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11th-grader creates new math formulas to win Hawaii State science fair

Kang Ying Liu of St. Andrew's Priory won the top prize at the 53rd Hawai'i State Science and Engineering Fair held April 6 and 7 at the Hawai'i Convention Center. Liu will join 21 other exceedingly bright Hawai'i students at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in San Jose, Calif. Liu won the competition by discovering nine new geometric formulas for describing triangle inequalities. One of the judges at the Hawai'i event, University of Hawai'i math professor J.B. Nation, said he had not seen such an accomplished display of abstract math at the fair in more than 30 years.

People

Prof J.B. Nation Featured in Honolulu Magazine

An article in the February 2010 issue of Honolulu Magazine features UHM Math Professor J.B. Nation.  The article on "Our Geniuses" features four UHM faculty, three of whom are in the College of Natural Sciences. "The Math Whiz" J.B. Nation (Math), ‘The Seaweed Guru.’ Izzie Abbott (Botany), "The Particle Astrophysicist" Peter Gorham (Physics), and JABSOM’s "The Molecular
Biologist" Marla Berry. More.

Conferences

24th Automorphic Forms Workshop

Workshop Website
March 22-26, 2010, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Organizers:
Prof Pavel Guerzhoy and Zachary A. Kent
UH Department of Mathematics
Prof Ken Ono
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Over the last 23 years, the Annual Automorphic Forms Workshop has remained a small and friendly conference. Those attending range from students, new PhD’s, and established researchers. For young researchers, the conference has provided support and encouragement. For accomplished researchers, it offers the opportunity to mentor, and it provides a forum for exchanging ideas.
The workshop has become internationally recognized for both its high-quality research talks and its supportive atmosphere for junior researchers. Participants present cutting-edge research in all areas related to automorphic forms. These include Maass wave forms, elliptic curves, Siegel and Jacobi modular forms, special values of L-functions, random matrices, quadratic forms, applications of modular forms, and many other topics.
In addition to research talks, the workshop has, in the past years, featured panel discussion sessions on the topics of grant writing, mentoring and research partnerships, REUs and outreach, and opportunities for international collaborations. Based on the success of these sessions, we plan to have similar panel sessions this year as well.