Department of Mathematics and Statistics Newsletter 2015 Newsletter | Page 7

in July 2014. She is the primary investigator for a
$10,000 National Science Foundation grant that
will provide support for six researchers from the
United States to participate in the 6PCM Special
Session titled, “Computer-assisted Formalization
of Mathematics.”
Włodek Kuperberg was
one of the organizers of
the conference, Intuitive
Geometry, László Fejes
Tóth Centennial, held at the
Alfréd Rényi Institute of
Mathematics in Budapest in
June 2015.

Xiaoyu (Sophie) Li received
the 2014 Dr. Robert K. Butz
Annual Award for Excellence
in Teaching.

Junshan Lin received the
2015 Dr. Robert K. Butz
Annual Award for Excellence
in Teaching. He was also
awarded a National Science
Foundation grant in the
amount of $144,812 for
his research project titled,
“Modeling and Computation
in Elastography.”
Ming Liao’s book, Applied
Stochastic Processes, was
published by CRC Press,
Taylor & Francis Group in
July 2013.

Jessica McDonald was
a keynote speaker at
the Graduate Student
Combinatorics Conference
at Auburn in April 2014.
She also received the 2013
Dr. Robert K. Butz Annual
Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
Erkan Nane delivered
a plenary talk at the
International Conference
on Applied Analysis and
Mathematical Modeling in
Istanbul in June 2015.

Luke Oeding received
an SEC Faculty Travel
Award in fall 2015. He
also organized SIAM/
AG15, Minisymposium:
Tensor Decomposition:
Ideals meet Applications,
in Daejeon, S. Korea, in
August 2015. Additionally,
he was an invited speaker at
Frames and Algebraic and
Combinatorial Geometry in Bremen, Germany, in
July 2015; an invited speaker at MEGA in Trento,
Italy, in June 2015; an invited speaker at KTH in
Stockholm in June 2015; was Visiting Scholar at
the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
in Berkeley, California, in fall 2014; and was
Visiting Scholar at NIMS in S. Korea in summer
2014. He delivered two lectures on “Tensor
Decomposition” at the Simons Institute for the
Theory of Computing in Berkeley, California, in
November 2014. Oeding received an AMS Travel
Award: International Congress of Mathematicians,
Seoul, S. Korea, in August 2014. In spring 2014,
he joined other researchers from University of
Washington; University of California, Berkeley;
Stanford; ETH Zurich; Microsoft; and Google for a
one-day research discussion on “Algebraic Vision”
at Google’s campus in Seattle, Washington.
The meeting brought together computer
scientists specializing in computer vision with
mathematicians specializing in areas such as
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