Math Department Information

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Mathematics Department Information

Faculty data

Awards

J.B. Nation: 2003 Regents Medal for Excellence in Research
Ralph Freese: 2000 Regents Medal for Excellence in Research
George Csordas: 1985 Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching
Joel Weiner: 1995 Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching
David Bleecker: George P'olya Award for mathematical exposition from the Mathematical Association of America
Thomas Ramsey: 1989 Excellence in Writing Intensive Instruction, UH Manoa

Major current extramural funding

Erik Guenter, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, 2004-2009
Monique Chyba, NSF grant, 2003-2006, with the Autonomous Systems Laboratory Chyba
J.B. Nation, NSF CSEMS Scholarship grant, $396,000 from 2004-2008
(scholarships in computer science, engineering and mathematics)
Leslie Wilson, NSF UBM grant, $298,922 from 2006-2010
(undergraduate research experiences in mathematical biology)

National Recognition

The American Mathematical Society ranks our program among the 56 Group 2 departments, behind the 25 public and 23 private Group 1 departments. See AMS ranking.

Degrees

Assessment

System-wide mathematics initiatives
David Stegenga is Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Honolulu Zoo Society and maintains their website.
Tom Craven is on the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Council of Teachers of Mathematics and maintains their website.
Tom Ramsey: Senate Executive Committee of the Manoa Faculty Senate. Faculty Senate ad-hoc committee on UARC.
Karl Dovermann heads Talent Development Hawaii Project which provides learning opportunities for talented high school students.
Ron Brown: Council on Program Reviews, Chancellor's Committee on the Liberal Arts.
Tom Hoover: Arts and Sciences SEC, Symbolic Reasoning Committee.
Marvin Ortel produced a film series on Noam Chomsky for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, shown in summer 2003.
David Ross: Chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Policy and Planning. Faculty Senate ad-hoc committee on UARC.
Wayne Smith: Natural Sciences Curriculum Committee.
Joel Weiner: Foundations Board, Teachers Education Committee--Mathematics
Les Wilson: Manoa Writing Committee, A&S Program and Curriculum Committee.
Monique Chyba: Robo Nemo, an under water technology program for young students.
William Lampe: Manoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee.

2003

Chris Allday: Oberwolfach, Germany
Monique Chyba: ENSEEIHT seminar, France
George Csordas: Hong Kong Univ.; Limoges, France (BDD); Clermont, France; Seville, Spain, (RSME--AMS); Toronto, Canada (ISAAC)
Karl Dovermann: University of Michigan
George Wilkens: AMS meeting, Boulder, CO
Leslie Wilson: Marseilles, France; Sapporo, Japan

2004

Ed Bertram: Ischia, Italy
Ralph Freese: ICFCA, Sydney, Australia
Erik Guentner: CIRM, Luminy, France; AMS meeting, Athens, OH; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Vanderbilt University; Dartmouth College
David Ross: AMS meeting, Phoenix, AZ; International Conference M.ARI.AN., Pisa, Italy; Aveiro, Portugal
Wayne Smith: Dublin, Ireland
Leslie Wilson: AMS meeting, Boston; Real Algebraic; Geometry meeting, Kazimirz, Poland; Mount Holyoke College

2005

2006