On April 23rd, graduate student William DeMeo was presented with the Sarah Martin Award in Mathematics by the Honolulu chapter of the ARCS Foundation. DeMeo is is chiseling away at a 50-year-old problem concerning finite algebras through investigation of lattices that will require the help of supercomputing resources on Maui. He previously applied mathematics theory to music.
To Monique Chyba, math is a beautiful thing. So much, in fact, that the UH Mānoa mathematics associate professor has organized events such as “An Afternoon of Beautiful Mathematics” and “Be a Scientist Tonight” at the Campus Center and local K-12 schools for the past two years.
The h-index or Hirsch number of a scholar is at least n if the scholar has n publications that have been cited in at least n many other papers. With respect to the Mathematical Reviews database, examples include 11 for our Prof. Hugh M. Hilden (left), 14 for Princeton’s Andrew Wiles, and a very high 36 for Paul Erdös.
UH Manoa mathematics and engineering students, faculty and staff, in collaboration with the Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship program and SFSU, will team up on Friday and Saturday, February 25-26, with Moloka‘i High and Aka‘ula Middle School to teach math to K-12 students and their families.