WHERE DID THEY GO ? 


Some outstanding Maryland math majors have gone on to famous careers. 
In recent years, some of the best majors have gone on to some of 
the best graduate programs in the country (e.g., Princeton, Stanford,
Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkeley). 

In 2007, we began to assemble an incomplete list of some of our  
honors or exceptional math majors, with year of graduation and where 
they went after graduating. (There are some question marks since we 
don't remember where some of the top honors students went.) 
For pre-1999 graduates we picked just a few famous examples. 

A school name refers to graduate school (usually Math -- 
nonMath is indicated -- some of these math majors were double
majors). 



1936   George Dantzig       (Michigan) 
                            ("father of linear programming") 
                            
1966   Charles Fefferman    (Princeton) 
                            (later won the Fields Medal--the 
                             "Nobel Prize of Mathematics") 

1993   Sergei Brin          (Stanford, Computer Science) 
                            (later cofounded Google) 

1999   David Bindel         (Berkeley) 
1999   David Clark          (MIT)
1999   John Armstrong       (Yale)

2000   M. Ong               (Maryland) 
2000   David Spivak         (Berkeley)
2000   J. Brown             (Berkeley)
2000   Sean Lawton          (Maryland)

2001   Matt Bainbridge      (Harvard)
2001   Pat Hooper           (Stony Brook)
2001   R. Rohde             (Berkeley)
2001   Chad Groft           (Stanford)

2002   P. Yu                (Maryland)

2003   Jared English        (Wisconsin)
2003   Michael Thompson     (Maryland)
2003   Lawrence D'Anna      (Maryland) 

2004   Marshall Williams    (Michigan) 
2004   Jonathan Dahl        (Hopkins) 
2004   Alexandre Rostovtsev (Maryland) 
2004   Nikolai Yakovenko    (Columbia, M.S.)
                            (and then  on to Google in NYC)
2004   Andrew Snowden       (Princeton) 
2004   Stuart Fletcher      (rock and roll band) 
2004   Sarah Kitchen        (Utah) 
2004   Benjamin Trahan      (Maryland) 
2004   Steven Helfand       (Maryland) Spring 2004
                            (but after a semester, he left 
                             to play drums for the Glenn 
                             Miller Band) 
			   
			   
2005   Greg Crosswhite      (Univ. of Washington, Physics) 
2005   Reginald Covington   (Cornell, Economics) 
2005   Bianca Viray         (Berkeley) 
2005   Pat Curran           (teaching high school)
2005   Neha Gupta           (Google) 
2005   Juan Lleras          (Berkeley, Economics) 
2005   James White          (Maryland, Applied Math) 
			   
2006   Lea Ann Mawler       (took a year off) 
2006   Timothy Dulaney      (Cal Tech, Physics)  
2006   Michael Hall         (UCLA) 
2006   Bryant Lee           (Carnegie Mellon, Computer Science) 
			   
2007   Anton Lukyanenko     (Maryland) 
2007   Gaurav Thakur        (Princeton, Applied Math ) 
2007   Jeffrey Donatelli    (Berkeley) 
2007   Sinan Ariturk        (Hopkins) 
2007   Mohamed Abutaleb     (MIT, Physics) 


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