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| | | News for the Mathematics Department Alumni and Friends |
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| Message from the Chair | | | | Welcome to the third issue of our electronic newsletter. It focuses on the undergraduate experience first and foremost, as you will see from the order of the newsletter sections. Read on for more about the life of Syracuse University Mathematics Department, and the impact it has beyond the walls of Carnegie Building. Uday Banerjee, Department Chair
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| Undergraduate Student News | | | | Maya Ostoin is a WiSE summer research scholar. Xinxuan Wang won the 2019 Archimedes Prize. Jinyang Zhou won the 2019 Euclid Prize. Xuerui Yang gave a presentation at the 2019 ACC Meeting of the Minds conference. | | | | Mathematics Department awarded two Undergraduate Research Stipends in the year 2019. The winners were Xinxuan Wang and Jinyang Zhou. The students supported by these awards will engage in mathematical research under the direction of a faculty mentor. | | | | Yantao Wu, Xuerui Yang, and Jinyang Zhou represented Syracuse University in the Putnam Mathematical Competition on December 1, 2018. | | | | The Syracuse University chapter of the national mathematics honorary society Pi Mu Epsilon (New York Alpha chapter) welcomed three new members in Spring 2019. |
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| Graduate Student News | | | | Erin Tripp received the 2019 Donald E. Kibbey Prize in Mathematics, defended her Ph.D. dissertation “Structured Sparsity Promoting Functions: Theory and Applications”, and will join the Air Force Research Laboratory after graduation. | | | | The second semester of the graduate-ran Directed Reading Program gave several undergraduates an opportunity to study such diverse topics as machine learning, elliptic-curve cryptography, and game theory. |
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| Faculty News | | | | National Science Foundation recently awarded 3-year research grants to Loredana Lanzani and Lixin Shen, and a 3-year conference grant to Graham Leuschke and Caleb McWhorter. |
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| Alumni Notes | | | | Fred Gard’s path from declaring Mathematics major in 2013 to becoming an Associate of the Society of Actuaries in 2019 can serve as a model for other students looking to connect their mathematical studies to a career. | | | | Our LinkedIn group is for alumni, friends, and current and former faculty, staff, and students of the Syracuse University Department of Mathematics. It is intended as a means for connecting, communicating, and networking. |
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| | “Do math and you can do anything”, they say. What does anything mean for you? Share your news and we will add them to the next newsletter. | | Gifts to the department fund the travel of graduate and undergraduate students, awards for highly accomplished students, speakers and more. |
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