The Hachemeister Prize Committee has awarded the 2010 Charles A. Hachemeister Prize to Edward W. Frees, Peng Shi, and Emil Valdez for their paper, “Actuarial Applications of a Hierarchical Insurance Claims Model.” Click here for more information.

Joseph Pomianowski, a 2009 graduate with a double major in Mathematics and Molecular and Cell
Biology, has been awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship to Poland, where he will study the life of Stefan Banach. Joseph has just completed an MA in the History of Science at Harvard.

The Mathematics Department’s Annual Awards Day took place Monday, April 12. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address after the ceremony was given by Steve Miller (Williams) “Pythagoras at the Bat: An Introduction to Statistics and Modeling.” Click here for the program and list of honorees.

Mark Naigles has been awarded the Institute of Teaching and Learning 2010-2011 Outstanding Adjunct Award at its Instructional Excellence Recognition Dinner.

Mark Naigles has been awarded the Institute of Teaching and Learning 2010-2011 Outstanding Adjunct Award at its Instructional Excellence Recognition Dinner.

Sixteen undergraduate math majors were elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society. The students are Antoni Brzoska, Levi Benjamin DeValve, Christopher D. Hickey, Cheryl Ann Holowienko, Lindsay Rose King, Kathleen Li, Dominick James Major, Tracy Anne Margiott, Christine Elizabeth McMeekin, Ashley Nicole Ruegg, Joshua Ryan Strupcewski, Acacia Lauren Wagner, Michelle Nevine Wahab, Cheri Lynn Wiggin, Besmir Xhurxhi and Yi Zhang.

Miki Neumann has been selected as the first Stuart and Joan Sidney Professor of Mathematics. The professorship was established with a gift from the four children of Stuart, a recently retired professor in the Mathematics Department, and Joan, a poet, writer-in-residence and special research associate at UConn’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.

The Society of Actuaries, the top professional organization of life actuaries in the US, has recognized the department’s Actuarial Science Program as a Center of Actuarial Excellence. The recognition is initially for 5 years, ending on December 31, 2014.

The recognition makes the department eligible to compete for substantial education and research grants to enhance the program, research in actuarial science and the profession. It also means the department will be promoted on the SOA’s web site.

This recognition will make the department’s already strong actuarial science program even stronger and allow it to become a magnet for attracting even better students for both its undergraduate and graduate components.

Department Head Miki Neumann has expressed his appreciation to the present actuarial science program faculty, Michael Braunstein, Jim Bridgeman, Jim Trimble, Jay Vadiveloo, and Emil Valdez, for bringing bringing the department this honor, as well as former, now retired faculty Louis Lombardi, Richard London, Walt Lowerie and Chuck Vinsonhaler whose hard work for many years brought the department to this point.

Neumann has also thanked Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and Frank Gifford, Director of Development at CLAS, for their strong support of the program and their help during the visitation of the CAE Evaluation Committee, along with the faculty and graduate and undergraduate students who participated in the visitation and helped demonstrate the vibrancy of the program.

The Mathematics Department’s Annual Awards Day was held Thursday, April 16. Opening remarks were made by Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum and the invited address was given by Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College, “Great Moments of the Riemann Zeta-Function.”
Click Here for the schedule and a list of awardees.