Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

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Table of Contents

Letter from the Chair

» SoM Chair Mike Wolf (Page 1)

Undergraduates

»  NSF REUs (Page 4)

»  Little Einsteins (Page 7)

»  Math Lab Solves the Tutoring Support Equation (Page 9)

Awards

»  2021 Diversity Symposium (Page 10)

»  Class of 1934 CIOS Honor Roll (Page 11)

»  Dan Margalit and Gary Lavigne Receive

Teaching Honors (Page 12)

»  Kimberly Stanley Wins Leadership in Action Award (Page 14)

»  Molei Tao Wins Cullen-Peck Award (Page 15)

»  Sung Ha Kang Wins CoS Mentoring Award (Page 16)

Featured Award

» Lea Marzo Wins Staff Excellence Award (Page 17)

Awards (continued)

»  SoM Members Earn Top Annual Awards (Page 20)

»  Bhanu Kumar Awarded Prestigious

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (Page 21)

»  SoM Advances in U.S. News Best Graduate

School Rankings (Page 23)

»  Frances O. Hite Scholarship and

Eric R. Immel Memorial Award (Page 25)

»  Xu-Yan Chen Awarded 2021 SoM Fulmer Prize (Page 26)

»  Yuchen He Wins Sigma Xi Award (Page 26)

Research Awards

»  Wenjing Liao Wins NSF CAREER Award (Page 27)

»  Roberta Shapiro Wins 2022 Haley Fellowship (Page 28)

»  Hannah Choi Awarded Coveted Sloan Fellowship (Page 29)

»  Dan Margalit to Give AMS Maryam Mirzakhani

Invited Adress at JMM 2022 (Page 30)

Featured Articles

»  Inaugural Hubbard Chair to be Filled by Svetlana Jitomirskaya (Page 31)

»  Michael Wolf Appointed SoM Chair (Page 33)

Research

» SoM to Present at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) (Page 35)

» ICERM Semester on Braids Planned for 2022 (Page 36)
» Meet Santosh Vempala: Director of the ACO Program (Page 37) » Using Moths for Innovative Defense Reserach (Page 39)
» Special Session on Mathematical Models for Biomulecular

and Cellular Interactions at JMM (Page 40)

Events

»  Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference (Page 41)

»  Workshop in Convexity and High-Dimensional

Probability (Page 42)

»  Stelson Lecture 2022 (Page 43)

»  Tech Topology Summer School 2021 (Page 45)

External and Alumni News

» Alex Blumenthal in Siam News for Chaotic Mixing and the Batchelor Spectrum (Page 46)

» Ryan Hynd Receives 2022-2023 Claytor-Cilmer Fellowhip (Page 47)

» Jinyoung Park Proves Kahn-Kalai Expectation Threshold Conjecture (Page 48)

» Alum Ben Elkins Tanslation of Hausdorff Poem Picked up by JHM (Page 49)

» Rachel Kuske Cited by Heriot-Watt University (Page 50) » AMS Tribute for the Legacy of Robin Thomas (Page 51) » Santosh Vempala Recognized in AMS 2022

Class of Fellows (Page 53)
» Santosh Vempala in Quanta Magazine for ACM-SIAM

Best Paper Award (Page 54)

Promotions and Farewells

»  Recent Promotions in SoM (Page 55)

»  Enid Steinbart Retires (Page 56)

Outreach

»  SoM At the Atlanta Science Festival (Page 57)

»  High School Math Competition (Page 60)

Meet the Grads

» Meet the Grads - Noah Caplinger (Page 61)