Exciting happenings

 

With the fall semester underway, we want to highlight a few of the happenings with the RTG.

• We congratulate Assistant Professor Arunima Bhattacharya who was awarded a new NSF grant DMS-2350290, “Fully Nonlinear Equations and Minimal Submanifolds in Lagrangian Geometry”, which will provide her $234,951 in funding over the next three years!
• We congratulate Professor Yaiza Canzani on her promotion to full professor, which was effect July 1!
• Our former undergraduate researcher, Marleigh Purgar-McDonald, just began her graduate studies at Texas A&M.  We wish Marleigh luck with this new endeavor.
• We similarly wish our former postdoc, Jian Wang, luck with his new position at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques at the Université Paris-Saclay.
• We welcome two new postdocs to the group:  Hanna Kim and Govanni Granados!  We are looking forward to working with you.
• We are proud to announce that Jason Metcalfe was recently awarded a 2024 Faculty Mentoring Award from the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council for faculty to junior faculty mentoring.
• Undergraduate researcher Jonah Boan is amongst the inaugural class of Kennedy Scholars within the Department.  These are possible due to a generous contribution from Dr. Daniel Kennedy in support of undergraduate research.  Jonah will be investingating the isoperimetric problem, a geometric question going back to the ancient Greeks that seeks to identify the shape that maximizes area for a given perimeter. His research focuses on a variant of the problem related to the eigenvalues of the Laplacian, and they will gather numerical data using the finite element method on real projective space.  Congratulations, Jonah!