Spring 2003 Graduation
Some of the Math graduates are listed above. They are, from left to right Alex Hill (?), Brandon Meredith, Ryan Vaughan, Jenny Law, Jeremy Barrett, ?, Blair Dowling, David Eger, Todd Lundquist, and William Thayer.
We had more graduates this past semester, and even have some information about where they are going. My apologies to those majors that I don't recognize. Send me your name, and I'll update the page.Blair Dowling and Askay Dayal receive Computing Research Awards
Two double majors in Math and Computing have won first place awards in the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Program. They are Blair Dowling and Askay Dayal, and they received these awards in April 2003. This competition has two sets of awards, the Judges Awards, and the Students Awards.
Blair Dowling placed first in the Judges Awards, for the project "A Stochastic Model for HIV Infection" with Faculty Advisor Dana Randall.
Askay Dayal was part of a team of Jeffrey Tchang, Lili Lili, Shivank Dua, and Umang Dua with the project "Biometric Interface using a Galvanic Skin Response System" and Faculty Advisor: Melody Moore
Congratulations to both!
Blair Dowling to receive Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Prize
For the second time in three years, a Mathematics Major is to receive the Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship prize. This is a prize of cup and $5000 to a Georgia Tech senior judged to have the most outstanding academic qualifications. Only the performance in course work counts in the competition. The competition is then reduced to seniors with a 4.0. And a committee solicits letters of nomination for this select group of students.
David Vener won the prize in 2001. David is now a graduate student at MIT, and he just won a NSF graduate fellowship. See the blog immediately below this one.
Blair has had oustanding participation in extracurricular activities. (Not important for this competition!) One of the important points for her has been the senior project in Computing that she has been involved with under the diretion of Professor Dana Randall. This project seeks to model the patterns of HIV infection in the human body, building up a probabilistic model of how individual cells become infected.
Blair has proven to be a vital member of an interdisciplinary team developing this model, and in so doing, she taught herself elements of human immunobiology, especially how it relates to HIV infection. These elements have been incorporated into the model, which now matches some experimentally derived data.
Blair Dowling will be starting graduate school in mathematics. She has offers from Princeton and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Three GT grad win 2003 NSF Graduate Fellowships
The 2003 NSF Graduate Fellowship have just been announced, and three GT grads have been given the fellowships. All three have already graduated, and are pursuing graduate studies elsewhere.
Bronn, Nicholas Torleiv Churchill College Cambridge, ENGLAND CB3 0DS MATH/APPS Georgia Institute of Tech Massachusetts Inst of Technology Vener, David Paul 10 Emerson Place Apartment 6H Boston, MA 02114 MATH/APPS Georgia Institute of Tech Massachusetts Inst of Technology Wand, Andrew Address Not Available for Publication MATH/TOPOL Georgia Institute of Tech U of California-Berkeley
There are 33 awards in math altogether. Those of you who are seniors now, and starting grad school in the fall, are strongly encouraged to apply again in the fall.
Evans Harrell points out: Stephen Young, a first-year graduate student, was among only 83 applicants recognized by the NSF with an honorable mention. Congratulations, Stephen!The only other undergraduate institution with more than one winner was Harvard. Tech won as many Math Fellowships this year as the entire U. of California system, for example.
Georgia Tech had a total of ten NSF Fellows in today's announcement, and the awardee in Chemical Engineering is Lily Tong, our colleague Yung Tong's daughter.
Congratulations to the Tong family!
The other Tech awardees are: Paul Edwards and David Zurow, CS; Jay Silver and Shuodan Chen, EE, Galen Robertson, ME; and Larissa Cottrill, NE.
Morgan Mager, who got an honorable mention from the NSF in Materials. Morgan is an undergrad TA in our department (who took calculus from me).
The other honorable mentions at Tech are:
"Ford James Christopher" "Gersbach Charles Alan" "Harrison Jenny Ruth" "Hays James Henry" "Markewich Helen Ann" "McDonald Austen Norment" "Reed Matthew Robert" "Rosera Keegan Everett" "Schindler Grant Evan" "Watson Kristie Lynn"
Blair Dowling to Participate in IAS Program For Women in Mathematics
Blair Dowling has been selected as a participant in the Program for Women in Mathematics that is held each May at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton New Jersey.
