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Professor Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon) will deliver the 2018 Porcelli Lectures. Irene Fonseca is the Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University.

"Mathematics and Imaging Science"
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 2:30pm-3:20pm, Dodson Auditorium
This lecture will be accessible to a general audience, including high school students.

"Mathematics and Materials Science"
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 4:10pm-5:00pm, Dodson Auditorium

"Homogenization of Integral Energies"
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 10:30am-11:20am, Digital Media Center Theater

Abstracts and more information are available on the departmental calendar.

Matt Barnes is the recipient of the 2018 Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award.

This award recognizes outstanding teaching ability and service to students.

Dr. Julia Ledet is the recipient of the 2018 George H. Deer Distinguished Teaching Award. 
This award is made in memory of George H. Deer, Ph.D., former Dean of University College (1959-1966). The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding teaching at LSU.

Irina Holmes (PhD 2014, Advisor: Ambar Sengupta) accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M. Irina Holmes was a Postdoc at Georgia Tech from 2014-2016. She received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship that she spent at Washington University in St. Louis (2016-2017) and Michigan State University (since 2017).

Professor Susanne C. Brenner was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany.

A mini course on three important conjectures in Geometry and Geometric analysis will take place at LSU, February 9-11, 2018. The three main lecturers are: Peter Casazza (University of Missouri) on the Feichtinger Conjecture, Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester) on the Falconer Conjecture and Palle Jorgensen (University of Iowa) on the Fuglede conjecture. See https://www.math.lsu.edu/~analysis2018/ for details.

Professor Susanne C. Brenner was named Boyd Professor by the LSU Board of Supervisors on Friday, December 8th, 2017.

Professors Richard Ng, Michael Freedman & Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara), Eric Rowell (Texas A&M) and Xiao-Gang Wen (Physics, MIT) were awarded a $1.3 Million collaborative NSF-Focus Research Grant on "Mathematical Foundations of Topological Quantum Computation and its Applications".

The research will cover the mathematical, physical, and computational aspects of topological quantum computation.