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Congratulations to Mathematics students who were named to the Honor Roll in College of Science for Fall 2007: Aagesen, Kirsten Greta; Azorr, Elyse Marie; Barrese, Karen Marie; Barrese, Kenneth William; Beck, Brandon Jack; Brugger, Max Francis; Clark, Scott Christopher; Coleman, Evan Christopher; Crimp, Caitlin Aylene; Davison, Rodney Arthur; Fitzstephens, Morgan A; Grove, Kevin Jesse; Hanussak, Debra Elizabeth; Harada, Daniel Ryan; Hess, Ashleigh Elizabeth; Holmes, Mollie Elizabeth; Lathrop, Ashley Marie; Leung, Aubrey Chi-Yun; Linman, Julie Marie; Nofziger, Nathan Ryan; Numazu, Zanette X; Rice, Gregory Nelson; Robbins, Eric Walter; Russo, Andrew Vincent; Schaffer, Tiffany Rose; Shimomura, Jason Grant; Siefken, Jason Elliot; Smith, Rachel Joy; Sterling, Marcus Ryan; Sternadel, Sharon Julie; Stevenson, Nicholas James; Teose, Maarika; Toliver, Christy Ann; Wherry, Jonathan David.

Tom Dick received the Frederick H. Horne Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Science. The award was presented at College of Science Day. Congratulations !

Congratulations to David Finch who has been promoted to Full Professor.

John W. Lee has been awarded the Mumford Faculty Service Award:

The D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award was created by the Faculty Senate in June 1983 and first presented to the man for whom it was named in September 1983 at Faculty Day ceremonies. The award was conceived by a group of faculty who wished to find a means of recognizing exceptional, ongoing, and dedicated service to the faculty and to OSU.

Oregon Invitational Mathematics Tournament is hosted this year by our Department.

Click here for a OIMT 2007 List of Winners.

Mathematics Awards and Lonseth and Harris Lectures and

National Science Foundation awarded the project Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Multiscale Nonlinear Systems: Workshop at Oregon State University (PI: Malgorzata Peszynska, co-PIs: Ralph Showalter, Son-Young Yi)

OSU team was awarded Meritorious Winner in the COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling which places them in the top 14% internationally.

The COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling is a four day math competition which started Thursday February 8th this year. Student teams of three choose from two real world problems and type a solution report to submit. This year the problems involved (A) mapping congressional districts and (B) airplane seating scheduling. Solutions were judged and teams were recognized as Successful Participant, Honorable Mention, Meritorious Winner, or Outstanding Winner. This year there were 14 Outstanding Winner teams, and 122 Meritorious Winner teams, out of 949 teams from 12 different countries.
Our OSU team members were (left to right) James S. Yih (Mechanical Engineering) William G.K. Martin (Mathematics) Walter B. Woods (Computer Science)

OSU mathematics undergraduates take part and score highly in the Putnam Exam

The Putnam Exam is a 6 hour long math test for undergraduates held on the first Saturday in December each year. The sixty-seventh competition was held December 2, 2006. A total of 3640 students from 508 colleges and universities in the US and Canada participated. We are pleased to report that two of our students scored high enough to make it into the top 25%: Kenny Barrese and Jason Siefken.

Although three of our top four team members were unable to participate due to various scheduling conflicts, the remaining members earned a team rank of 114. This speaks highly of the depth of talent in the department. Our other students participating in the Putnam this year were: Max Brugger, Scott Clark, and Lucas Marks.

College of Science Awards Day: Edward C. Waymire receives the Milton Harris Award for Basic Research

Lonseth Lecture and Mathematics Awards

Promotions of Mina Ossiander to Full Professor and of Malgosia Peszynska to Associate Professor

Research Equipment Reserve Funds awarded for High Performance Computing

Pictures from GTA Workshop Celebration

College of Science Awards Day: Tom P. Dick receives the Olaf Boedtker Award for Excellence in Academic Advising

Pictures from Fall 2005 Picnic

Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the project Northwest Consortium for Multiscale Mathematics and Applications, Educational Strategies and Critical Problems in Thermo-mechanics of Materials to PNNL, WSU and OSU (co-PI: Ralph Showalter)

Department of Energy Office of Science Multiscale Mathematics program awarded the project Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Multiscale Preferential Flow (PI: Ralph Showalter, co-PI: Malgorzata Peszynska)

Robert Higdon receives an NSF award Numerical Methods for Layered Ocean Models

Model adaptivity for porous media

Undergraduate and Graduate Awards Ceremony

Juha Pohjanpelto and Thomas A. Schmidt promoted to Full Professor.

Math Awareness Month.

Mathematics is at the core of our attempts to understand the cosmos at every level: Riemannian geometry and topology furnish models of the universe, numerical simulations help us to understand large-scale dynamics, celestial mechanics provides a key to comprehending the solar system, and a wide variety of mathematical tools are needed for actual exploration of the space around us.
This year's Lonseth Lecture May 10, 2005 by Doug Arnold, on "The New Mathematical Gravitational Astronomy" will develop this theme.

The National Science Foundation has approved the OSU REU grant. Principal Investigators on the proposal are Dennis Garity and Paul Cull. Senior personnel are Don Solmon, Juha Pohjanpelto, Tom Schmidt and Christine Escher.

Principal Investigatior of the Month: Tom Dick.

Pictures from Fall Picnic and New Graduate Student orientation

Tevian Dray receives the Frederick Horne Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Science.

Tom P. Dick receives a National Science Foundation grant.