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| Award Recipients for 2012 The Division of Applied Mathematics has awarded the following students for their achievements: Xinghui Zhong Dunmu Ji Award Jeffrey Miller President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Nadejda Drenska and Sameer Iyer The Rohn Truell Premium Prize in Applied Mathematics Kamaljit Chowdhary The David Gottlieb Memorial Award Luan Lin The Stella Dafermos Award Sirui Tan The Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Prize Sigma Xi |
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Research by engineers at Johns Hopkins University and mathematicians at Brown has led to a breakthrough revealing that higher order polyhedra can indeed fold up and assemble themselves. David Gracias and Govind Menon, with support from the National Science Foundation, have developed self-assembling 3-D micro- and nanostructures that can be used in many applications, especially medicine.
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DYNAMICS OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONSMay 4-6, 2012This workshop is held in honor of the 60th birthday of John Mallet-Paret, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. |
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Brown University and the Insituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), a leading mathematics research institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, signed a memorandum of understanding Monday, March 26, 2012, to promote exchanges, conferences, and research collaborations. David Mumford, professor emeritus of applied mathematics gave a lecture at the IMPA to celebrate the new agreement.
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Stuart Geman, James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences this past May 2011. |
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Professor Emeritus David Mumford receives the National Medal of Science from President Obama at the White House, November 2010.
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Andrew Furnas, class of 2011, is awarded the Marshall Scholarship. |
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