Awards and Fellowships (cont.):
Faculty and Staff (cont.):
2005-2006 MCTP Advanced Fellows (Spring):
Jennifer Everson, Martha Gregg, Frank Moore
UNL Parents Association Certificates of Recognition for
Contributions to Students:
Jim Campbell (3), Steve Cohn (5), Irakli Loladze (1),
Tom Marley (5), Allan Peterson (6)
2005-2006 MCTP Fellows:
Kris Lund, Lori McDonnell, Emily Price
2005-2006 Project Fulcrum Participants:
Melissa Desjarlais, Pari Ford, David Milan, Diana White
2005-2006 Centennial Fellowships:
Jesse Burke, Anthony DeLegge, Kyle Fey
2005-2006 Larson Fellowships:
Susannah Go, Elizabeth Jurshak
2005-2006 Othmer Graduate Fellows:
Firuz Kamalov, Laura Lynch
2005 Outstanding First Year Student:
Deanna Turk
2005 Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student:
Heidi Feller
2005 Emeritus Faculty Fellowship Scholars:
Brian Bockelman, Matt Dvorak, Livia Miller, Frank Moore,
Sawanya Sakuntasathien
2005 Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young Fellowship:
Bobbi Buchholz
2005 Outstanding Qualifying Exams:
Terri Moore, Silvia Saccon
2005 AMS Conference Speakers:
Melissa Luckas, Steven Spriggs
Faculty and Staff
Charles Bessey Professor in Mathematics:
Allan Peterson
Edith T. Hitz and Marilyn M. Hitz Research Assistant Professorships:
Cynthia Farthing and Janet Striuli
MAA Haimo Teaching Award:
Judy Walker
MAA Sectional Award for Distinguished College or University
Teaching of Mathematics:
Tom Marley
Faculty Members Receiving Promotion to Full Professor:
George Avalos, Judy Walker, Mark Walker
New Faculty Members, August 2005:
Mikil Foss, Petronela Radu
New Staff Member, December 2005:
Tom Danaher
Faculty and Staff (cont.):
Faculty and Staff Members Serving for 0 (mod 5) years:
Tom Danaher
10 years
David Pitts
Judy Walker
10 years David Logan
Mark Walker
10 years
Leo Chouinard
Lori Mueller
15 years
Gordon Woodward
John Orr
15 years
Jim Lewis
Elizabeth Youroukos 20 years
David Skoug
External Grants and Contracts Received in 2005-2006:
Mark Brittenham, CCR SCAMP funding
Allan Donsig, Brian Harbourne, Wendy Hines, Glenn Ledder, Richard Rebarber, Judy Walker, NSA grant for NCUWM
Susan Hermiller, CCR SCAMP funding
Wendy Hines, Lori Mueller & Gordon Woodward, ITLE grant for
“Advising for Success”
Wendy Hines, NSA and AMS funding for “All Girls/All Math”
Srikanth Iyengar, NSF grant
Jerry Johnson & Dave Skoug, NSF grant for Conference on
Feynman Integral
Glenn Ledder (Lead PI), Bo Deng, David Logan, Irakli Loladze, NSF grant for RUTE Program
Glenn Ledder, CCLI grant from NSF
Irakli Loladze, Grant from the Ohio State Math Biology Institute
Tom Marley, Research Council Seed grant
Petronela Radu, ITLE grant for “Math in the City”
Richard Rebarber and Gordon Woodward (co-PI’s), NSF Research
Experience for Undergraduates site grant
Judy Walker, NSF research grant
Mark Walker, NSF research grant
Roger Wiegand, NSA grant
Roger Wiegand (Lead PI), Laurie Bellows, John Meakin, David
Pitts, Judy Walker, Mark Walker, GAANN grant
Gordon Woodward, CSEMS grant
Gordon Woodward, Advanced Scholars Undergrad Course
Development grant
National Offices:
Lucho Avramov, AMS-JMS-SIAM Committee on Summer Research
Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences
Steve Dunbar, MAA Director of Competitions
Susan Hermiller, Member-at-Large of the Council of the AMS and
member of the AMS Committee on Science Policy
Jim Lewis, Chair of the Conference Board for the Mathematical
Sciences (CBMS)
Jim Lewis, Member of the National Research Council
Committee on Teacher Preparation Programs in the U.S.
