UF Mathematics

Spring 2002
Appreciation Day

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On April 25, 2002, the Department of Mathematics showed appreciation to students, staff and faculty.

Pi Mu Epsilon

(Faculty Advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King, and Pham Huu Tiep)
  • President: Stephen Hicks
  • VP/Treasurer: Joe Stanis
  • Secretary: Nick Mecholsky

Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King, and Pham Huu Tiep))

Putnam Exam Team:
Stephen Hicks   Mike Damon   Peter Nguyen

The team finished with a rank of 130 out of 336. The other participants from UF were Romel Franca, Atchar Sudhyadhom, and Nicholas Scheiner.

Kermit Sigmon Scholarship

(Selection committee chair: Bruce Edwards)
  • Julie St. Germaine-Critelli

Robert Long Essay Scholarship

(Selection committee chair: Gérard Emch)

Award For Conference Paper

  • Feng Huang and Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam
    Y.Chen. Sheshadri R. Thiruvenkadam, Feng Huang, Kaundinya S. Gopinath and Richard W. Briggs, "Feature based image registration for functional MR images using prior shape information" was selected as one of the best papers in the session: Medical Imaging and Image Analysis/Indexing/Retrieval of World Multiconference on systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, (2001).

Graduate Mathematics Association:

(Faculty Advisor: Jorge Martinez)
  • President: Erik Zenk
  • Vice President: Jeff Lataille
  • Treasurer: Ricardo Carrera
  • Secretary: Andrew Hallsworth
  • Web Master: Mark Stillwell
  • Noetherian Ring Chair: Oana Mocioalca

Dissertation Fellows:

(Graduate Coordinator: Paul Robinson)
  • Oana Mocioalca (McLaughlin Dissertation Fellowship)
  • Thomas Wunderli (Aschoff Dissertation Fellowship)

Graduate Degrees:

(Summer 2001, Fall 2001, and Spring 2002)
  • Masters Degrees:
    Ryan Bean Bryan Busbee Jennifer Buxe
    Ricardo Carrera Michele Cofer Caleb Eckhardti
    William Griffiths Andrew Hallsworth Christian Jones
    Lori Lorenz Leah Maurer Farshid Safi
  • PhD Degrees:
    • Greg Bell(Alexander Dranishnikov)
    • Jeffrey Lataille(Peter Sin)
    • Mahir Lokvancic(Murali Rao)
    • Vincent Ssembatya(James Keesling)

Graduate Student Teaching

(Selection Committee: Louis Block, Paul Robinson, Marvel Townsend)
  • Certificates of Excellence:
    • Greg Bell
    • Jennifer Smith

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  • Certificates of Merit:
    • Jennifer Buxe
    • Peter Gray
    • Chris Tweddle
    • Zia Uddin

Faculty and Staff Recognition

(Chair: Krishnaswami Alladi)
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Last update made Thu May 2 11:29:05 EDT 2002.