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.
In some cases we can list where they went after graduating.
Our departmental records for honors don't go back before 1980
and are a little sketchy early on.
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")
- 1980 Christopher Asano*
- 1981 L. Stephenson*
(Maryland)
- 1982 Ravi Boppana*
- ???? Selman Hirschfield*
- 1983
Alex Stanoyevitch*
(Michigan)
- 1983 Geoffrey Birky*
- 1983 Eugene Lerman*
(MIT)
- ???? Bonners
- ???? Matthews
- ???? Mary Flather-Phillips
(Naval Research Labs)
- ???? Anderson
- 1988 Harold Knight*
(Yale)
- 1988 B. Goldfarb*
(Cornell)
- 1990 Richard Penn*
(Michigan)
- 1990 Chris Monsour*
(Chicago)
- 1991 Alex Gurevich*
- 1992 Emiliano Gomez*
(Berkeley)
- 1993
Sergey Brin*
(Stanford, Computer Science)
(later cofounded
Google)
- 1993 Glenn Easly* (Maryland)
- 1994 Matt Baker* (Berkeley)
- 1994 Richard Durand*
- 1995 Anna Borovikov*
- 1995 Michael Gurevich* (Maryland)
- 1995 Geoffrey Hruska* (Cornell)
- 1995 Joseph Miller* (Cornell)
- 1996 Peter Calabrese*
- 1997 Kenneth Gosier* (NYU)
- 1997 Sudheer Shukla* (Chicago)
- 1998 Christopher Chambers* (Rochester)
- 1999 John Armstrong* (Yale)
- 1999 David Bindel* (Berkeley)
- 1999 David Clark* (MIT)
- 2000 Jeffrey Brown* (Berkeley)
- 2000 Sean Lawton* (Maryland)
- 2000 Ming Wei Ong* (Maryland)
- 2000 David Spivak* (Berkeley)
- 2001 Matt Bainbridge* (Harvard)
- 2001 Chad Groft* (Stanford)
- 2001 William Patrick Hooper* (Stony Brook)
- 2001 R. Rohde* (Berkeley)
- 2002 Jason Ernst*
- 2002 Paul Yu* (Maryland)
- 2003 Lawrence D'Anna* (Maryland)
- 2003 Jared English* (Wisconsin)
- 2003 Michael Thompson* (Maryland)
- 2004 Jonathan Dahl* (Johns Hopkins)
- 2004 Stuart Fletcher*
(rock and roll band)
- 2004 Steven Helfand* (Maryland)
(but after a semester, he left
to play drums for the Glenn Miller Band)
- 2004 Sarah Kitchen* (Utah)
- 2004 Alexandre Rostovtsev* (Maryland)
- 2004 Andrew Snowden* (Princeton)
- 2004 Benjamin Trahan* (Maryland)
- 2004 Marshall Williams* (Michigan)
- 2004 Nikolai Yakovenko* (Columbia)
(and then on to Google in NY)
- 2005 Greg Crosswhite (Univ. of Washington, Physics)
- 2005 Reginald Covington (Cornell, Economics)
- 2005 Patrick Curran*
(teaching high school)
- 2005 Neha Gupta* (Google)
- 2005 Ninand Jog*
- 2005 Juan Lleras (Berkeley, Economics)
- 2005 Bianca Viray* (Berkeley)
- 2005 James White (Maryland, Applied Math)
- 2006 Timothy Dulaney* (Cal Tech, Physics)
- 2006 Michael Hall* (UCLA)
- 2006 Bryant Lee (Carnegie Mellon, Computer Science)
- 2006 Lea Ann Mawler*
- 2007 Mohamed Abutaleb (MIT, Physics)
- 2007 Sinan Ariturk (Hopkins)
- 2007 Jeffrey Donatelli* (Berkeley)
- 2007 Anton Lukyanenko* (Maryland)
- 2007 Andrew Parrish* (U.C.San Diego)
- 2007 Gaurav Thakur* (Princeton, Applied Math )
- 2008 Christina Frederick* (Texas at Austin)
- 2008 Philip Isett* (Princeton)
- 2008 Nicholas Henderson* (Maryland)
- 2008 Jesse Sugar-Moore* (Texas at Austin)
- 2009 Jeffrey Birenbaum
(Berkeley, Physics)
- 2009 Sean Burke
(University of Texas at Austin)
- 2009 Stevie Green
(UCSD, Physics)
- 2009 Greg Ihrie
(Cambridge)
- 2009 Luke Johnson
(Maryland, Physics)
- 2009 Siwei Kwok
(UCLA, Economics)
- 2009 Chao Lu* (to private sector)
- 2009 Alex Mont
(U.Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Computer Science)
- 2009 Alexander Per
(George Washington, Economics)
- 2009 William Stem
(Maryland, Physics)
- 2009 Andrew Ward*
- 2009 Joel Witten*
(Columbia, Statistics)
*graduated with honors or high honors in Mathematics
(Please send additions or corrections to mmb@math.umd.edu)
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