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News Daniel Forger has recently had his research on the biological clock and circadian rhythms highlighted in Science Daily and Science News. The Mathematical Sciences Research institue has named Professor & Associate Dean Robert Megginson a lifetime member of their Human Resources Advisory Committee. The appointment recognizes meritorious service to the profession in recruiting and retaining minorities in mathematics. He is only the second person to receive such an honor. A story in Seed Magazine looks at a solution co-authored by Joel Smoller that seeks to explain how the observable universe can be expanding without employing the controversial and mysterious concept of "dark energy." We are sad to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus George Piranian (pdf) on August 31, 2009. The memorial service will be Monday, October 5, 2009 at 4 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 4001 Ann Arbor / Saline Rd. Karen Smith has been named the new M.S. Keeler Professor in the Department of Mathematics. The Keeler Professorship was established in 1995 through a gift from Mike Keeler, a mathematics alumnus from Grand Rapids, MI. Math Grad Student Formulates Tetrahedra Packing Breakthrough. U-M Mathematics graduate student, Elizabeth Chen, found a method of densely packing regular tetrahedra, one of the five Platonic solids, in space. Read More.(pdf) William Fulton has been named the Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics. The Distinguished University Professorship is the highest honor the University can bestow on a faculty member. The Professorship is named for Oscar Zariski, a pioneer in the field of algebraic geometry. Hyman Bass, Roger Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics Education at the School of Education and of Mathematics at the U-M College of Literature, Science and the Arts, was recently elected to the National Academy of Education. He is one of ten education leaders elected to membership this year for their pioneering efforts in educational research and policy development. The National Academy of Education is an honorary society that currently has 174 members. Members are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or contributions to education. Professor Jeffrey Lagarias gave the 2009 Erdös Memorial Lecture at the March 28 Spring Central Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society. His talk, From Apollonian circle packings to Fibonacci numbers, described results in number theory and group theory that arise from Apollonian circle packings, and contrasted some of the properties relating to the circles' curvatures with those of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. The Erdös Memorial Lecture is an annual invited address named for the prolific mathematician Paul Erdös, who died in 1996. Professor Joel Smoller has received the George David Birkhoff Prize. The prize is awarded jointly by AMS and SIAM once every three years for an outstanding contribution to “applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.” The brief citation for the 2009 award states “To Joel Smoller for his leadership, originality, depth, and breadth of work in dynamical systems, differential equations, mathematical biology, shock wave theory, and general relativity.” More detailed information is available at http://www.ams.org/prizes/birkhoff-prize.html
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