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Ken Cooke 1925-2007
A moving tribute to Ken, written by his colleague, Sandy Grabiner, was spread upon the faculty minutes, Nov. 7, 2007. A short biography can be found at the Pomona College Website. For those who are interested, a Memorial Fund has been established in his honor."; news_AWM="

Prof. Ami Radunskaya has been selected as the 2010 Etta Z. Falconer Lecturer to be held August 5-7, 2010 at MathFest in Pittsburgh. Her selection by the Association for Women in Mathematics(AWM)was recently announced by Georgia Benkart, President of the AWM. The Falconer Lecture is jointly sponsored by the AWM and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Dr. Benkart, says 'The Falconer Lecture is presented each summer to recognize women who have made distinguished and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education. Dr. Falconer worked tirelessly to encourage women and minorities to study and have careers in mathematics and science. Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration. Through your impressive research, teaching, and service to the mathematical community, you have followed her rich tradition. Sincere thanks for being such an inspiration, and congratulations from the AWM on this honor!' Hear-Hear Dr. Rad!"; news_Moscow="

Will Fletcher '12, double-major in Math and Chemistry, is spending the 2009-2010 academic year studying at the Math in Moscow Program. The main feature of this program follows the Russian tradition of teaching mathematics. It focuses on the development of a creative approach to studying mathematics from the very outset. Not memorizing theorems and proofs, but discovering mathematics oneself under the guidance of an experienced teacher. While in Moscow, Will is being supported by the Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student scholarship program. Let's give Will a hearty round of applause!"; news_SIAM="

The recent research of Profs. Ami Radunskaya and Lisette de Pillis (HMC) is highlighted in the October 2009 SIAM News Mathematics Meets Oncology and Immunology. Profs. Rad and de Pillis began their collaborative research about 10 years ago by working with a group of physicians, an almost unheard of collaboration. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary research has spawned numerous talks and papers. Congratulations Dr. Rad!"; news_Prizes="The 2008-09 Math Prizes were awarded Oct. 12 at Alumni House. 12 students were honored for their work in the academic year 2008-09. The Jaeger, or frosh prize, was given to Max Strater, Allison Miller, Xinyi Guo, Ian Chang, Jessica Barry and Clara Fried. The Bixby prize for outstanding work as a sophomore was presented to David di Tullio, Catherine Pelland, Will Fletcher and Daniel Poore. Juniors receiving the Bruce Levy prize are Teddy Einstein and James Buerger. Congratulations to All!"; news_Daigle="Gerald 'Jay' Daigle '08, was awarded a prestigious 3 year NSF graduate fellowship to begin his PhD studies in Mathematics at Cal Tech in Pasadena. Jay recently returned from spending a year at Cambridge Univeristy in England studying for the Mathematical Tripos. While an undergraduate at Pomona, Jay was a member of our award winning Dance team."; news_Wig="Professors Ghassan Sarkis and Stephan Garcia are recipients of the prestigious Wig Awards.

Voted on by students the award recognizes exceptional teaching, concern for students and service to the College and the community. The recipients of the Wig Awards are elected by the junior and senior classes and then confirmed by a committee of trustees, faculty and students. The awards were announced at Pomona's 116th Commencement held on May 17, 2009. The awards were established by Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Wig in 1955."; news_Social="
Math Social


Join the majors and new students for Some Crust cookies and milk. Harry's Room, Wednesday, 9/9, 8pm"; news_Lunch="The ever popular Math Lunch continues every Friday, Frary PDR, south. See you there!"; news_Ilia="

