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Honors+awards+activities of our group members
2024
July
Congratulations to Wencai on being awarded the IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize at the ICMP 2024. IUPAP News
June
Our REU paper ``Floquet isospectrality of the zero potential for discrete periodic Schrodinger operators" got accepted by J. Math. Phys. .
May
Congratulations to Matt on passing the PhD defense. Well done, Dr. Faust!
Our PReMa program has received the Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant from the Mathematical Association of America.
April
Congratulations to Cindy Zhuang on being accepted into the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin!
March
Congratulations to Wencai for being named one of the 2024 Simons Fellows in Mathematics. Simons Announcement; TAMU Announcement
TAMU hosted the 7th TX-LA Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 23-24, 2024. Website
February
Matt Faust accepted a postdoc offer from MSU. Matt will be working with Ilya Kachkovskiy.
Xueyin Wang, who is a PhD candidate at the Chern Institute of Mathematics under the guidance of Jiangong You, accepted a postdoc offer from TAMU.
January
Our REU groups finished a research paper: Floquet isospectrality of the zero potential for discrete periodic Schrodinger operators. arXiv version
Our special sessions "Periodicity in Quantum Systems" and "Quasi-periodic and Disordered Systems" (co-organized with Matt Faust, Omar Hurtado, Long Li, Tal Malinovitch, Alberto Takase) were accepted by the 2024 AMS Fall Central Sectional meeting.
2023
November
Nick and Wencai organized the mini-Symposium "(Complex)analysis in differential equations" at 2023 SIAM TX-LA Meeting.
October:
We hosted Spectral Theory and Applications (we will also use the conference to celebrate Peter Kuchment and his contributions to the field), Texas A&M University, October 13–15, 2023.
August:
Our Mini-Symposium "(Complex)analysis in differential equations" (co-organized with Nick Treuer) was accepted by 2023 SIAM TX-LA Meeting.
July:
With Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Wencai received a Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS).
June:
Our special session "Spectral Methods in Quantum Systems" (co-organized with Matthew Powell) was accepted by 2024 JMM.
April:
Yichen Tao accepted an offer from the 2023 Polymath JR program.
William Frendreiss wins a 2023 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award from the College of Arts & Sciences.
March:
Wencai Liu received a NSF grant DMS-2246031 titled "(Semi)algebraic Geometry in Schrodinger Operators and Nonlinear Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations".
Matt Faust will participate in the program Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World, the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI), Fall 2023.
William Frendreiss has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, media.
William Frendreiss accepted a PhD offer in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) at Georgia Tech.
Jenna Plute, Yichen Tao, Ethan Tran and Cindy Zhuang gave slide and poster presentations in the 6th annual TX-LA undergraduate mathematics conference hosted by LSU.
Cindy Zhuang accepted an offer from the summer REU program ICER ACRES at MSU. Cindy also received an offer from North Carolina A&T State University and Elon University Joint REU in Mathematical Biology.
Jenna Plute accepted an offer from a REU program (Project: Some Invariants in Algebraic Graph Theory) at James Madison University. Jenna also received offers from REU programs at University of Maryland and Occidental College.
Feb:
Our BIRS Workshop "Randomness and Quasiperiodicity in Mathematical Physics" (co-organized with David Damanik, Constanza Rojas-Molina and Mira Shamis) was accepted. The workshop is scheduled for the week January 14–19, 2024.
Rodrigo accepted an Assistant Professor offer at PUC-Rio.
Matt Powell accepted the Hale Visiting Assistant Professor offer at Georgia Tech.
2022
Dec 15: Andrew Yu, a former high school participant of the research program "STODO" (co-authored one journal publication), got an undergraduate offer from Harvard University. Congratulations to Andrew.
Dec 9: The undergraduate research program "STODO" got a funding from College of Arts and Sciences, TAMU.
Dec 9: Matt Powell successfully defended his PhD thesis.
August: Sithija Manage started his graduate school at Cornell University. Good luck.
April: William Frendreiss was selected as Texas A&M nominees for the 2022 Astronaut Scholarship. Media
Feb: William Frendreiss was selected as Texas A&M nominees for the 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Media