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Richard Ng, Dmitri Nikshych, Eric Rowell and Zhenghan Wang are organizing a Conference on Modular Categories -- Their Representations, Classification, and Applications in Oaxaca, Mexico. The conference is sponsored by the Banff International Research Station.

Six Math Majors were among the 43 Spring 2015 University Medalists. The University Medal is awarded to graduating LSU seniors with a perfect 4.0 GPA:

The recent issue of Annals of Combinatorics has been dedicated to Boyd Professor James Oxley, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The focus of this special issue is matroid theory, a subject to which James contributed most of his over 140 research papers, and on which he wrote the authoritative monograph.

LSU Math Major Bruno Beltran was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in Systems and Molecular Biology. He spends this semester at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale University.

Bruno Beltran is in the process of completing his Honors Thesis under Professor Neubrander. He was a 2013 recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship.

LSU Math Major Rachael Keller was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She will be starting her PhD studies in the Fall at Columbia University's Applied Math Program.

Rachael Keller is in the process of completing her Honors Thesis under Prof. Dasbach. Recently, she was featured in the news of the LSU Honors College.

Math instructor Dottie Vaughn won this years Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding
Instructor Award on February 24, 2015. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest
all-discipline honor society.  Dottie Vaughn was honored for her innovative