Awards

Professor Pallavi Dani is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). The Michler Prize is awarded annually to a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor in the mathematical sciences. The prize provides a \$47,000 fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.

From left to right: Bruno Beltran (Stanford), Jason Mueller (Bristol), Rachael Keller (Columbia), Paxton Turner (MIT), and Avery St. Dizier (Cornell).

2015 LSU Math graduating seniors will be entering some of the top PhD and Masters programs:

Simon Pfeil is a recipient of the Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award 2015 in recognition of his outstanding teaching ability and service to students. 

Graduate Math Students Awards

• Susan Abernathy and Dennis Hall received the David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award
• Bir Kafle, Simon Pfeil, Eyad Said, Jesse Taylor, and Robert Viator received Certificates of Teaching Excellence
• Peter Lambert-Cole received Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence
• Dennis Hall received Pasquale Porcelli Certificate of Research Excellence

Departmental Service Award

• George Cochran received the departmental Service Award

Faculty who won LSU Awards

• James Oxley has been appointed Boyd Professor
• Michael Malisoff has been appointed Roy Paul Daniels Professor
• Professor Guoli Ding received the Distinguished Faculty Award
• Debra Kopcso received the Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award (College of Science)
• Dottie Vaughn received the Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award (University College)

From left: Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, Laura Rider, Joel Geiger, Timothy Shatley, Jesse Taylor, Jake Blanton, Jacob Matherne, and Irina Holmes

Departmental Fall 2012 Awards

• Laura Rider received Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence.
• Yi Zhang received Pasquale Porcelli Certificate of Research Excellence.
• Jacob Blanton and Jesse Taylor received David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award.
• Joel Geiger, Irina Holmes, Jacob Matherne, Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, and Timothy Shatley received Certificates of Teaching Excellence.
• Professor Jacek Cygan was recognized for his 31.5 years of distinguished service to the department upon his retirement.

Congratulations to all!

• Xuanting Cai received Pasquale Porcelli Award for Graduate Research Excellence.
• Irina Holmes received David Oxley Graduate Student Teaching Award.
• Susan Abernathy, Jacob Matherne, Trevor McGuire, Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, and Jesse Taylor received Certificates of Teaching Excellence.

Aleksandra Gruszka, a PhD student of Professor Michael Malisoff, was one of five students selected as finalists for the Student Best Paper Award at the 2011 American Control Conference-ACC 2011, held in San Francisco, June 29 - July 1, 2011. For more information about this award, see the ACC-2011 website. An extended version of this paper has already been accepted for publication in the journal International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.