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• Got a good TA? Nominate him or her to receive the Math Department's Teaching Assistant Award.
• See the Upcoming Events section (on the right of this page) for information about upcoming conferences in the department.
• Dr. Karin Melnick, formerly at Yale University, joins the department as an Assistant Professor in fall of 2009.
• Dr. Wojtek Czaja and Dr. Dio Margetis have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, effective summer 2009. Congratulations!
• Professors Carlos Berenstein and David Lay retired at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year and are now Professors Emeriti.
• Professor Raymond Johnson retired at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year and has taken a new position as W. L. Moody, Jr. Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Rice University in Houston. A special program was held in his honor on June 8, 2009. For more information, see here.
• Of the four Regional Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences sponsored by the CBMS (Conference Board of the Mathmatical Sciences) and NSF in Summer 2009, two had principal lecturers from the Maryland Math Department, Jonathan Rosenberg and Scott Wolpert.
• We regret to report that Professor Emeritus Harold P. Edmundson passed away on July 9, 2009. Professor Edmundson held a joint appointment in Computer Science and the Mathematics Department from 1967 until 1991, when he retired.
• The Department has been given a generous donation by James Kaplan, who received his Ph.D. in the department in 1970. The gift will be used for partial travel support for graduate students seeking Ph.D.s in MATH, STAT, or AMSC who wish to travel to scientific conferences. Thank you Dr. Kaplan!
• Professor Jeffrey Adams is this year's recipient of the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize, which is awarded annually to a Maryland faculty member for a ``highly significant work of research, scholarship, or artistic creativity completed withing the past three years''. Adams received this prize for leading the international project ``Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations'', which is developing and applying revolutionary computer techniques to the theoretical study of symmetry. The ultimate goal of this project is to solve one of the most important problems in mathematics, that of the Unitary Dual for Representations of Real Lie Groups.
• Congratulations to Associate Professor Dio Margetis, who received a highly coveted NSF CAREER award in support of his research on Thermodynamic and kinetic approaches for epitaxial material systems. This grant is supported by both the Division of Mathematical Sciences and the Division of Materials Research.
• Professor Larry Washington was the 2009 winner of the John Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching, from the the Maryland/DC/Viriginia section of the Mathematical Association of America.
• We regret to report that Professor Dennis Healy passed away at the age of 52 on September 3, 2009. Aside from his duties in the Mathematics Department and the Norbert Wiener Center, Professor Healy served as a program manager for DARPA and a Research Program Consultant for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at NIH.
• Professor Dmitry Dolgopyat has been named as the winner of this year's Michael Brin Prize for research in dynamical systems. The goal of the prize is to recognize mathematicians who have made substantial impact at an early stage of their careers.
• We regret to report that Professor Emeritus Bert Hubbard, who retired from the department in 1991, passed away at the age of 81 on October 3, 2009.
• We regret to report that Professor Israel Gohberg of Tel-Aviv University, a frequent distinguished visitor to the department, passed away at the age of 81 on October 13, 2009.
• Professor John Benedetto has been invited to give the 35th William J. Spencer Lecture at Kansas State University, November 12, 2009.