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Mathematics Department MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Northwestern University • The Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences • Department of Mathematics Spring 2013 From the Chair Newsletter Jared Wunsch, Chair, Department of Mathematics From the Chair How do you tell the first Bellow lecturer was the eminent p1/10 if a homotopy theory probabilist Alice Guionnet, of MIT. conference is a success? The department’s research profile Department News Punch lines for this joke continues to evolve in new ways, p2/11 are hereby solicited. some predictable and some completely Department Transitions In practice the way unforeseen. In 2013 the department was p3/10 we could tell that our joined by two complex geometers, Valentino Undergraduate News recent conference on Tosatti and Ben Weinkove; together with p4/5 Equivariant, Chromatic, Steve Zelditch, these new hires form a and Motivic Homotopy Theory, organized powerful group in this very exciting and Photo Gallery by Anna Marie Bohmann, John Francis, fast moving field. With the arrival of Nir p6/7 and Paul Goerss, was a smashing success Avni, we have new strength in the theory Graduate News was that the racket made by the assembled of discrete groups, a whole new field for P8/9 homotopy theorists was so loud that the staff us. John Francis, a homotopy theorist, will in the Psychology building, where lectures help carry the department’s longstanding were held, complained. This was clearly a strength in this field in the 21st century; group with a lot of exciting mathematics to he is a rare candidate hired from “within,” convey to one another, and we were excited having been a Boas Assistant Professor to host them. until last year. And Xinwen Zhu brings us The homotopy theory conference was a long sought after expertise in arithmetic the biggest single event in the current algebraic geometry. emphasis year in Algebraic Topology, and Among notable faculty honors this is one of a somewhat dizzying number year, I would especially point to Kevin of exciting things that went on in the Costello’s inauguration as Wayne and department this spring. We had Ingrid Elizabeth Jones Professor of Mathematics. Daubechies, the 2012 Nemmers Prize Valentino Tosatti was awarded a Sloan winner, visiting for the spring quarter; Fellowship before even arriving at NU, Daubechies gave a minicourse on wavelets while Xinwen Zhu won an AMS Centennial as well as a spectacular public lecture “The Fellowship right after getting here. It’s Masters Hand:” can image analysis detect been a fantastic year for recognition of the hand of the master? on the application our department’s excellence in teaching: of wavelet methods in art history. Other Eric Zaslow was named Charles Deering spring events included this year’s McCormick Professorship of Teaching installment of the Mark and Joanna Pinsky Excellence in 2012 and John Alongi was Lectures, given by Fields Medalist Andrei awarded a Charles Deering McCormick Okounkov, as well as the inaugural run of Distinguished Lectureship starting in 2013. a new lecture series generously endowed Ursula Porod received an Arts and Sciences by professor emerita Alexandra Bellow; Alumni Teaching Award and Boris Hanin continued on page 10 2033 Sheridan Rd • Evanston, Illinois 60208 • (847) 491-3298 • http://www.math.northwestern.edu/ Departmental News Highlights Kevin Costello and Eric Zaslow were named Fellowship. Simons Fellows in Mathematics for 2012-13. Ewain Gwynne has been awarded an NSF Graduate Kevin Costello was named the Wayne and Elizabeth Fellowship. Jones Professor in Mathematics. A reception honoring the new installation of the George Congratulations to Northwestern’s Putnam P.A. Healy portrait of Orrington Lunt was team, which ranked 10th in the 2012 Putnam Mathematical held on March 15, 2013. Competition. Northwestern received a Team Honorable Ellen Goldstein was selected as a 2012-13 Project Mention and team member, Ewain Gwynne, received an NExT Fellow. Individual Honorable Mention. Department Assistant Cheryl Albiniak won a WCAS Ingrid Daubechies was awarded the 2012 Frederic Meteor Award for Excellence in a New Position. Graduate Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics for her numerous and Program Melanie Rubin was recognized for 35 years of lasting contributions to applied and computational analysis service in WCAS. Program Assistant Nancy Hickey was and for the remarkable impact her work has had across awarded her 2nd Service Excellence Commendation. engineering and the sciences. She delivered her public lecture, “The Master’s Hand:” can image analysis detect the Business Administrator Greg Jue took a position in hand of the master? on April 24, 2013. WCAS Dean’s Office as Senior Research Administrator. Cheryl Albiniak became the new Business Professor emerita Alexandra