—Congratulations to Jen and Aaron Monastra on the June 1st birth of their baby girl!

      — Congratulations to Lili Ju on the May 20th birth of his daughter Claire Ju!

      — Congratulations to Aaron and Caroline Dutle on the May 14th birth of their son Leo Aaron!

      — Joshua Cooper receives Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award

      — South Carolina Chess Champion Philipp Lamby won the second annual Border Battle against North Carolina Chess Champion

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

• Department of Mathematics 2008-2009 Awards
• William Kay (Outstanding Student in Mathematics)
• Kelvin Pompey (Outstanding Student in Mathematics Education)
• Trevor Lightbody (James Bruce Coleman Mathematics Scholarship)
• Kristen "Brooke" Carver (Thomas Markham Mathematics Scholarship)
• Andrea Moore (Polston Family Mathematics Scholarship)
• James Manning (Cary K. Smith, Jr. Mathematics Scholarship)
• Timothy "Hudson" Harper (Wyman L. Williams Scholarship)
• Thomas Beecher, Alan Boc, Andrew Cron, William Kay, Kelvin Pompey, Matthew Seaton, Forrest Spence, Holly Watson (Jeong S. Yang Award for Excellence in Mathematics)
• Alyse Shayer (Pi Mu Epsilon Award)
• College of Arts and Sciences Awards
• Eric Matthews (CAS Rising Senior Mathematics Scholarship)
• James Manning (CAS Rising Senior Statistics Scholarship)
• Alan Bock (Mu Sigma Rho Award in Statistics)
• Dominik Gothe (CAS Rising Senior Award in Physics)
• Other USC Awards
• Joseph Montoya (Outstanding Senior in Chemical Engineering)
• Forrest Spence (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Ludmillia Ignatiev Callaham Award)
• Kristin Davis (Phi Beta Kappa Freshman Award)
• David Ensor (Outstancing Seniors)
• National Awards
• Timothy "Hudson" Harper (Barry M. Goldwater Scholar)
• Amanda Hall, B.S. 2008 (Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship in Mathematics - 2009 Cohort)
• Other Awards
• Courtney Holden (Who's Who among Students in American Colleges & Universities)

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

• Xiaocong Deng (Outstanding First Year Graduate Student)
• Li Tian (Outstanding Graduate Student and Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Study)
• Mark Walters (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant)

      — Eric Choate and Lαszlσ Szιkely each receive the Two Thumbs Up Award from the Office of Disability Services

      — Emily Mitchell has been awarded a Woodruff Fellowship, Emory University's most prestigious fellowship for entering graduate students. She will pursue her Ph.D. in Biostatistics.

      — 7th Annual Integration Bee to be held Tuesday, April 7th

      — We are proud to learn that our colleague and Undergraduate Director, Prof. Doug Meade, is a co-author on the new edition of "Getting Started with Maple" that has just been published:

Douglas B. Meade, Michael May, C-K. Cheung, and G.E. Keough, Getting Started with Maple, John Wiley & Sons, Third Edition, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-45554-8 (x+209 pp.).

The book should be available for purchase around March 20. It is designed to show new users how to master the various Maple interfaces, and how to recover from problems that they might encounter.

      — Bradley Setzler (Philosophy and Math major) is named CAS Student of the Month

      — Harry Richman wins "Who Wants to be a Mathematician"

      — Congratulations to Sam and Sara Gross on the February 5th birth of their son Michael David!

      — Colin Bennett receives Malcolm C. Clark Award from South Carolina Historical Society. This award is made annually for the best paper published during the course of the year in the Society's journal.

      — Congratulations to Jessica on the December 13th birth of her daughter Sonia Anaοs Nelson!

      — Bill Kay and Andrew Mamroth awarded Magellan Scholarships to work with Prof. Joshua Cooper

      — Photos from High School Math Contest

      — Photos from Math Department Cookie Day

      — High School Math Contest results - Harry Richman, Qian Li Sun, Philip Cross, ...

      — Photos from PME Hair Cut Fundraiser

      — Photos from Hudson Harper's PME Talk and Sudoku Championship

      — Maria Girardi receives 2008-09 USC Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award

      — Photos from Wyman Williams Room Dedication

      — Philipp Lamby becomes the new South Carolina State Chess Champion

      — Photos from Math Department Picnic

      — Photos from Kate Scott's CTE Presentation

      — Andreea & Dan Savu are happy to announce the birth of their daughter Miruna Maria Savu on September 1, 2008 at 6:07am. She was 7lbs 13oz and 21.5" at birth.

      — Prof. Jerrold Griggs is named Carolina Distinguished Professor

      — Prof. Jerrold Griggs is appointed Department Chair for 3 year term

      — USC will host 33rd SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Section Conference on April 4-5, 2009

      — Kate Scott to speak at the Center for Teaching Excellence on September 10th

      — 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 M ontoya

      — 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 Erdφs 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, Junda 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"