Job Search: 2007-2008	Calendar of Events
Awards and Scholarships	Case Statement

News and Noteworthy ...

      — The Department Celebrates the Birth of Sagan Scott Diestel!

      — Photos from Dr. David Sumner's Retirement Celebration

      — Minna Moore wins the 2007-2008 Pamela W. Young Classified Staff Excellence Award

      — Photos of Math Undergraduates from USC Awards Day

      — Christopher Poirel wins first prize at the poster session for Discovery Day 2008

      — Photos from the 6th Annual Integration Bee sponsored by Pi Mu Epsilon and the Gamecock Math Club

      — Prof. Thomas Markham featured in College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter

      — Congratulations to our award-winning graduate students ...

• Kate Scott (USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Assistants)
• Aaron Dutle (Outstanding First Year Graduate Student)
• Heather Cheatum and Dan Baczkowski (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant)
• Kelly Jordan (Outstanding Graduate Student)
• Li Tian (G. W. Johnson Fellowship in Computational Mathematics)

      — Kasey Crompton and Bill Kay are each accepted as participants in summer REU programs

      — USC Student Team placed 94th out of 516 competing institutions in the William Lowell Putnam Competition. The following participants each answered 1 or more questions correctly: Ben Garrett, Jim Manning, Bill Kay, Joseph Montoya

      — Prof. Douglas Meade and collaborator Prof. Philip Yasskin of Texas A & M win the 2008 ICTCM Award for Excellence in Innovation using Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

      — Gwyn Pauley named Student of the Month for the College of Arts and Sciences

      — Prof. Don Jordan awarded Governor's Award for Scientific Awareness

      — Prof. Lincoln Lu awarded prize for solution of Erdös problem

      — Prof. David Sumner, recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award for the MAA Southeastern Section, will be one of the keynote speakers at the annual meeting March 28-29

      — Christopher Poirel awarded a Magellan Scholarship to work with Prof. Joshua Cooper on Pythagorean Triple Partition-Regularity

      — Prof. Vladimir Temlyakov is named Carolina Distinguished Professor

      — Prof. Ronald DeVore and Gyula Katona elected to be Foreign Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

      — High School Math Contest results - Harry Richman, Artem Aleshin, Juna Chen, ...

      — Prof. Robert Sharpley is appointed Director of the IMI by Dean Fitzpatrick

      — Department Newsletter

      — IMI members have organized and now lead 8 universities in an ARO MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative) entitled "Dynamic Modeling of 3D Urban Terrain"