Bellow has endowed Administrator for math. Additionally, Nancy Hickey a new lecture series beginning June 2013. The first Bellow accepted a Program Assistant 3 position in the department. Lectures were delivered by Alice Guionnet on June 5-7, 2013. John Alongi was awarded a Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Lectureship beginning September 1, 2013. The 2012-13 Mark and Joanna Pinsky Lectures were delivered by Andrei Okounkov on May 1-3, 2013. Northwestern University awarded an honorary degree to math department alumnus Michael Hopkins. Hopkins, Congratulations to new Fellows of the AMS, professors a distinguished topologist who holds both undergraduate and John Franks, Ezra Getzler, Bryna Kra, graduate degrees in math from NU, was honored at the NU Clark Robinson, Mike Stein, Jared Wunsch, commencement ceremony on Friday, June 21. Steve Zelditch and professors emeriti Eric Friedlander, Mark Mahowald, Stewart Xinwen Zhu was awarded the Centennial Fellowship of Priddy, and Donald Saari. the American Mathematical Society. Valentino Tosatti was awarded a 2012 Sloan Research 2 Department Transitions New Math Faculty joining Northwestern We are happy to welcome the following new mathematics faculty who are joining us in the new academic year. Kate Juschenko Kate Juschenko works in the field of operator algebras and group theory. She obtained Ph.D. in 2011 from Texas A&M University. She did one year postdoc in EPFL, Switzerland and was an assistant professor in Vanderbilt University during Ben Weinkove one year. Originally from Manchester (England), Ben Weinkove obtained his bachelor’s degree from Oxford University. After Aaron Naber receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004, he was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University Aaron Naber’s current and a Royal Society Research Assistant at Imperial College research interests focus on London. He received a Sloan Fellowship in 2008. He held the study of geometrically a faculty position at the University of California, San Diego motivated equations and before arriving at Northwestern in the Fall of 2012. In Winter their applications. His 2013, Ben was appointed full professor. His research is in the work primarily focuses on area of geometric analysis and complex geometry. the study of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds, whether it be lower or upper, and their possible denegenerations in limit spaces. He also works in the other areas of interest, primarily regarding sectional curvature, minimal varifolds, Ricci solitons, harmonic maps between riemannian manifolds, mean curvature flow, Ricci flow, and elliptic equations. Math Faculty Retiring in 2013 Clark Robinson was born in Seattle dynamical systems. These systems are deterministic so there and received his B.S. degree from the is no uncertainty or chance in how they evolve. However, University of Washington and his Ph.D. even though they usually have simple equations, they can in Mathematics from the University of exhibit complex dynamics. He has worked on such aspects California at Berkeley. of dynamical systems as structural stability, applications of He joined Northwestern University symbolic dynamics and stable manifold theory to celestial as an Assistant Professor in 1969 right mechanics and Hamiltonian systems, and chaotic attractors. out of graduate school. He spent the Clark was very involved with the Midwest Dynamical year 1970-71 on leave at the Instituto Systems group that organized conferences for researchers in de Matematica Pura e Aplicada in Rio the field. Although concentrated in the midwest, this group de Janeiro. He became an Associate drew together people from around the country and even Professor in 1973 and Professor in 1978. He served as Chair internationally. He was involved from the early years of this of the Mathematics Department from 1984 to 1987 and from group’s existence and has maintained the mailing list as it 1996 to 1999. evolved from mailing labels to email lists. During his 44 years on the faculty at Northwestern and In recent years, he has taught a variety of courses serving an active participant in the mathematical community, he students interested in economics, including game theory and a has authored over 60 research articles and both a graduate course he developed on optimization. and undergraduate textbook on dynamical systems. He has given numerous talks at conferences around the world. His research interests concern the mathematical aspects of chaotic 3 Undergraduate News 2012 - 2013 Undergraduate Prize Winners in Mathematics Robert R. Welland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Graduating Senior Ewain Nathanael Gwynne Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Junior John Devine Klein Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics
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