Jim Lewis, Chair, MAA Coordinating Council on Education
John Meakin, Member of the AMS Committee on Meetings and
Conferences
Judy Walker, Member-at-Large of the Council of the AMS and
member of the AMS Committee on Science Policy
Sylvia Wiegand, AMS Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure,
and Employment Security
Seventh Annual
Notable Events
A&S Monthly Applause Award, November 2005:
Marilyn Johnson
A&S Annual Applause Award, December 2005:
Marilyn Johnson and Lori Mueller
20 years
25 years
30 years
35 years
35 years
40 years
May 7-9, 2005:
Nebraska Commutative Algebra Conference: WiegandFest
(Honoring Roger & Sylvia Wiegand)
Summer 2005:
All Girls/All Math: Ninth Annual Mathematics Summer
Camp for High School Girls
Summer 2005:
Nebraska Research Experience for Undergraduates in
Applied Mathematics
Al Peterson and Richard Rebarber
Summer, 2005:
Power Math Camp: 6th Annual Summer Camp for Jr. High
Boys and Girls
July 27-August 4, 2005:
IMMERSE Workshop (organized by Tom Marley)
October 6, 2005:
Reception honoring Walter Mientka and Art Mastera
October 21-23, 2005:
AMS 2005 Sectional Meeting at UNL
AMS Einstein Lecturer: Sir Michael Atiyah
(Local organizer: Sylvia Wiegand)
November 10, 2005:
16th Annual Math Day
Recognition
Dinner
Monday
April 24, 2006
Nebraska Union • Regency
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
December 2005:
Mavis Hettenbaugh’s Retirement after 17 years in the
Department of Mathematics
February 4-6, 2006:
Eighth Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate
Women in Mathematics
March 3-4, 2006:
Graduate Recruiting Weekend
April 21, 2006:
Tenth Annual Rowlee Lecture: Ingrid Daubechies
(organized by Steve Cohn and Sylvia Wiegand)
May 12-14, 2006:
The Feynman Integral and Related Topics in Mathematics
and Physics (Honoring Jerry Johnson and David Skoug)
Gerald W. Johnson,
retiring after 38 years
in the Department of
Mathematics
Undergraduate Students
Program
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Reception
Dinner
Presentations
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
7:30 Presenters: John Meakin
David Pitts
Gordon Woodward
Thank you to
Allan Donsig and Lynn Erbe
for organizing the department’s
seventh annual recognition dinner
Chancellor’s Scholars:
Andrew Clements
Math Majors Graduating with Highest Distinction:
Colin Anderson and Masatoshi Shoji
Math Majors Graduating with High Distinction:
Jonas Azzam, Andrew Clements, Joshua Howard, Matthew
Johnson, Evan Peterson
Math Majors Graduating with Distinction:
Paul Demmel, Erin Donovan, Brian Kell, William Norton, Kaydi
Osowski, Amber Whisler, Curtis Wray
Math Majors Graduated in August 2005:
Paul Demmel, Erin Donovan, Marc Newman
Math Majors Graduated in December 2005:
Andrew Davis*, Matthew Dickey, Donald Hapner, Brandy
Hobbs*, Corey Maley, Sean Meyer, Phong Doan Nguyen,
Derek Vanosdall, Benjamin Williams
Math Majors Graduating in May 2006:
Colin Anderson*, Jonas Azzam, Derek Boeckner, Nathan
Chandler-Smith, Andrew Clements, Elizabeth Elwell*, Nicole
Gohring, William Griffel, Leanne Hicks, Forest Merriman
Honerkamp, Joshua Howard*, Matthew Johnson, Brian Kell*,
Joseph Moore, Sarah Naber, William Norton, Dana Oberg*,
Kaydi Osowski, Evan Peterson*, Ella Reeves, Christopher
Schmid, Jessica Schroeder*, Masatoshi Shoji*, Caleb
Sweetser, Amber Whisler*, Curtis Wray*
*Superior Scholar
Senior Honors Theses:
Colin Anderson (directed by Jamie Radcliffe)
Jonas Azzam (directed by Richard Rebarber)
Brian Kell (directed by Jamie Radcliffe)
Will Norton (directed by Steve Dunar)
Undergraduate Speakers at Conferences
2006 Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in
Mathematics:
