Recent News and Events
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Sept. 10-14, 2007:
Group
Representations and Combinatorics Conference
organized by P. H. Tiep and P. Sin.
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September 12, 2007:
SPECIAL
HISTORY LECTURE by Professor Michel Broué
(L'Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris) on
Local Group Theory: from Frobenius to Rickard
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September 27, 2007:
Prof. William Hager PI
on $1,000,000 NSF award for lightning research
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September 27, 2007:
Prof. Miklos Bona
collaborates with CISE and BioChem on $500,000 NSF award
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October 1, 2007
Contributions to Mathematical Physics -
A tribute to Gerard Emch edited by Twareque S. Ali and Kalyan B. Sinha
Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi 2007 (xviii+217 pages)
has just appeared. It is a collection of papers
dedicated to Professor Emch who retired in Spring 2005.
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October 1, 2007:
Graduate Research Professor John Thompson will receive an Honorary
Doctorate from Ohio State University during their March 2008
Commencement, as well as delivering a series of lectures.
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October 2, 2007:
The 2007
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Professor Ben Green
(Cambridge, England)
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October 10, 2007
Prof. Douglas
Cenzer PI on $580,000 NSF Randomness award
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November 14, 2007:
David Leavitt (Dept. of English) gave our first
JOINT
MATHEMATICS-ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
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November 20, 2007:
Professor
Andrews elected President of AMS
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December 7, 2007:
DEPARTMENT ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY
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December 12, 2007:
Miklos Bona wins Howard Hughes Medical Institute Award for mentoring
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January 25, 2008:
Tenth Erdos
Colloquium by Efim Zelmanov (UCSD) on
Asymptotic Properties of Infinite Families of Finite Groups.
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February 4, 2008:
Special
History Lecture by George Andrews (Penn. State)
on
Euler's contributions to "Partitio Numerorum"
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February 18, 2008:
Tenth Ulam
Colloquium by Dominique Foata (Strasbourg)
on
Eulerian Polynomials: From Euler's Time to the Present.
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February 21 - 24, 2008:
Chat Yin Ho Memorial Conference on Combinatorics and Groups
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February 25, 2008:
Special Math History Colloquium
by Gerard Emch (UF Professor Emeritus)
on
Three mathematical conflicts revisited in the light of probatio
duplex.
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March 1 - 2, 2008:
13th SouthEastern
Logic Symposium
(organized by Jindrich Zapletal)
This page gives links to old news and events since Spring 2000.
In a major effort to stimulate research and education, the University of Florida
Mathematics Department has set a program of conducting special years in
various areas.
In 2005, Krishna Alladi was instrumental in establishing the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
This is an annual international prize of $10,000 to be given to
young mathematics for outstanding contributions to areas of mathematics
influenced by Ramanujan.
This page lists conferences in the Department of Mathematics since 1994.
Below is list of future conferences.
The Kermit Sigmon Scholarship ($100) is awarded in the spring each year
for a promising undergraduate mathematics major, in recognition of the
dedication of
Kermit
Sigmon to undergraduate teaching and the mathematics
major.
For the History of the Mathematics Department...
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