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Spring 2021 Mathematics Newsletter
Professor Misha Shapiro has been named a 2021 American Mathematical Society Fellow for his contributions to enumerative algebraic geometry and to the theory of cluster algebras.
Click here to read more about this and other 2020-2021 All-University Awards.
Professor Sasha Volberg has been named an American Mathematics Society Fellow for his contributions to harmonic analysis and its relations to geometric measure theory.
MSU's team placed in the top 25 in the highly competitive Putnam Competition. This exam has top undergraduates solve challenging problems and attracts entrants from over 500 universities in the US and Canada. Pictured are individual entrant Jamie Schmidt and Putnam team members Neel Modi, Luke Wiljanen and Mohit Bansil.
Charles Hultquist and Andrew McDonald, graduating seniors in our Advanced Track Program, received 2021 Goldwater Scholarships. For more information about this scholarship, see the 2021 NIFS Goldwater announcement.
Olga Turanova and Preston Wake received funding for an Honors Research Seminar "Inquiry in numbers". A student-led introduction to number theory, including prime numbers, factorization, and modular arithmetic aimed at first-year honors students.
Read more about this award on the NIFS Marshall Scholarship Announcement.