Melissa Ackerman, Laurel Burk, Shengjie Guo
Program Designed by
Lori J. Mueller
2005 Putnam Competition Participants:
Stephen Anthony, Jonas Azzam, Derek Boeckner, Robert
Brase, Brian Kell, Alan Mock, Dana Oberg, Yuliy Pisetsky,
Gabriel Smith, Derrick Stolee
Research Experiences for Undergraduates Participants and
Internships, Summer 2005:
Jonas Azzam (Cornell)
Leanne Hicks (Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges)
Theang Ho (Central Michigan)
Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences
(UCARE) Participants for 2005-2006:
Melissa Ackerman (directed by Glenn Ledder)
Derek Boeckner (directed by Richard Rebarber)
Will Norton (directed by Steve Dunbar)
Gabriel Smith (directed by Mark Brittenham)
Undergraduate MCTP Participants:
Jonas Azzam, Derek Boeckner, Shengjie Guo, Scott Hottovy,
Brian Kell, Colin O’Keefe, Ed Rubin
Graduate Women in Science Awardees:
Kimberlee Blaha, Laurel Burk, Jaclyn Cecetka, Amanda Fricke,
Shengjie Guo, Leanne Hicks, Theang Ho, Kaydi Osowski,
Jessica Schroeder, Ella Reeves, Danielle Rood, Diane Topolski
Freshmen Eastman Scholars:
Rachael Farrar, Andrew Hassing, Charles Lucas, James
Carraher, Alan Mock, Jessica Sierk, Kristin Pedersen, Matthew
Troupe, James Wallace, Andrew Wardyn
Senior Eastman Scholars:
Jaclyn Cecetka, Elizabeth Elwell, Danielle Rood
JD Edwards Senior Undergrad Math Majors, 2005-2006:
Brian Kell, William Norton, Dana Oberg, Ella Reeves
Graduate Students
Ph.D. Recipients:
May 2006:
Justin James, advised by Susan Hermiller & John Meakin
− accepted a tenure-track position at Minnesota State
University-Moorhead.
Dissertation title: “Some Decision Problems in Group
Theory”.
Kathy Bartley, advised by Judy Walker − accepted a position
with the National Security Agency (Department of Defense).
Dissertation title: “Decoding Algorithms for Algebraic
Geometric Codes over Rings”.
August 2006:
Steve Haataja, advised by John Meakin & Allan Donsig −
accepted a position at Chadron State College, Chadron,
Nebraska.
Dissertation title: “Amalgamation of Inverse Semigroups
and Operator Algebras”.
Ed Loeb, advised by Tom Marley & Judy Walker −
accepted a tenure-track position at Southwestern College in
Winfield, Kansas.
Dissertation title: “Quantum Error Correcting Codes:
From Stabilizer Codes To Induced Codes”.
Masters Degree Recipients:
August 2005:
Olgur Celikbas
December 2005:
Brian Bockelman, Larry Evans, Terri Moore, Mark Stigge,
Deanna Turk
May 2006:
Delise Andrews, Diana French, Laurence Grant, Ines
Henriques, Jacob Huseby, Aditi Kar, Richard Lassow,
Shawn Mousel, Silvia Saccon
August 2006:
Julie Amen, Darla Berks, Myrna Bornemeier, Virginia Clark,
Dean Davis, Bryan Engelker, Doug Glasshoff, Shannon
Jessie, Kristin Johnson, Julie Kreizel, Stacie Lefler, Leslie
Lippitt, Tiffany Lothrop, Jim Pfeiffer, Kyle Poore, Anne
Schmidt, Sandi Snyder
2005 UNL Undergraduate Research Conference:
Jonas Azzam, Heather Flores, Robert Lefferts, Derek Stolee
Awards and Fellowships:
2006 UNL Undergraduate Research Conference:
Melissa Ackerman, Derek Boeckner, Tigh Buckles, Jackie
Cecetka, Nicole Gohring, Julianne Harm, Brian Kell, Eric
Robbins, Caleb Sweetser
2005-2006 Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship:
Jacob Huseby, Nathan Axvig
2005 AMS Conference Speakers:
Jonas Azzam, Derek Boeckner, Leanne Hicks, Theang Ho
2005-2006 GAANN Fellows:
Bobbi Buchholz, Matt Dvorak, Christina Eubanks-Turner, Micah
Leamer, David McCune, Livia Miller, Matt Morten, Diana White
2005-2006 MCTP Advanced Fellows (Fall):
Josh Brown Kramer, Paul Cokeley, Andrew Crabbe, Melissa
Luckas, Jacob Weiss
2005-2006 MCTP Advanced Fellows (Spring):
Jennifer Everson, Martha Gregg, Frank Moore