This program brings together women in mathematics, either advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. It is a short program, with a scientific focus that changes each year. Blair will be the first GT undergraduate to participate in the program.
Stimpson, Conner, Dowling to Receive Awards
Andrew Stimpson, Claire Conner and Blair Dowling are to receive awards at the Student Awards Banquet on April 16th. Andrew is named the outstanding Junior, Claire is receive a Wollford award based on her high level of service to the Student Coop organization, and Blair is the Outstanding Senior.
Pi Mu Epsilon Dinner, April 2003,
Attendees included: Alan Michael, Casey Warmbrand, Blair Dowling, Brittney Hughes, Robert Pruvenok, Stewart, Claire Connor, David Eger. Apologies to anyone who I left out!
April Fools Joke
The April Fools joke this year announced a solution to P not equals NP by two women mathematicians April Privoyda (Roughly "First" in Russian) and Quatro Primiere (4-First, of course). The methods of proof drew upon the uhhhm fictious work of the French Bagdonov's string theory, actually published in respectable physics journals, much to the chagrin of physicists.
If that wasn't enough of a hint, the inventive pair also introduced several dubious names for new elementary particles. I'll leave the link above open for a view days, as well as the link to last year's April Fools.
Association for Women in Mathematics Mentor Network
I recently received this email message concerning a relatively recent program run by the Association for Women in Mathematics, in which they seek to assign mentors to women pursuing careeres in mathematics.
AWM MENTOR NETWORK
The goal of the new AWM Mentor Network is to match mentors, both men and
women, with girls and women who are interested in mathematics and/or are pursuing
careers in mathematics. The
network is intended to link mentors, mathematicians working in
universities, government, or industry, with a variety of groups
including undergraduates.
Matching is based on common interests in careers in academics or industry,
math education, balance of career and family, or
general mathematical interests. Since communication is usually through
email, a mentee can have a mentor across North American and possibly the world.
Interested? Here is what you can do.
REQUEST A MENTOR:
Do want to know what life is like beyond the undergraduate career?
Would you like to find out about opportunities for math graduate degrees
and future careers? Do
you need some advice as you pursue your mathematical studies? Do you have
questions for someone who has experience and expertise as a mathematician? Then request
to be matched with a mentor from the AWM Mentor Network!
Just fill out a form on the Mentor Network web site.
http://www.awm-math.org/mentornetwork.html
For more information, contact:
Contact: Prof. Rachel Kuske
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
#121-1984 Mathematics Road
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2
phone: (604)822-4973
fax: (604)822-6074
email: rachel@math.ubc.ca
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~rachel
David Eger Named Fulbright Scholar
David Eger, double major in CS and Applied Math, applied for, and has been awarded, a Fulbright Fellowship to study Mathematics in Budapest Hungary. His current thinking is to postpone his graduate studies in CS to take this position. David became aquainted with Budapest through the Budapest Semesters in Math, and wanted to go back.
The Fulbright Fellowship program sponsors academic and artistic exchanges with nearly every country in the world.
Women, Science and Technology Learning Center
The Women, Science and Technology has a Learning Center, which is a program for Women at Georgia Tech. Lisa Bennington writes:
Hello! I'm an Applied Math Major, and I am living in the WST LC for the 02-03 school year. Basically, what it is, is an opportunity for the women at Tech to meet other women that have similar intrests and experiences as themselves. Given the majors of most of the women in the community, and the ratio of men to women at Tech, we get to meet and bond with many women we would probably never meet in a selected school year. It not only gives us an opportunity to meet other women, but the WST sponsors arrange LOTS of lunches and seminars with guest speakers that lecture about women in the work force, and liberation, and advances made by women in technology, math, science, engineering etc., etc, etc... Lisa BenningtonThey are recruiting women for the next academic year.
Putnam Scores Are In: 11 score points on the Exam
The William Lowell Putnam Exam, given on the First Saturday in December, is a 6 hour exam, taken by about 3000 students nationwide. The median score on the exam is 2 points out of 120 possible. Among the 14 students who toke the exam last December, 11 scored at the median or higher. The team as a whole scored only 101st place, but the very encouraging part is the broad participation, and the fairly high scores by some students who were first time takers of the exam.
