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

“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 represented the American Mathematical Society at the 11th annual exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding held June 21, 2005 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Lipton presented an exhibit on Mathematics for Advanced Composites Technology highlighting recent work on multi-scale stress assessment inside random heterogeneous media.

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.

LSU Math Department has been selected to participate in the Roadmap to Redesign (R2R) Program.