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NSF showcases Veneziani's research
Published Date: 2015-08-27 Alessandro Veneziani explains how riblets on the surface of shark skin improve water penetration for breaking turbulent vortexes, and the use of this knowledge in designing Olympic swimsuits . Watch the video for details!

Veneziani's paper selected for 2014 "Best of Computing" List"
Published Date: 2015-08-27 A pioneering paper on a novel combination of FEM and spectral approaches by Alessandro Veneziani (Emory) and his collaborator Simona Perrotto (Politecnico Milano) has been selected by ACM for its 19th Annual Best of Computing -- Notable Books and Articles list. Read more about it here. Congratulations!

Math shines with the stars in 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'
Published Date: 2015-08-07 Call it a math bromance. Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy’s collaboration with the obscure, self-taught Indian Srinivasa Ramanujan – during the height of British colonialism – changed math and science forever. The story is finally going mainstream through a major motion picture, “The Man Who Knew Infinity," starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons. Read more about it here.

Math shines with the stars in 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'

Published Date: 2015-08-07
Call it a math bromance. Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy’s collaboration with the obscure, self-taught Indian Srinivasa Ramanujan – during the height of British colonialism – changed math and science forever. The story is finally going mainstream through a major motion picture, “The Man Who Knew Infinity," starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.

Read more about it here.

Math shines with the stars in 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'
Published Date: 2015-08-03 Call it a math bromance. Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy’s collaboration with the obscure, self-taught Indian Srinivasa Ramanujan – during the height of British colonialism – changed math and science forever. The story is finally going mainstream through a major motion picture, “The Man Who Knew Infinity," starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons. Read more about it here.

Math shines with the stars in 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'

Published Date: 2015-08-03
Call it a math bromance. Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy’s collaboration with the obscure, self-taught Indian Srinivasa Ramanujan – during the height of British colonialism – changed math and science forever. The story is finally going mainstream through a major motion picture, “The Man Who Knew Infinity," starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.

Read more about it here.

Yahoo! FREP awarded to Dr. Eugene Agichtein
$news$	Published Date: 2015-07-28 In 2015, 24 recipients from 22 universities were selected based on their areas of science and interest to Yahoo! The Department of Mathematics is proud to announce that Dr. Eugene Agichtein was awarded a research gift and the opportunity to collaborate directly with distinguished Yahoo! scientists and visit Yahoo! Labs. Yahoo!’s Faculty Research and Engagement Program is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. Over the course of the next year and beyond, FREP award recipients and Yahoo Labs scientists will work closely to further research in their mutual areas of interest. For a closer look at this years recipients, please visit the Yahoolabs research page.

Yahoo! FREP awarded to Dr. Eugene Agichtein

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Published Date: 2015-07-28
In 2015, 24 recipients from 22 universities were selected based on their areas of science and interest to Yahoo! The Department of Mathematics is proud to announce that Dr. Eugene Agichtein was awarded a research gift and the opportunity to collaborate directly with distinguished Yahoo! scientists and visit Yahoo! Labs.

Yahoo!’s Faculty Research and Engagement Program is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. Over the course of the next year and beyond, FREP award recipients and Yahoo Labs scientists will work closely to further research in their mutual areas of interest.

For a closer look at this years recipients, please visit the Yahoolabs research page.

Umbral Moonshine appears on “The Big Bang Theory”
$news$	Published Date: 2015-05-14 The Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, proved by Emory mathematician Ken Ono together with his student Michael Griffin and John Duncan, made a cameo appearance on the wildly popular TV show “The Big Bang Theory”. Read about it here.

Emory Number Theorists Prove Umbral Moonshine Conjecture
$news$	Published Date: 2015-04-07 Emory number theorists Ken Ono and his PhD student Michael Griffin have proved the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture with John Duncan, a mathematical physicist at Case Western Reserve University. The conjecture has emerged as a central problem at the interface of mathematics and string theory. Here is an excellent exposition of their work and the origin of the conjecture in Scientific American. Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-chase-moonshine-s-shadow/.

