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Doug Ravenel’s work on the Kervaire invariant one

February 26, 2016

The Annals of Mathematics has accepted for publication the paper “On the non-existence of elements of Kervaire invariant one”, by  with co-authors Mike Hill from UCLA and Mike Hopkins from Harvard. The paper is over 200 published pages, an unusual devotion of space to one paper for this journal. The length is justified by the need to explain many new things in order to understand the proof.

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Michael Gage and Arnold Pizer win AMS Impact Award

February 5, 2016

WeBWorK screen

Professors  and  have received the 2016 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Gage and Pizer are honored for the creation and development of WeBWorK, one of the first web-based systems that assign and grades homework problems in mathematics and science courses.

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Dinesh Thakur awarded NSA grant

February 5, 2016

Professor  has received a two-year NSA award for a project entitled Multi-zeta and related structures in function field arithmetic. Professor Thakur is a leading figure in this field and is widely known to the mathematical public due to the Arizona Winter School in number theory he has ran at the University of Arizona for many years.

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Xuwen Chen awarded NSF grant

November 10, 2015

Xuwen Chen

Assistant professor  has been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation grant in the amount of $107,444 for a project entitled Mean-Field Limits of Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Free Boundaries in Kinetic Theory.

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Thomas Tucker awarded NSF grant

November 10, 2015

Thomas Tucker

Professor and Chair  has been awarded a three year National Science Foundation grant in the amount of $151,000 entitled Potential density, uniform boundedness, and points in special position.

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