Grad News

Jintao Cui, a doctoral student of Professor Susanne Brenner, received student paper prizes awarded at the 2009 SIAM SEAS Spring Meeting held in Columbia, SC. The selection committee was very impressed with his presentation of his research, as well as the contributions his research has made to mathematics.

Congratulations to Jasson Vindas, doctoral student of Ricardo Estrada, who has been awarded the Costa Rica Young Scientist Award. The prize is rotated among the different scientific areas, and is given to a young mathematician every 4 years. The first math winner, in 1992, also has an LSU connection.

Congratulations to Avaro Guevara, doctoral student of Professors Wolenski and Malisoff.  Alvaro has won a two-year Research Postdoctoral Job at the Visual Sensorics and Information Processing Lab (VSI) at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, in collaboration with the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS).

Congratulations to Jintao Cui, who has been awarded a CCT Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for next year.  Also, Jintao has  won a prize for a student paper presented at the SIAM meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, in April.

Congratulations to Leah Childers, to whom the Graduate School has awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship for the coming academic year.  

The LSU Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, the LSU Chapter of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Mathematics Department cosponsored a Career Day for the Mathematics Graduate Students. The purpose was to give advice to students about the job application process and career options. Talks were given by faculty members, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students who are completing their PhD this year.

Congratulations to graduate student Rick Barnard, who was presented with a SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition by Professor Susanne Brenner. Rick was honored for his role in the formation of the chapter and for serving as its first President.

Congratulations to Jens Christensen, doctoral student of Prof. Gestur Olafsson, who has won a two-year Research Postdoctoral position at the Mathematics Department of the University of Maryland. Jens is scheduled to receive his PhD at LSU this summer, and he will be doing research at the University of Maryland Mathematics Department's Norbert Wiener Center. Jens's field of research is harmonic analysis and wavelets.

Congratulations to Adam Lowrance, who has won a research post-doctoral position in Mathematics at the University of Iowa, starting in fall 2009. Adam is currently an NSF VIGRE Trainee at LSU. He is scheduled to complete his PhD this year, working with Prof. Scot Baldridge in topology.

The Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence has been presented to three doctoral students: Carolyn Chun, Jens Christensen, and Adam Lowrance. Carolyn Chun has coauthored four research papers and has presented her research at conferences in both Canada and New Zealand. Jens Christensen has written or coauthored three research papers, presented numerous talks outside LSU, and has spent a Research Semester off campus at MIT, visiting Prof. Sigurdur Helgason. Adam Lowrance has written three research papers and has spent a Research Semester off campus visiting Prof. Peter Ozsvath at Columbia University.