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LSU maintains strong NSF research support

LSU Math Department to lead $5 million NSF Math-Science Partnership

Baton Rouge student wins Silver at International Math Olympiad

Six math professors recognized as LSU "Rainmakers"

Susanne Brenner appointed Vice President of SIAM

X-math session on twisted Alexander polynomial

Jintao Cui Receives a 2009 SIAM Student Paper Prize

Jasson Vindas Wins National Award

Gestur Olafsson to receive Distinguished Research Master Award

Susanne Brenner co-chairs "Simulating our Complex World: Modeling, Computation and Analysis"

Faculty and graduate students discuss the GEAUX program and the VIGRE grant.

A student enrolled in the new Math 1021 R2R program works under the guidance of Phoebe Rouse.

New Faculty

Xiaoliang Wan joins the faculty as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Center for Computation and Technology. He is a graduate of Brown University in applied mathematics and studied under George Em Karniadakis. Prior to joining LSU, he was a postdoc at Princeton University in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. His research interests are numerical methods for stochastic PDEs, error control and adaptivity for numerical methods, and parallel scientific computing.

NSF Postdoc Michael Neilan graduated from the University of Tennessee under the direction of Xiaobing H. Feng. He is coming to LSU as an NSF postdoctoral fellow working under the supervision of Susanne Brenner. His primary research interests are in computational mathematics: numerical solutions to PDEs and finite element methods.

VIGRE Postdoctoral Associate Scott Armstrong graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in May 2009 completing his thesis under the direction of Lawrence C. Evans. His research interests are the study of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.

VIGRE Postdoc Heather Russell graduated from the University of Iowa in May 2009 under the direction of advisors Charles Frohman and Julianna Tymoczko. Her research interests are geometric topology, knot homologies, contact topology and connections to algebraic geometry.

VIGRE Postdoc Andrew Barker joins the department with a joint appointment with the Center for Computation and Technology. He graduated in May 2009 from the University of Colorado in applied mathematics. His research interests are in finite element methods for the parallel simulation of fluid-structure interaction and analyzing linear solvers and preconditioning techniques for parallel computation.

Tadele Mengesha graduated from Temple University in May 2007 completing his thesis under the direction of Yury Grabovsky. He comes most recently from Coastal Carolina University where he is an Assistant Professor. His research interests are Calculus of Variations and Mathematics of Materials Science. He is working with Robert Lipton and is supported by a grant from the NSF.

Postdoctoral Associate Eun-Hee Park graduated from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in South Korea and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Korea Research Foundation. She works on domain decomposition methods and has a joint appointment in the Math Department and CCT.