Department of Mathematics 

New Faculty and Research Associate 

• Sebastian Schreiber has joined our department as an associate professor in the Fall 2002. He will continue his research is in mathematical biology (sponsored by NSF), and will help us to develop the undergraduate curriculum and our research in mathematical biology. 
• Al Bronstein joined our department as a visiting assitant professor in the Summer of 2002. His interest is in mathematical finance, and he will offer a seminar course on this topic in the Spring of 2003. 
• Robert Reams joined our department as a visiting assistant professor in the Fall of 2002. His interest is in matrix theory and he will collaborate with the matrix theory group of the department. 
• Greg Smith of the Applied Science Department will be a faculty member associcated with our department starting Fall 2002. He will collaborate with our mathematical biology research group.
• Heather Sasinowska of INCOGEN joined our department as a research associate in the Fall of 2002. She will collaborate with our mathematical biology and statistics colleagues. 

Retired Faculty 
Professor David Stanford retired in the Spring of 2002. A party was held on April 26 at Reves Center honoring him. We wish that Professor Stanford an enjoyable retirement.

See the faculty page for a list of other retired professors of the mathematics department.
 

Recent Faculty Awards

Professor John Drew has been selected as the recipient of the 2003 Thomas A. Graves, Jr. Award for Excellence in

Teaching. This award was created to underscore the importance William and Mary attaches to superior teaching. The award will be presented to John at Commencement on May 11, 2003. 

Professor Chi-Kwong Li has been selected as the recipient of the Faculty Award for the Advancement of Teaching by the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William and Mary. This award is offered to "a faculty member who has shown a commitment to the concept of an academic community in which teachers and students work together to advance knowledge." 

Provost Gillian T. Cell (left) presents the award to Professor Junping shi (center) 
Professor Chi-Kwong Li (right)

• Professor Junping Shi has been selected to receive one of 24 Ralph E. Powe Junior faculty Enhancement Awards among 81 applicants. The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards provide seed money for research by junior faculty at Oak Ridge

Associated Universities (ORAU) member institutions. These awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities. The award amount provided by ORAU is $5000. The applicant's  institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5000. 
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Press release
2002 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award Winners



• Professor Hugo Woerdeman has been appointed as a Hamilton Professor starting in Fall 2003 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the college. 

News article on W&M News (February 21, 2002)
• Ms. Dana Johnson has received the 2002 Simon Teaching Award for her excellence in teaching. 
• Professors Michael Lewis, Roy Mathias, and Michael Trosset, received an NSF equipment grant. 
• Professors Chi-Kwong Li, Roy Mathias, Leiba Rodman, Ilya Spitkovsky, and Hugo Woerdeman, continued to receive support from NSF to conduct their research. 
• Professors Rex Kincaid and George Rublein, received support from NASA in the summer to conduct their research. 
• Professor Larry Leemis is continuing his research supported by CW Foundation. 
• Professor Michael Trosset is continuing his research supported by Mobil. 

See the Award page for a complete student and faculty award list.

Recent Student Awards

• Suzanne Robertson has been selected to receive the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky scholarship of the American Mathematical Society. For the 2002 Trjitzinsky awards, the AMS chose eight geographically distributed schools to receive one-time awards of $4,000 each. The mathematics departments at those schools then chose students to receive the funds to assist them in pursuit of careers in mathematics.

News Release by American Mathematical Society
• Patrick Rault has been selected to receive a 2002 Goldwater Fellowship. 309 Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,155 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. The one and two year scholarships will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.

Press Release of 2002 Goldwater Scholars Award
2002 Goldwater Scholars list
• Hanley S. Chiang (Mathematics and Economics Major) won the 2002 Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy as the first junior student to win this award. Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy is an annual award to be awarded to an outstanding student in the natural sciences at the Charter Day celebration.

News article on W&M News  (February 1, 2002)
News article on W&M News  (February 21, 2002)
Story on FlatHat (W&M student newspaper)
• Hanley S. Chiang was recently named one of the 

nation's 77 Truman Scholars by the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation. A double major in Mathematics and Economics, Hanley has published one co-authored paper with Chi-Kwong Li, Ferguson Professor of Mathematics, and is presently working on another on the impact of federal minimum wage increases on families' access to food with Cummings Associate Professor of Economics Bill Rodgers. 
Truman Scholars 2002 List
News article on W&M News (April 18, 2002)
President Letters by President Timothy J. Sullivan May 2002

See the Award page for a complete student and faculty award list. 

Other Research Related News

• The department has conducted the REU program in the summer of 2002, and will conducted the program again in the summer of 2003.



2002 REU program participants

• Eighth SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra will be held July 15-19, 2003 at the College of William and Mary. Professors Roy Mathias and Hugo Woerdeman are the co-chairs of the program committee.