Emory Number Theorists Prove Umbral Moonshine Conjecture

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Published Date: 2015-04-07
Emory number theorists Ken Ono and his PhD student Michael Griffin have proved the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture with John Duncan, a mathematical physicist at Case Western Reserve University. The conjecture has emerged as a central problem at the interface of mathematics and string theory. Here is an excellent exposition of their work and the origin of the conjecture in Scientific American.

Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-chase-moonshine-s-shadow/.

Noam Kantor has been awarded a Goldwater scholarship
$news$	Published Date: 2015-04-02 Noam Kantor, a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar at Emory University, has been named one of 260 nationwide recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship was initiated in 1986 to honor U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, with purpose to "alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians and engineers." As a sophomore, Noam is taking graduate mathematics courses and independent studies, and in addition to ongoing research at Emory, Noam will attend the WADE number theory REU in Wake Forest this summer and plans to participate in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program before pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. Press release: http://https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/yyschrel.php. List of recipients: https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/sch-2015.php.

Noam Kantor has been awarded a Goldwater scholarship

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Published Date: 2015-04-02
Noam Kantor, a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar at Emory University, has been named one of 260 nationwide recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship was initiated in 1986 to honor U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, with purpose to "alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians and engineers." As a sophomore, Noam is taking graduate mathematics courses and independent studies, and in addition to ongoing research at Emory, Noam will attend the WADE number theory REU in Wake Forest this summer and plans to participate in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program before pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics.

Press release: http://https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/yyschrel.php.
List of recipients: https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/sch-2015.php.

Olivia Beckwith wins a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship
$news$	Published Date: 2015-04-01 Emory Number Theory PhD student Olivia Beckwith has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. These fellowships support outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research in science and engineering. Olivia has been recognized for her potential for significant achievements in science and engineering. She has already published 5 research papers, and she is nearly finished with her 6th paper (a joint project with postdoc Michael Mertens). Olivia is the 6th Emory Number Theory PhD student to receive an NSF Graduate Fellowship in the last 5 years.

Olivia Beckwith wins a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship

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Published Date: 2015-04-01
Emory Number Theory PhD student Olivia Beckwith has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. These fellowships support outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research in science and engineering. Olivia has been recognized for her potential for significant achievements in science and engineering. She has already published 5 research papers, and she is nearly finished with her 6th paper (a joint project with postdoc Michael Mertens). Olivia is the 6th Emory Number Theory PhD student to receive an NSF Graduate Fellowship in the last 5 years.

North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad hosted by Emory University
Published Date: 2015-02-06 On Jan 29, 2015, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Program in Linguistics and hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is a contest in which high school students solve problems in computational linguistics. Winners of the competition can participate in an invitational round, which can ultimately lead to participation in an international competition. This year Emory joined other top universities (52 in all) in hosting the event, including Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Penn, and Yale. Emory was the only school in the southeast to serve as a host. Invitations were sent to over 70 high school academic bowl coaches in Georgia, ultimately yielding 23 participants, and putting Emory in the top third of schools in the nation in terms of number of participants. The event was held in the Winship Ballroom, and participants received a mug (with an Emory logo), a campus tour, and lunch at Cox Hall. Emory undergraduate students from Computer Science and Linguistics Science helped to run the event. The main organizers of the event was Jinho Choi from Computer Science and Phillip Wolff from Linguistics.

North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad hosted by Emory University

Published Date: 2015-02-06
On Jan 29, 2015, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Program in Linguistics and hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is a contest in which high school students solve problems in computational linguistics. Winners of the competition can participate in an invitational round, which can ultimately lead to participation in an international competition. This year Emory joined other top universities (52 in all) in hosting the event, including Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Penn, and Yale. Emory was the only school in the southeast to serve as a host. Invitations were sent to over 70 high school academic bowl coaches in Georgia, ultimately yielding 23 participants, and putting Emory in the top third of schools in the nation in terms of number of participants. The event was held in the Winship Ballroom, and participants received a mug (with an Emory logo), a campus tour, and lunch at Cox Hall. Emory undergraduate students from Computer Science and Linguistics Science helped to run the event. The main organizers of the event was Jinho Choi from Computer Science and Phillip Wolff from Linguistics.