2009-2010

Dr. Nathan Jones joins the faculty as an assistant professor in Fall 2009. Dr. Jones, who obtained his Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 2005, works on Number Theory

The Twenty-third Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing will be held at the University of Mississippi in May 2010. Professor Talmage James Reid will be the main organizer

2008-2009

Four students defended their PhD dissertations, two defended their MS theses, and two more defended their senior theses in Spring of 2009

Professor Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota gave the 2009 Dalrymple Lecture on Thursday, April 2 (abstract)

Our graduate student Sam Watson has been awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Ole Miss Undergraduate Mathematics Team (Cameron Byrum, Catherine Putnam, George Rochardson, and Matt Stephenson) ranked 3rd at the 2009 LA/MS MAA meeting mathematics competition

Catherine Putnam won the 2nd prize on the undergraduate paper competition at the 2009 LA/MS MAA meeting

Three new faculty Micah B. Milinovich, Erwin Miña-Díaz, and Sandra Spiroff joined the Department in 2008

Dang obtained an NSF REU grant (DMS-0809018-supplemental project of her NSF grant DMS-0707074 as a Co-PI with H. Peng)