Yakov kerzhner, with 39 points, ranks 246th, while those who scored between 20-29 rank between 415 and 676. next semester, Professor Yang will run a practice session, for the first time you can take a one hour credit for these sessions, by enrolling in a Math 4801 course. The free pizza will continue as well.
From Yang Wang
I have received the scores for the Putnam today. I'm happy to report
that among the 14 stuednts who took the exam, 11 had scored points.
Here are the scores:
Yakov Kerzhner 39
Brian Nakamura 29
Steve Lansel 27
Jim Ogilvie 22
Eric Young 20
Matt Powell 19
Justin Melvin 18
Nathan Bell 10
Brandon Luders 10
Todd Lundquist 4
Nguyen Truong 2
There were 3349 contestants, and the median score is 2 points.
Two Research Support Opportunities, Deadlines Early April
PURA Award This is availible to all GT undergrads, and can be used in any term. The Undergraduate Studies Office is accepting applications for the President's Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA) for summer semester 2003. Students apply after obtaining a research project form a faculty mentor. Undergraduate students may apply for part-time salary up to $1500 or travel money to give a presentation at a professional meeting. Application and instructions are available for download. Applications are due April 1 in the Undergraduate Studies Office. Submit: IN PERSON-232B French Blgd; MAIL-mail code 0740; FAX-404-385-0748; E-MAIL-E-mail attached PDF file and follow with hard copy with signatures. Questions? Call Leigh Bottomley at 404-385-4026
Undergrad Research Internship This is a new program, and seems to be especially target to those who will be graduating in the 2004-2005 time period. The idea is that these fellowships are there to help build a successful application for graduate study fellowships. There will be 20-30 of these campus wide.
This paid internship is designed for rising juniors or rising seniors
who plan to pursue doctoral work AND plan to apply for the NSF or
similar graduate fellowships.
Eligibility requirements:
-Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents
-Students must be conducting research in fields supported by the NSF
graduate fellowship (e.g. computing, engineering, math, natural
sciences, social sciences, urban planning, economics, international
relations, history of science, archaeology, and others).
In addition to payment, students receive support and advice on their
graduate school and fellowship applications.
An application form and a complete description is attached.
The application may also be found at
http://www.grad.gatech.edu/prepare/index.html.
If students have questions, they may contact me.
(amanda.gable@grad.gatech.edu)
For most of you, the VIGRE REU program will pay more than either of these programs. These two programs are to provide seed money for starting undergrad research. Hopefully, they will be around a lot longer than the five year duration of the VIGRE grant.
Walton Symposium on Undergrad Research Deadline is April 1
Morehouse University is putting together an undergrad research symposium on April 26. They are looking for participants. Here is part of an email message I received about it.
One exciting aspect of the Walton Symposium is that we are planning to publish the papers (up to 4 pages). We would like to give students approximately one month after the Symposium to submit their papers to the Symposium Proceedings. Of course this is optional, but we are encouraging students to do it.
Lastly, the judges come from a variety of institutions and disciplines. So far we have confirmed judges from Georgia State (statistics), the CDC, Georgia Tech, Spelman, and Morehouse (comp. sci.). More information is at: http://www.morehouse.edu/dept/math/HJWsymposium.htm
Registration for Fall Semester Coming Up
During the registration for the Fall Semester, we will have some items of special interest to the Undergraduates. They are four in number, the Putnam Exam, the Differential Geometry course, Math Biology, and a Special Topics Course on Fourier Analysis.
Putnam Exam Preps as usual will be run by Professor Wang. And we will continue the free Pizza. But, you can also sign up for a one hour credit M 4801.
Math/ Biol 4755 (Mathematical Biology) will be offered MWF 9 in 322 Cherry Emerson (066A,322). Instructor is Christopher Klausmeier. The prereq is Calc II.
