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manis has been at , where he helped cre- Croatian Mathematical Society ate the computer science department and served as its first Awards Prize chair. He is a member of the National Academy of Engi- neering and in 1993 received the , the high- Ivan Slapnicˇar from University of Split, Split, Croatia, est award in computer science. was awarded the Croatian Mathematical Society Prize for In 1992 he chaired a National Research Council study his work in the theory of relative perturbations for eigen- which resulted in the book Computing the Future: A Broader value problems. The prize was presented at the start of The Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering. The two First Croatian Mathematical Congress held July 18–20, years’ work with the committee, he said, helped focus his 1996, at the University of Zagreb, in Zagreb, Croatia. This interest on computer science policy. prize will be awarded every four years to a young Croat- ian mathematician under the age of 35 for an outstanding —from NSF Announcement scientific contribution. —from Croatian Mathematical Society Announcement Mathematics Competition Awards Announced Juris Hartmanis Heads NSF At the International Congress of Mathematics Education Computer Directorate in Seville, Spain, this past summer, the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions presented the David Juris Hartmanis, an expert in the Hilbert International Award and the Paul Erdo˝s Awards. and computational complexity, has been appointed assis- These awards recognize mathematicians whose contribu- tant director of the National Science Foundation Direc- tions have played a significant role in the development of torate of Computer and Information Science and Engi- mathematical challenges at the international and, respec- neering (CISE). This directorate has responsibility for NSF’s tively, the national levels. efforts with the Internet, supercomputers, robotics and in- The Hilbert award was presented to Andrew Chiang- telligent systems, information processing systems, and Fung Liu of the University of Alberta. He has worked on a computational research. wide range of mathematical competitions, including the USA After receiving his doctorate in mathematics from the Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), the International Math- California Institute of Technology in 1955, Hartmanis ematical Olympiad (IMO), the Australian Mathematics Com- taught at Cornell and before going petition, and the International Mathematics Tournament to Research Laboratory. Since 1965 Hart- of the Towns. He has been running a local mathematics club

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since 1981 and has received a number of teaching awards also worked extensively on the Navajo and Pima Reserva- from his university. tions, in an NSF-funded Young Scholars program. This pro- The 1994–1995 Erdo˝s award goes to George Berzenyi gram includes a component for teachers and an after- and Tony Gardiner. Berzenyi, a professor of mathemat- school program. He and Tapia work on the SUMMA project ics at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has worked of the Mathematical Association of America (Strengthen- on the USAMO and the American Invitational Mathemat- ing Underrepresented Minorities’ Mathematics Achieve- ics Examination, as well as the Australian Mathematics ment). Competition. He was instrumental in creating Lamar Math- Tapia is the Noah Harding Professor of Mathematical Sci- ematics Day and the Texas Mathematics Olympiad. Gardiner ences at Rice. He also serves as the associate director of has taught in East Africa and lectured in , Austria, minority affairs in the Office of Graduate Studies and as Canada, the U.S., Australia, Norway, and Hungary. He is best the director of education and minority programs of the Cen- known for three contributions: founding the UK Schools ter for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC). In addi- Mathematical Challenge in 1988 (which grew to 105,000 par- tion to overseeing the college careers of hundreds of mi- ticipants by 1993), organizing the Junior Math Olympiad nority students, Tapia has directed the advanced work of of the British Mathematical Olympiad, and serving as na- twenty-eight students, including seven minority students, tional team leader for the British IMO team. in computational and applied mathematics. The programs The 1995–1996 Erdo˝s award goes to Derek Holton of he directs at CRPC have, in less than ten years, reached more the University of Otago. Since arriving in New Zealand in than 750 students and 700 teachers, especially underrep- 1985 Holton has transformed an isolated set of math- resented minorities and women. Tapia, who has served as ematics enrichment programs into a coordinated national a consultant for major corporations and the government, program. His activities include running a regular problem- was the first Mexican-American to be elected to the National solving session for high school students, organizing and Academy of Engineering. participating in mathematics camps for bright students, and conducting research on working with talented students. He —from NSF News Release also initiated the Tournament of the Towns and the In- ternational Mathematical Challenge in New Zealand. Visiting Mathematicians —from World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions Announcement (Supplementary List) Mathematicians visiting other institutions during the 1996–97 academic year have been listed in recent issues Presidential Mentoring Awards of the Notices: July 1996, pp. 784–786; September 1996, Announced p. 988; November 1996, p. 1371. The following is an up- date to those lists (home countries are listed in parenthe- In September the National Science Foundation (NSF) an- ses). nounced that sixteen organizations and individuals were Sharad Agnihorti (United Kingdom), University of selected to receive the Presidential Awards for Excellence Texas, Austin, Analysis, 9/96–8/97. in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. Es- Dragos Hrimiuc (Romania), University of Alberta, Finsler tablished by the White House Office of Science and Tech- Geometry, 4/96–4/97. nology Policy and administered by the NSF, these awards Young Yoon Lee (Korea), University of Alberta, Func- recognize individuals, educational institutions, and orga- tional Analysis, 8/96–7/97. nizations most responsible for enhancing the participation Andrea Nahmod (Argentina), University of Texas, of underrepresented groups in science, mathematics, and Austin, Harmonic Analysis, 9/96–8/97. engineering. Each award includes a $10,000 grant and a Hon-kit Wai (Hong Kong), University of Texas, Austin, Presidential commemorative certificate. Differential Geometry and Topology, 9/96–8/97. Ten awards went to individuals, and among these were Xiao-Qiang Zhao (China), University of Alberta, Dif- two in the mathematical sciences: Joaquin Bustoz of Ari- ferential Equations, Dynamical Systems, 5/96–12/96. zona State University and Richard A. Tapia of Rice Uni- John Zweck (Australia), University of Texas, Austin, versity. They are two of the twenty-seven Mexican-Ameri- Geometry, 9/96–8/97. cans in the U.S. who hold Ph.D.s in mathematics. Bustoz has established mentoring programs for under- represented minority precollege students living in urban areas and on Arizona reservations to encourage their study of mathematics. These programs now reach over 200 stu- dents, and over 1,000 students have gone through the pro- gram since 1985. These efforts have contributed to the at- traction of mathematics at Arizona State University, where one-third of the mathematics majors are minorities. He has

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