Greg Blekherman has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal Nonnegative Polynomials, Sums of Squares and Real Symmetric Tensor Decompositions. According to the NSF web site, "The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research."

School of Mathematics graduate student Joseph D. Walsh, a second year student in our PhD program, has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. According to the NSF: "The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions." The fellowship offers three years of support. NSF received 14,000 applications for the 2014 competition.

Professor Martin Short is one of the inaugural recipients of the LexisNexis Dean's award. The company states that "The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding educators from among the untenured junior faculty at the assistant professor level. Award recipients are selected for extraordinary effectiveness in classroom teaching, educational innovations, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, and impact on the postgraduate success of students." There were three winners, one each from the Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences.

Christine Heitsch and Brett Wick have been awarded the College of Sciences Faculty Mentor Award for their work mentoring post-docs. The award, sponsored by the College and the Institute's ADVANCE project, will be presented at the College of Sciences Advisory Board meeting on April 25th and includes a monetary bonus.

The Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions conference will be held June 23-25, 2014 at the University of Cambridge, UK. It takes place on the occasion of Evarist Giné’s 70th birthday. It will attempt to reflect recent developments in the many areas that Evarist has transformed and worked on in his distinguished career: from probability in Banach spaces, empirical, chaos- and U-process theory to mathematical and nonparametric statistics.

Organizers:

Professors Christine Heitsch, Doug Ulmer, Brett Wick and Hao Min Zhou have received a large National Science Foundation Mentoring Through Critical Transition Points (MCTP) grant to support post-docs in the School of Mathematics. This five-year, $1.3M project is called IMPACT (Interdisciplinary Mathematics Preparation And Career Training). It will bring three cohorts of post-docs to Georgia Tech for three-year appointments, providing them with a variety of research, training, and mentoring opportunities centered around interactions between mathematics and other disciplines ("Math+X").  

Adam Marcus (PhD ACO'08, advisor Prasad Tetali) will receive the 2014 George Polya Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Chicago in July. He will share the prize with his coauthors Daniel Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava for their proof of the Kadison-Singer Conjecture.

The George Polya Prize, established in 1969, is given every two years, alternately in two categories: (1) for a notable application of combinatorial theory; (2) for a notable contribution in another area of interest to George Polya, such as approximation theory, complex analysis, number theory, orthogonal polynomials, probability theory, or mathematical discovery and learning.

Professor Christian Houdré is a member of the organizing committee for the Seventh International Conference on High Dimensional Probability that will take place May 26-31, 2014 at the Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse (IESC). The meeting will consist of a mix of formal and informal discussions and presentations. It is not only intended to present the current state-of-the art in the field, but also to point out important open problems and to set new directions for the field.

Other organizers include:

A list of topics includes:

  • Limit Theorems
  • Empirical Processes and their Applications
  • Probability Inequalities
  • High Dimensional Statistics
  • Small Deviations
  • Statistical Learning Theory
  • Spin/Glass Methods
  • Convex Geometry and Applications
  • Random Matrices
  • Additive Combinatorics

Tech's School of Mathematics is a big part of the Constructive Functions 2014 Conference to be held May 26-30, 2014 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Professor Doron Lubinsky is a member of the organizing and scientific committees and Professor Jeff Geronimo is on the scientific committee for the conference. School of Mathematics alumnus, Professor Douglas Hardin, is also an organizer of this conference.

The focus of this conference is on all aspects of constructive function theory, from asymptotics to zero distribution and on minimum energy problems on manifolds.

This year, the conference will honor the 70th birthday of Ed Saff. In 2004, the School of Mathematics hosted the Constructive Functions Tech-04 Conference honoring Ed Saff's 60th birthday. The topics and broad international involvement in this conference reflect Ed's seminal contributions to these areas of research as well as his career long efforts to build connections between mathematical communities around the world.

Professor Greg Blekherman is one of the lecturers at the summer school "Convex Geometry - Discrete and Computational" to be held at the Berlin Mathematical School during June 29-July 10, 2015 and organized by Martin Henk (Technische Universität Berlin) and Raman Sanyal (Freie Universität Berlin).

The aim of the summer school is to introduce contemporary methods from discrete and computational convex geometry to a broad audience ranging from graduate students to postdocs and junior faculty. The central theme is the computation with non-linear convex bodies by way of structural insights. The courses will be supplemented with problem sessions and guest lectures.

Lectures include:

  • Alexander Barvinok (U Michigan) "Integer points in polyhedra"
  • Greg Blekherman (Georgia Tech) "Convex geometry of nonnegative polynomials"
  • Jesus de Loera (UC Davis) "Convex geometry problems from optimization"
  • Frank Vallentin (U Köln) "Packings, coverings, and embeddings"

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