Fourier Analysis will be a M 4803 course, taught by Professor Brody Johnson, who is a VIGRE postdoc. His sylabus and course description is:
Course Syllabus: An Introduction to Applied Fourier Analysis Professor Brody Johnson It is safe to say that in almost every engineering curriculum students encounter Fourier series in at least one of their engineering courses. In electrical engineering this frequently occurs in an advanced course on signals and circuits, while in mechanical engineering Fourier series are generally seen in a junior level course on vibration. Such exposure to Fourier series is extremely beneficial to the student, but often is too short for the students to develop much in the way of theoretical understanding. Moreover, in practice the students will generally work with discrete data and in place of Fourier series the relevant mathematical tool becomes the discrete Fourier transform. What follows is the syllabus for a junior/senior level mathematics course designed to provide students with a strong foundation in continuous and discrete Fourier methods as well as introduce the students to more advanced topics such as frames, wavelets, and subband coding as time permits. The course would develop rigorous mathematical theory, but would also incorporate applications. The course will benefit from substantial use of MATLAB (or an equivalent platform) and, in particular, at least one computer project should be expected. Possible Text(s): "An introduction to wavelet analysis," by David F. Walnut. Co-requisite: Calculus III. Topic Outline: 1. Linear algebra review: Vector spaces, bases, orthonormality, and the inner product. Functions as vectors. (1 week) 2. Sequences and series of functions: Point-wise convergence, uniform convergence, and convergence in norm. Uniform continuity of functions. (2 weeks) 3. Fourier Series I: Fourier coefficients, Bessel's Inequality, Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma, Parseval's Identity, point-wise convergence of partial sums for differentiable functions. (3 weeks) 4. Fourier Series II: Sine and cosine series, convolution, and applications. (1 week) 5. Discrete Fourier transform: DFT for R^n and l^2(Z), convolution, relationship to Fourier series and the z-transform, and applications to signal processing. (3 weeks) 6. Subband coding: Burt-Adelson pyramid scheme, perfect reconstruction filter banks, and basic signal compression. (1.5 weeks) 7. Frames: Finite- and infinite-dimensional frames, and the frame algorithm. (1.5 weeks) 8. Wavelets: Examples, multiresolution analysis (MRAs), connection with subband coding, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), the `a trous algorithm. (2 weeks)
Differential Geometry, Math 4441 will offered in the Fall. It hasn't been offered in three semesters, and was scheduled to be offered in the Spring 04 semester. But, we have another VIGRE postdoc Professor Tomaso Pacini, who is ideally suited to teach the course. We wanted to take advantage of his expertise (and give him a good introduction to GT teaching) so pushed the course up a bit.
Pics from the Lunch
Attendance was good, but all in all a low key affair at the Lunch for Majors. Photos are here.
Eldon, Stephanie, and Sarah were among the freshmen that showed up. Justin, Kate, Larry, and Casey were among the sophomore and junior class that
attended. The seniors were represented by Blair, David Eger, Yakov, and Clark. All of the left over food went to feed starving grad students.
We talked about courses for the spring, Primes in P, and psuedo primes. (I am teaching computational aspects of number theory next semester, and so know some of these things.) Also talked about plans for next semester. There will be one new class for the undergraduates (more details later), and the Putnam exam practice sessions will still have the Pizza, and one hour of credit, if you want it.
Casey brought up the idea of attending the Budapest Semester, followed by the Moscow semester after that. Both semesters would be geared towards getting credit towards a masters degree. Interesting. I haven't heard of this plan, but both of these study abroad opportunities will give you plenty of interesting mathematics.
Blair Dowling will be graduating! This means that there is a set of records for the Math Undergraduate Club that needs a new home! Bright, Aspiring Sophomore or Junior being sought to provide home and sustance for the records and life of the Undergraduate Math Club. No experience in Foster Care required!
Have a great Spring Break, everyone!
Copenhagen the Play, at Seven Stages Theatre
A very successful play, with a substantial scientific theme, is having a run at a local theatre in the Little Five Points district, 7 Stages. The play stars Professor Bill Chaimedes, of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Here is some info about it.
7 Stages presents the regional premiere of C O P E N H A G E N by Michael Frayn winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play F e b 2 7 - M a r c h 16 Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg: Two of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. Once the closest of friends. Now divided by the lines of war. One thing they share in common: the knowledge to build an atomic bomb. The year is 1941. The place is Copenhagen. "Endlessly fascinating ... The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year ... An electrifying work of art" -- Eric Brantley, The New York Times February 27 - March 16 7 Stages Theatre backstage space Thur, Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 5pm $18/$15 for Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, and Sun 5pm $15/$12 for Thurs 8pm and Sat 2pm Tickets on sale now at www.7stages.org or by calling 404-523-7647
Lunch for Majors Tuesday 25 February, Noon-1:30, Skiles 236
Professor Lacey will again host a lunch for majors, Tuesday, 25, from Noon to 1:30. The room is the Math Dept Lounge, Skiles 236.
