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Mathematics: NSF Moves With VIGRE to Force Changes in Academia (May)
"A new NSF program aims to make mathematics more user friendly for students - but it's not for every university department." Includes interview with UCLA Mathematics VIGRE Assistant Professor, Skip Garibaldi.
By Dana Mackenzie
Science Magazine, vol. 296, May 24, 2002, p. 1389-1390.
"Skip Garibaldi, a VIGRE-supported postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles, has both a teaching and a research mentor. The latter is helping him write a book with Jean-Pierre Serre, a former winner of the Fields Medal (the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize). "You can't get much above Serre, and you can't get much below me," says Garibaldi. "So that's an example of vertical integration."
- UCLA Math Alumni, Hao-Min Zhou (now at Caltech) won an honorable
mention in the Householder Prize for his dissertation, "Wavelet
transformations and PDE techniques in image compression", written
at UCLA under the supervision of Tony Chan. The report is available
for download on the CAM Reports Webpage.
- Chris Anderson will receive the 2002
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Kefeng Liu has received a prestigious
Guggenheim Fellowship for 2002, an award presented for "unusually
distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment."
- US
News and World Report ranked the top PhD Mathematics programs
in the country for 2002. The UCLA Mathematics Department placed 10th
in Mathematics and 5th in Applied Mathematics.
- Special Awards Ceremony 2002 : Monday,
May 13, 2002.
- Professor
Heinz-Otto Kreiss will receive the National Academy of Sciences
(NAS) Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis "for
his seminal contribution to the understanding of differential and
difference equations and for his many outstanding contributions to
numerical analysis, fluid dynamics, and meteorology."
- Professor
Terence Tao received the AMS Bocher Prize. "Professor Tao
is being honored for his recent fundamental breakthrough on the problem
of critical regularity in Sobolev spaces of the wave maps equations."
- OsherFest Conference on the occasion of
Stanley Osher's 60th birthday: International Conference on Scientific
Computing, Partial Differential Equations and Image Processing. April
5-7, 2002 at UCLA.
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