The Mathematics Department’s Annual Awards Day took place Thursday, April 26 at 3:30 PM in IMS 20. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Michael Zieve (Univ. Michigan) on “Square Values of Polynomials.”

Emil Valdez has been awarded (along with his co-author Jed Frees of Wisconsin) the 2011 David Garrick Halmstad prize by the Actuarial Foundation for the best actuarial research published in 2010.

Emil Valdez and his co-authors Andreas Tsanakas, Jan Dhaene and Steven Vanduffel have been awarded the the Lloyd’s of London Science of Risk Prize in the category for Insurance Operations and Markets on November 24, 2011.

Charles Vinsonhaler, along with co-authors John Clark and Kevin O’Meara, had their book “Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra: Weaving Matrix Problems through the Weyr Form” published by Oxford University Press.

Fabiana Cardetti, in collaboration with Mary Truxaw and Megan Staples (Neag School of Education), has been awarded $381,130 by the State Department of Higher Education under the 2011 Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program. This grant will support the year-long project entitled: “UConn MLA: Mathematics Leadership Academy” to provide professional development in mathematics content and pedagogy for middle and high school mathematics teachers from across four public school districts in Connecticut. The program includes 12 credits of graduate coursework for participating teachers, as well as extensive school-based support for collaborative leadership activities related to mathematics education.