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IceCTF 2016 Security Competition
$news$	Published Date: 2016-08-24 The Math&CS department is one of the sponsors of the IceCTF 2016 security competitions. It has become among the most popular online capture-the-flag contests in information security, with more than 2700 registered users solving a smorgasbord of 55+ cryptography, web vulnerabilities, reverse engineering, binary exploitation and other challenges. "This is a platform where anyone can pick up new security skills, tools and ideas, whether they are newcomers or advanced security professionals." says Prof. Vigfusson, one of the organizers of IceCTF. "It is truly exciting to see the competition grow every year, and many of the participants are telling us that they are having a great time." The competition runs from August 12-26 and is open for anyone at http://www.icec.tf/ The scoreboard is here.

IceCTF 2016 Security Competition

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Published Date: 2016-08-24
The Math&CS department is one of the sponsors of the IceCTF 2016 security competitions. It has become among the most popular online capture-the-flag contests in information security, with more than 2700 registered users solving a smorgasbord of 55+ cryptography, web vulnerabilities, reverse engineering, binary exploitation and other challenges. "This is a platform where anyone can pick up new security skills, tools and ideas, whether they are newcomers or advanced security professionals." says Prof. Vigfusson, one of the organizers of IceCTF. "It is truly exciting to see the competition grow every year, and many of the participants are telling us that they are having a great time." The competition runs from August 12-26 and is open for anyone at http://www.icec.tf/ The scoreboard is here.

Ken Ono Profiled in Der Spiegel
$news$	Published Date: 2016-07-11 Ken Ono is profiled in the July 8th issue of the popular German magazine Der Spiegel. The interview involves his mathematics, his recently published autobiography with science writer Amir Aczel, and his work as a movie producer. You can read the story here.

AIMS Laboratory Receives Best Paper Recognition
Published Date: 2016-06-29 A research paper by recent PhD graduate Xiaofeng Xu, advised by Professor Li Xiong and co-advised by Dr. Vaidy Sunderam, received the Best Paper Award at the 17th IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference in Porto, Portugal in June 2016. Dr. Xu is now at Facebook; Dr. Xiong directs Emory's Assured Information Management and Sharing (AIMS) laboratory. A preprint can be viewed here.

AIMS Laboratory Receives Best Paper Recognition

Published Date: 2016-06-29
A research paper by recent PhD graduate Xiaofeng Xu, advised by Professor Li Xiong and co-advised by Dr. Vaidy Sunderam, received the Best Paper Award at the 17th IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference in Porto, Portugal in June 2016. Dr. Xu is now at Facebook; Dr. Xiong directs Emory's Assured Information Management and Sharing (AIMS) laboratory. A preprint can be viewed here.

Vigfusson and Team win Best Student Paper Award
Published Date: 2016-06-14 An Emory project led by Dr. Ymir Vigfusson, including students Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, Petur Ragnarsson, and Juncheng Yang, in collaboration with Mahesh Balakrishnan (Yale) received the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM SYSTOR 2016 Conference in Haifa, Israel. Sigurbjarnarson is now at UDub and Ragnarsson at Reykjavik. The paper can be found here.

Ken Ono Profiled in Scientific American
Published Date: 2016-06-06 Emory number theorist Ken Ono has been profiled in Scientific American. Here is a link to the story which discusses his research, his recent memoir “My Search for Ramanujan” (which can be found on Amazon), and his role as the Associate Producer for the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity” which stars Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.

Initiative aims to find undiscovered mathematicians
$news$	Published Date: 2016-05-25 The Templeton World Charity Foundation awarded $100,000 to Emory mathematician Ken Ono to support a program called "The Spirit of Ramanujan Math Talent Initiative,” which aims to find undiscovered mathematicians around the world and match them with advancement opportunities in the field. Read more at Emory's eScience Commons.

Emory professors win National Science Foundation awards for young faculty
Published Date: 2016-05-25 Three Emory professors are among the 160 young trailblazers recently honored by the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER). The five-year grants support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar and the integration of education and research. For Emory College of Arts and Sciences, mathematician David Zureick-Brown and computer scientist Ymir Vigfusson are the first faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to win the prestigious award. Read more here.

Emory professors win National Science Foundation awards for young faculty

Published Date: 2016-05-25
Three Emory professors are among the 160 young trailblazers recently honored by the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER). The five-year grants support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar and the integration of education and research. For Emory College of Arts and Sciences, mathematician David Zureick-Brown and computer scientist Ymir Vigfusson are the first faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to win the prestigious award. Read more here.

Congratulations Class of 2016!
$news$	Published Date: 2016-05-12 The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science would like to congratulate our BA, BS, Minor, MS, and PhD students the best in their future endeavors! Our graduates were congratulated in the Commencement Magazine.

Professor James Nagy is elected a 2016 SIAM Fellow
$news$	Published Date: 2016-05-01 The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is delighted to announce that James Nagy, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, has been elected a 2016 Fellow by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SIAM Fellows are recognized by their peers for their contributions to SIAM-represented disciplines. Dr. Nagy has been recognized for his contributions to the computational science of image reconstruction. In addition to this recognition, Dr. Nagy is a SIAM book and journal author and has recently served as the Vice Chair for the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra. The full list of 2016 SIAM Fellows and a brief synopsis of their research can be found here.

Professor James Nagy is elected a 2016 SIAM Fellow

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Published Date: 2016-05-01
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is delighted to announce that James Nagy, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, has been elected a 2016 Fellow by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SIAM Fellows are recognized by their peers for their contributions to SIAM-represented disciplines. Dr. Nagy has been recognized for his contributions to the computational science of image reconstruction. In addition to this recognition, Dr. Nagy is a SIAM book and journal author and has recently served as the Vice Chair for the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.

The full list of 2016 SIAM Fellows and a brief synopsis of their research can be found here.

Celebrating math, miracles and a movie
$news$	Published Date: 2016-04-13 Dr. Ken Ono was recently featured in the Emory eScienceCommons Report. The article profiles the advanced screening of "The Man Who Knew Infinity." Read more about it here.