This is a free event, a deliberate, unabashed effort to get the majors together to hear what every one is up to. I should also have some information about course offerings for the Fall 2003 term that might interest you. The Putnam Practice sessions will be a one hour special topics course in the Fall, with the pizza, just like this past Fall. And I anticipate at least one regular special topics course at the undergrad level. This semester, we are offering two such courses, Professor Morely Combinatorial Games course, and Professor Bellisard's Quantum Computing course.
Research Experience Lining Up for the Summer
The REU program is starting to firm up. Three students to date have been assured of funding for the summer. They are Steve Lansel, with Professor Mason Porter, and Casey Warmbrand and Thomas Callaghan with Professor Mucha.
Steve Lansel is a EE major, who took Professor McCuan's Honors ODE class. In that class, he completed an excellent project on Torcelli's law, and I highlighted that, as well as the other projects, earlier this semester.
Name: Steven Lansel
Project Title: Computer Simulation of Billiard Systems
Supervising Professor: Mason Porter
Project Description:
I will write a program to simulate billiard systems in
Matlab. The user will be able to enter an arbitrary shape for the
billiard table and initial conditions. The simulation will be plotted
in configuration and phase space. Hopefully, the data will be easily
calculated and displayed for analysis and exporting. The program will
be used by anyone studying billiards and hopefully will prove to be a
useful tool in research.
Casey Warmbrand and Thomas Callaghan are both Discrete Math majors, who will be working on Professor Mucha's ideas about Network problems, especially "scale free" and "small world" networks. Thomas will work on the network problem related to Football tournaments, and Casey on the political networks problem. Casey will also be discussing this problem with a political science professor. This area of research also came up in last summer's REU program.
IMPACT Scholarship due February 23
Auxiliary Services is accepting on-line applications for 2003-04 IMPACT
Scholarships through Feb. 23. Faculty/Staff who know students meeting the
following criteria should direct the students to the
www.importantstuff.gatech.edu web page.
Calling all applicants for IMPACT Scholarships
Auxiliary Services is looking for a few good men and women who are
passionate about their causes, relentless in their pursuit of success
and industrious in their methods.
Auxiliary Services will award 10 such students, who have made an
IMPACT on the Georgia Tech community, $3,000 scholarships. Three of the
scholarships will be awarded to student employees of Auxiliary Services
(worked at least four months).
Geared to a wide range of students, the program encourages students
who have made an IMPACT on the Georgia Tech community as leaders and
those in support capacities as well.
Here's the process:
Candidates complete the application and write an essay using the on-line
interface link www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/auxschol.
Three statements of support must accompany the application; one must be
from a Georgia Tech faculty/staff and only one may be from a student peer.
A screening committee makes initial cuts based on a weighted average of
academic achievement, financial need and recommendations.
Interview committees judge finalists and select recipients.
Eligibility:
Must be a full-time student currently enrolled at Georgia Tech or a co-op
student on work term. Must plan to be enrolled at Georgia Tech for the
2003-04 academic year (at least two academic terms Summer 2003 through
Spring 2004).
Must be in good academic standing with at least a 2.5 overall GPA (grade
point average).
Must fulfill all deadlines and requests.
Must be classified as a sophomore or higher (definition of class level is
based on hours earned and anticipated at the end of Spring Semester 2003).
Time Frame:
Jan. 17 -- application available:
www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/auxschol
Feb. 23 -- application deadline
April -- winners announced
Here's the link again:
www.studentcenter.gatech.edu/auxschol
Note: Read The Buzz newsletter (posted on www.importantstuff.gatech.edu)
to learn who the 2002-03 Impact Scholars are and some of their accomplishments.
