Spring 2003 News and Events in Mathematics
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January 10, 2003:
Professors
David Metzler
and Sergei Pilyugin
were awarded CLAS teaching awards for the 2002-2003 academic
year.
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January, 21, 2003:
Jean Larson
became chair of the UF Faculty Senate and was made the
front page of the Gainesville Sun.
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January 22, 2003:
Helmut Voelklein
gave a one hour address
at the AMS Meeting at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill during October 24-25, 2003.
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February 12, 2003:
Steve Saxon elected Foreign Correspondent
of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003:
Mike Fried
(University of California at Irvine) delivered
The
Second Mathematics Department History Lecture. Title:
What
Gauss told Riemann about Abel's Theorem.
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Monday, February 24, 2003:
Benedict H. Gross (Harvard University) gave the Fifth Annual
Erdos Colloquium. Title:
Automorphisms
of even unimodular lattices.
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March 1-2, 2003:
9th SouthEastern Logic Symposium, organized by
Jindrich Zapletal.
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March 3-7, 2003:
Workshop on
Computational Aspects of Algebraic Curves and Cryptography
organized by
Gerhard Frey
and
Helmut Voelklein.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2003:
Michael Aschbacher (Cal Tech) delivered the
Inaugural Group 2003 Conference Lecture.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2003:
Gerhard Frey (Essen) gave the
Fifth
Ulam Colloquium.
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March 6-12, 2003:
Finite Groups 2003,
an international conference
on Finite Groups and Related Topics, was organized by
C. Y. Ho,
P. Sin,
P. H. Tiep
and
A. Turull.
The
Inaugural Conference Lecture was given
by
Michael Aschbacher (Cal Tech).
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March 17, 2003:
Maia Martcheva
has accepted our offer of a tenure-track
assistant professorship in Biomath.
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March 18, 2003:
The
Third Mathematics Department History Lecture
by
Ronald Solomon (Ohio State) on
A
Historical Survey of the Simple Group Classification.
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Friday, March 21, 2003:
The
Fourth Mathematics Department History Lecture
was given
by
George E. Andrews
(Penn State)
on
Reflections
on the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities in Statistical Mechanics.
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March 21-23, 2003:
Conference on
Number Theory and Combinatorics in Physics
was organized by
F.G. Garvan
and
K.A. Muttalib.
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March 25, 2003:
Yunmei Chen
has been award a three-year term UFRF Professorship for
2003-07 by the University of Florida Research Foundation.
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March 27, 2003:
Micah Coleman (mentored by Miklos Bona)
and
Deniz Kazanci (mentored by David Wilson)
will receive awards under the University Scholars Program.
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April 2, 2003:
Congratulations to
Shari Moskow
and
Tim Olson who
have been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor.
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April 24, 2003: Annual Recognition Day and Tea
was held in the Atrium. Earlier in the day we heard lecture presentations
on the work of our retiring faculty: Professors Beverly Brechner,
Nicolae Dinculeanu, Zoran Pop-Stojanovic, and Steve Saxon.
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April 7, 2003:
Alexandru Scorpan
(PhD. UC Berkeley 2003) has accepted
our offer of the John G. Thompson Research Assistant
Professorship.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 : Mathematics Department Spring Picnic
organized by the GMA was held at
Kanapaha Park and Veteran's Memorial.
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April 26, 2003:
Liqing Yan
(USC) has accepted
our offer of a tenure-track
assistant professorship in Probability.
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EVENTFUL SPRING 2003
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