

Congratulations to Jasson Vindas, doctoral student of Professor Estrada. Jasson has been awarded a three-year Research Postdoctoral Position at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra at the University of Gent in Belgium. 

The Louisiana Board of Regents has awarded the Mathematics Department 3 new Board of Regents Doctoral Fellowships.  These four-year fellowships will be for applicants during the fall and spring of 2009-10 who will begin study in August 2010.  The stipends will be $30,000 per year, with free tuition.  Additional support will be provided for research travel expenses.  The Department's proposal was top-ranked among all departments and subject areas in the state this year.

The National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) has selected graduate student Lee Windsperger to participate in the 2009 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI). During the summer of 2009, Lee will visit the University of Dunedin in New Zealand to do research with Professor Boris Baeumer (LSU Math PhD 1997).