New REU Info is added. Most Applications are due at the end of February
I have recevied two new Research Experience for Undergraduates information. These will be added to the REU page . The first is a program in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. The projects are connected with a large data base of Ocean and Earth Sciences maintained by the Department. Deadline for application is March 10th, and the program runs from May 27th to July 31. They are recruiting mathematics, science, and engineering majors who have completed their sophomore or junior year.
Professor Mucha has included his descriptions of potential research topics. Professor Mucha is broadly interested in mathematical modelling of a wide variety of things, but most especially particle dynamics. He directed a (very talented) freshman in last summer's REU project. And is currently directing Nathan Bell's computer graphics senior project. This last one is mentioned in several places on this web site.
Three possible projects on the mathematical and computational analysis of complex networks:
Defining a "network" as the graph of connections between a collection of nodes (which may represent individuals, power plants, football teams, etc), the simplest networks are those that are either completely regular like a lattice or those where the links are completely random and independent. Most real networks, however, are more complicated, as in part identified by the recent burst of activity in so-called "small world" and "scale free" networks. There are innumerable networks of scientific and practical interest.
One such network that may be of some special interest to football fans is the network defined by the season schedule defining "connections" between NCAA Division IA and IAA teams. While the current BCS ranking system includes a number of computer rankings, it does not appear that any of them take into account the underlying variable structure of the network defined by who played whom.
A second noteworthy example involves the bipartite network of committees and subcommittees in the House of Representatives, whose structure is obviously of significant practical import from a policy standpoint.
A third possible project involves analysis of toy models for scale free networks that grow over time, including comparison with theories for the connectivity and the roles of statistical fluctuations.
A student working on one of these projects will analyze these networks computationally while also employing techniques from subjects such as graph theory and statistical physics.
Saugta Basu named Sloan Fellow 
Professor Saugata Basu has been named a Sloan Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Every year the Sloan Foundation makes approximately 100 Fellowship Awards. Their website states "These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 112 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics."
Professor Basu is a leading expert in computational algebra and geometry. Last year, he received an NSF CAREER Award, given to top faculty that are less than five years from their PhD. He is currently teaching a graduate special topics course on his research.
Some Majors Have Firmed Up Plans for Summer and Beyond
This is a key month for REU applications. I have been hearing of interest in the GT REU from
Steve Lansel, Brandon Luger, Tom Callaghan, Viven Chua, and Yakov Kerzhner. Others have been
making plans for other REUs and study abroads. One of the more interesting plans is that of
Ryan Hynd. He'll be visiting a Max Planck Insitute in Leipzig Germany for two months this summer.
This is part of research stay by Professor McCuan to the Institute, and Ryan will be able to continue
his study of geometric pde problems, capillary surfaces and related questions that have come out of
last summer's REU in the ACE Lab. (Check past blogs for more info.)
David Eger has been accepted to the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago, Carnegie Melon, and Cornel Universites. He will make a decision about where to go in March. Other graduating majors, such as Clark Alexander and Blair Dowling have been accepted to the University of Cambridge. They will wait on other offers before deceiding to on whether or not to take the offer.
Nathan Bell has been accepted into grad school in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign. This is an outstanding department, with three of its faculty members getting NSF CAREER awards last year. One of these awards went to Professor Y. Yu, in the area of computer graphics. That is Nathan's interest. If Nathan takes the offer, he will join another recent GT graduate, Stephen Kloder. Stephen was a CS major, and one of the first Mathematics minors. Stephen was on the GT Putnam exam team several times.
Blair Dowling has been accepted into Princeton Mathematics. Thor Johnson just finished his PhD under Professor P. Seymour last year. Seymour is a co solver, with GT's Robin Thomas and others, of the Perfect Graph Theorem, highlighted in last semester's Blog.
Yakov Kerzhner is admited to UC Berkeley, Mathematics. If he goes there, he will join Andy Wand, who graduated last year. He has passed his comprehensive exams already. He will likely do his thesis with Professor Kirby, in the area of topology.
And, for those of you with strong academic backgrounds, on February 11, 11 am at the Success Center, Paul Hurst and Amanda Gable, staff members of the Graduate School at Georgia Tech, will be having an introduction to the `prestige' fellowships--Churchill, Gates Cambridge, and the like. Even if you are a freshman, it is not too early to begin planning for such an application.