Ilia Mishev '01 received his PhD in Mathematics from Colorado University May 2009. His research interests lie in special functions, wavelets, functional analysis and probability. He is currently focusing on the area of special functions which involves describing Coexeter group actions on Saalschutzian 4F3(1) and well-poised 7F6(1) hypergeometric series of unit argument. He expects to teach at Colorado next fall while looking for an academic position. Congratulations Ilia!"; news_NSF="
Emily Stark '09 and James Tener '08 both received the prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship Awards. Emily will be studying Topology at Tufts University next year while James is in his second year at UC Berkeley graduate school studying Analysis. Honorable Mention awards go to other recent Math Majors; Emma Spiro '07 who is studying at UC Irvine and Jay Daigle '08 who is pursuing his PhD in Mathematics at Caltech. Congratulations to all our NSF awardees."; news_Xan="
Xan Vongsathorn '09, has his first crossword puzzle published in the NY Times, no less. A senior double major in Math and Econ, Xan plans to attend graduate school at the University of Chicago. For true crossword lovers, or even if you just want to know a little more about this math geek, check out the officical NYT crossword blog by Jim Horne."; news_Chris="
Christopher DuBois 2006, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at University of California-Irvine, has been awarded a 3-year National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship. NDSEG Fellowships are awarded based on a national competition, with approximately 200 fellowships awarded each year in the United States to graduate students across a broad range of fields of study in the sciences and engineering. Chris will use his fellowship funding to pursue his PhD research on statistical modeling of large dynamic social networks, such as email communication networks between individuals, working with Professor Padhraic Smyth in the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics and Professor Carter Butts in the Department of Sociology. While at Pomona College, Chris worked with Professor Ami Radunskaya on modeling early tumor growth."; news_Julie="
Congratulations go to Julie Siloti 2008! Julie has accepted a Graduate Research Assistantship at UT Austin. She is currently working in the CAM program with Professor Moser on his work in turbulence flow. This world traveler returned from a year off before grad school living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland at the NHS hospital system. Her many experiences before grad school were just what the doctor ordered!"; news_Josh="

Josh Shapiro '10 coauthored a paper entitled Whole brain atrophy based on IPCA and MRI techniques in the study of Alzheimer's Disease. The paper was presented last week at the International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering and received honors as the Best Paper award!"; news_honday="

Honors Day was held Saturday, April 18. The exciting schedule offered great talks and an interesting awards program. The musical presentation, I LIKE NERDS, an original composition by Prof. Radunskaya delighted the audience. Band members included Pomona students, JD Rodriguez '09 and Ian Zhang '12"; news_Will="

Congratulations go to Will Fletcher 2011 for being one of three Pomona students to have won recognition in the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship competition. Virtually all Goldwater Scholars go on to earn the PhD in their chosen fields. Which field will Will select as a double major in Mathematics and Chemistry? Many Scholars also receive wonderful fellowships for graduate study in the U.S. or abroad. The next time you see Will give him your heartiest Congratulations!!"; news_WomenMath="The EDGE Southern California mentoring network in collaboration with the Women in Math group at USC is organizing a one-day symposium for Women in Mathematics in Southern California, April 25 at Loyola Marymount. We invite you to come and give a talk, or present your thesis, or just come and listen and network. Rides from Claremont can be arranged. Fmi: Ami Radunskaya."; news_Putnam="

Pomona's Putnam team made up of Daniel Poore '11 (pictured), Tim Carrell '09 and Chris Peterson '09 ranked 31st. Daniel had the top Pomona score of 40.9. The Putnam is an international competition held one Saturday in December. This year there were 3627 participants from 545 institutions. Other participants were Madeline Wyse '11, Andrew Dugowson '11, Minsoo Kim '10, Paul Salerno '09, Naneh Apkarian '10, Dustin Rodrigues '12, Teddy Einstein '10 and Arolyn Conwill '10. A hearty cheer for all of Pomona's participants!!"; news_tzoo="

