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Professor Gestur Olafsson has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Lie Theory.

The following major awards and named professorships were given to the departmental personnel in 2005:

• Frank Neubrander: The Demarcus D. Smith Alumni Professorship
• Peter Wolenski: LSU Distinguished Faculty Award
• DesLey Plaisance: BP Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
• DesLey Plaisance: Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Gerry Fitch: Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Reena Kothari: Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Julius Esunge: David Oxley Memorial Graduate Teaching Award, Spring Semester

“Introduction to Stochastic Integration” by Professor Hui-Hsiung Kuo has been published by the Springer-Verlag Universitext series.

Professor Robert Lipton has been appointed to the AMS Committee on Science Policy.

Alumni Professor Frank Neubrander is now the PI of a 1.5 million dollar 3 year NSF GK-12 grant.

Professor Robert Lipton is representing the American Mathematical Society atthe 11th annual exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding held June 21, 2005 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Congratulations to Professor Frank Neubrander who was named an LSU Alumni Professor and to Professor Peter Wolenski who received an LSU Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award.

Professor Ambar Sengupta latest book "Pricing Derivatives" was just released by McGraw-Hill.

Congratulations to Robert Osburn (LSU Ph.D. 2001) who has been appointed Permanent Lecturer at University College Dublin.

Congratulations to 1996 LSU alumnus, Yongdo Lim, who won a prize from the Korean Mathematics Society for the best paper of the year by a Korean mathematician. The prize was for his paper 'Birkhoff formula for conformal compressions of symmetric cones,' which appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics.