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NOTICES of the AMS 603 Mathematics People NEWS NEWS Mathematics People number near a boundary. We are currently writing a book Nguyen Awarded 2018–2019 on the subject. I also disseminate new research on my blog: Centennial Fellowship ‘Snapshots in Mathematics!’ I believe that persistence is the key to success.” The AMS has awarded its Centen- The Centennial Fellowship carries a stipend of nial Fellowship for 2018–2019 to US$93,000, a travel expense allowance of US$9,300, and Toan T. Nguyen of Pennsylvania a complimentary Society membership for one year. The State University. Nguyen’s research award was made at the recommendation of the Centen- interests are analysis of partial dif- nial Fellows Selection Committee. The primary selection ferential equations, fluid dynamics, criterion is the excellence of the candidate’s research. kinetic theory of gases, nonlinear Please note: Information about the competition for the waves, boundary layers, and weak 2019–2020 AMS Centennial Fellowships will be published turbulence. He will use the Fellow- in the “Mathematics Opportunities” section of an upcom- ship for full support for the aca- ing issue of the Notices. Toan T. Nguyen demic year 2018–2019. Nguyen received his PhD in math- —Elaine Kehoe ematics from Indiana University in 2009 under the direc- tion of Kevin Zumbrun. He was a research postdoctoral fellow at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI from 2009 to 2010 and Prager Assistant Professor at Brown Beck Awarded University from 2010 to 2012 before joining the Penn State faculty in 2013. Birman Fellowship Nguyen provided the following information to the Margaret Beck of Boston Univer- Notices: “I grew up as a coffee farmer in a small village sity has been awarded the AMS Joan back in Vietnam, but it was quite natural for me to study and Joseph Birman Fellowship for mathematics. Indeed, mathematics is my given name at Women Scholars for the academic birth (Toán in Vietnamese). My parents believed math year 2018–2019 in recognition of her and science are the future. In fact, I also have a physics “exceptional research on stability sister (Ly´) and a chemistry brother (Hoá). While most of problems in partial differential equa- the kids in my village ended up dropping out of school tions (PDEs) and spatially extended due to poverty at the time, we all went on to Vietnam Na- dynamical systems.” Her primary tional University in Saigon for an undergraduate degree. research interest is determining the I then got a well-paid and trending job at a technology Margaret Beck nonlinear stability and large-time company, which I actually quit after a few months, when they ordered me to stop bringing math books to work. behavior of solutions to dissipative “I went back to the university to work as a teaching partial differential equations, such as reaction-diffusion assistant, and met D. Le (UTSA), who gave me a paper to equations and viscous conservation laws. This includes read. After I extended the work in his paper, he asked me studying nonlinear waves such as traveling waves and to come to America and work with him. Two years later, spatially and/or temporally periodic patterns. She typi- I went to Indiana University for my PhD.… I ended up cally views these PDEs as infinite-dimensional dynamical graduating in my third year in the program, with several systems and analyzes them using a variety of mathemati- postdoctoral offers from Chicago, Michigan, Brown, and cal techniques, for example, invariant manifolds, similarity the like. variables, geometric singular perturbation theory, expo- “My recent work with E. Grenier (ENS Lyon) proves that, nential dichotomies, and pointwise estimates. She will use for a certain class of initial data, the classical boundary the Fellowship for a full-year sabbatical and to partially layer theory proposed by L. Prandtl in 1904 is false in fund travel to Sydney, Australia, where she will visit the describing the behavior of fluids at a very high Reynolds University of Sydney during 2019. MAY 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 603 Mathematics People NEWS Beck received her PhD from Boston University in 2006 recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship, an NSF Mathematical under the direction of Tasso J. Kaper and C. Eugene Wayne. Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and an NSF She has held postdoctoral positions at the Mathematical CAREER award. She has also been awarded an Alfred P. Sciences Research Institute, the University of Surrey, and Sloan Foundation Fellowship for 2018. Brown University. She became assistant professor at Bos- Kristin L. Umland of Illustrative ton University in 2009 and was a lecturer at Heriot-Watt Mathematics (IM) has been chosen to University in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 2011 to 2013. receive the 2018 Louise Hay Award Since 2015 she has been associate professor at Boston for Contributions to Mathematics University. She held an NSF Mathematical Sciences Post- Education. The prize citation reads doctoral Research Fellowship from 2006 to 2009 and was in part: “Umland’s work has exempli- selected a Sloan Research Fellow for 2012 to 2014. fied a passion for engaging learners The fellowship seeks to give exceptionally talented in worthwhile mathematics while women extra research support during their mid-career seeking to enhance and support years. The fellowship was established in 2017 with a gener- their instruction. She has revamped ous gift from Joan and Joseph Birman. The primary selec- Kristin L. Umland mathematics courses for non-math- tion criterion for the Birman Fellowship is the excellence ematics majors and for prospective of the candidate’s research. The award carries a stipend of teachers, led collaborative professional development US$50,000. Joan Birman explains her decision to establish projects for K-12 teachers in New Mexico, and investigated the prize with AMS as follows: “I feel that my choice to the impact of Math Teachers’ Circles. Recently Umland give money to the AMS rather than to some other worthy has been instrumental in the development of Illustrative organization was the right decision. When I proposed the Mathematics, a heavily used, online mathematics resource Satter Prize, Bill Browder (then AMS president) and oth- that advances improvement in mathematics education ers asked me thoughtful questions that led to small but through a rich, coherent collection of over 1,200 vetted important changes in its structure. The proposal for the instructional tasks, as well as assessment items, lesson Fellowship was similar in that excellent questions were plans, and professional development modules.” Umland asked by people I respect and it was shaped with the help received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago of thoughtful colleagues. I know many good organiza- under the direction of Stephen D. Smith. She served on the tions, but no other where I could feel the same trust that faculty of the University of New Mexico until 2016, when my money will be used well for its intended purpose of she became vice president of IM Product Development. helping more women mathematicians to develop their She received the AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching creative voices.” and Learning of Mathematics in 2017. Erica Flapan of Pomona Col- —Elaine Kehoe lege is the recipient of the 2018 M. Gweneth Humphreys Award for Men- torship of Undergraduate Women in 2018 AWM Awards Mathematics. According to the prize citation, “Flapan’s dedication to her The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) pre- students is exceptional, and she has sented several awards at the Joint Mathematics Meetings received awards for teaching and in San Diego, California, in January 2018. advising at her home institution Lillian Pierce of Duke Univer- as well as at the national level. She sity was awarded the 2018 AWM Sa- Erica Flapan has also devoted many of her sum- dosky Research Prize “in recognition mers to teaching in mathematics of her outstanding contributions programs and institutes, most often at the Summer Math to harmonic analysis and analytic Program for Women at Carleton College. She has served as number theory.” According to the a mentor to more than sixty female undergraduates, many prize citation, “Pierce is one of the of whom have gone on to receive their doctorates and most talented, original and vision- have careers in mathematics.” She received her PhD from ary analysts of her generation. Her the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1983. She was research spans and connects a broad awarded the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award Lillian Pierce spectrum of problems ranging from of the MAA in 2011, and she is a Fellow of the AMS. Her character sums in number theory to areas of research interest are low-dimensional topology singular integral operators in Euclidean spaces. She has and knot theory. Flapan will become editor in chief of the made far-reaching contributions to the study of discrete Notices of the AMS in January 2019. analogs of harmonic-analytic integral operators, taking Melanie Matchett Wood of the University of Wiscon- inspiration in classical Fourier analysis, but drawing also sin—Madison has been awarded the 2018 AWM-Microsoft on methods from analytic number theory such as the circle Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory “in recogni- method and diophantine approximation.” She received her tion of her exceptional research achievements in number PhD from Princeton University in 2009 and has been the theory and algebraic geometry.” According to the prize 604 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 5 Mathematics People NEWS citation, “Wood has made deep and Approach,” The Mathematical Intel- influential contributions to number ligencer 37 (2015), no. 4, in which he theory and algebraic geometry. She applies “a colorful method for visu- excels at drawing connections be- alizing a complicated assertion: that tween different areas of mathemat- every nonconstant polynomial with ics.
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