Tammy Zhu '10, has unanimously been selected to receive the 2009 Pat Kelly Prize. The prize is given to an outstanding math student who exhibits strong personal qualities and provides leadership to students in the Math Dept. Recognized for her help with Talent Search, her photography expertise, constant presence in the department and her famous smile, the mostly honorary prize was an easy choice. Congratulations Tammy!!"; news_TSOnline="Not only are problem sets available online, but we are now accepting emailed solutions to mathsearch@pomona.edu. Additional information on the Talent Search can be found by clicking the Talent Search link in the lower left corner of this page."; news_TalSrch="Join the Math Dojo and grade the final Talent Search Problem set of the year. Come to Harry's room, Tuesday, Mar. 23 at 5:30pm for pizza and $10 cash for your help!"; news_reu2009="Updated information can be found at REU Summer 2009, when available."; news_Rumbos="Prof. Adolfo Rumbos stars in Heirlooms, a short independently produced film that has been entered in The Inland Empire 48 Hour Film Project and will be shown Thursday night, Aug. 7 at 9:15pm at the Laemmle Theatre in Claremont."; news_Flapan="For a quick peek at one of Prof. Flapan's research projects, go to Science News , May 23rd 2008. Coincidentally Prof. Flapan's research partner, Dorothy Buck, is a Pomona Alum from 1995."; news_Shahriari="Congratulations to Professor Shahriar Shahriari on winning his third Wig Award! Here's an excerpt from a student comment that sums it up quite nicely: ''I'm not exactly sure how he does it, but he waves his hands around in the air, and then the student understands complex material that he never forgets.''"; news_Shahriar="Professor Shahriar Shahriari's new book, 'Approximately Calculus' (published by the American Mathematical Society), has received an Outstanding Choice Academic Title award from the American Libraries Association. Want to learn more? Register for Professsor Shahriari's Math 31H in the Fall!"; news_Alum="Math Alumni Reception, Friday, May 2, 3:30-5:00pm, Harry's Room. All Mathey's Welcome!"; news_GLewis="Geoff Lewis, Math Major '08, receives Fulbright to study in China next year. He plans to 'study the future of the green building market in China. China just passed the US to become the worlds biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, and it's estimated that half of the worlds new construction over the next ten years will take place in China, so it's hugely important that they do this construction in a sustainable fashion.'"; news_MCM="Pomona Team, Ragib Morshed, Josh Lippai and Michael Baumstein received Honorable Mention in the 2008 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Go Sagehens!"; news_honday="Talent Search Honors Day, Saturday, April 26, 9:30am-1:00pm. The exciting schedule was enjoyed by all. Let's congratulate some of the remarkableTalent Searchers for 2008!"; news_pi="

π Day Eve was celebrated in the Math Dept on March 13 at noon. We ate pizza πs, eskimo πs, πne nuts, and πneapples! Tattoos and Pins were in abundance. Congratulations to our winners:
Pin the π on the Equation
Kiavash Shahriari and Mary Owen
Hamlet π Quotes
Andrew Dugowson
π Rap
Duet by Danny Scinto and Levon Balayan"; news_halona="The Math Retreat will be Friday, March 7 at Halona. The sign-up sheet is on the Math. Dept. office door. See you there!!"; news_Rick="Prof. Richard Elderkin was invited to speak to the USC Dynamical Systems Seminar, March 3, 2008. His talk was titled, 'Oscillation in Predator-Prey Models: Chaotic Teacups Tori Delayed Dynamics with Hangovers.' The abstract can be obtained by emailing Prof. Elderkin."; news_EDGE="EDGE 2008 returns to Pomona, June 4-July 2, 2008. See the website for further information and full eligibility requirements."; news_desilva="Prof. Vin de Silva and his research partner Robert Ghrist were honored by Scientific American. Their research was highlighted as one of the 50 most important scientific developments in the year 2007 (see in particular pages 44 and 55)."; news_donnelly="Rob Donnelly '09 spoke at the first-ever meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Math Society Dec. 12-15, 2007 in Wellington, New Zealand. His talk 'Cellular Automata Model of Radiation Therapy in Cervical Cancer' was co-resarch with Katie Belsky, Hana Ueda, Prof. Ami Radunskaya, and Prof. Lisette dePillis conducted at the Claremont REU summer 2007."; news_honors07="Click here for the exciting schedule of events and here to see this year's Honored Students. "; news_isodeca="Prof. Vin de Silva and a group of interested Mathies constructed several isododecahedrons. Stay tuned for more construction parties to come."; news_willleer="This winter Will Leer '07 Math Major, won the NCAA Division III Indoor track and field mile again (you'll remember he won it again last winter too), bettering his old meet record by over a second. He finished the race in 4:08.19."; news_juliesiloti="Julie Siloti '08 wins MAA poster contest at the Math Meetings held in New Orleans, Jan. 5-8, 2007. Julie and her co-authors, Matthew Rashford, State University of New York at Geneseo and Jonathan Wrolstad, Winona State University presented a poster, Exponential Stability of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, which they conceived at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the direction of Allan Peterson.

Julie reports that she \"loved being able to see and talk about the work of other students from colleges all over the country and to have the experience of explaining our own work to a group of judges, most of whom knew little about our area of study. New Orleans is also a really fun city to explore.\""; news_showing="nonews"; function show_news($news) { last_news=news_showing; this_news=$news; if (last_news=="nonews" && this_news!="none") { document.getElementById("littleicon").innerHTML=""; } if (last_news!="nonews" && this_news=="nonews") { document.getElementById("littleicon").innerHTML=""; } News=eval("news_"+$news); document.getElementById('news').innerHTML="
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