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The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is pleased to announce the 15th annual Evans/Hall Lecture and Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 28 from 4-5pm in E208, Mathematics and Science Center, with Reception following. Our speaker this year will be Jeff Brock of Brown University.

The Evans/Hall Lecture honors graduate and undergraduate students in the department and recognizes outstanding student accomplishments via the Trevor Evans Award, Deborah Jackson Award, Marshall Hall Award, and Departmental Awards.

The Department of Mathematics & Computer Science would like to congratulate Yandong Liu and Qi Guo for being chosen as two of twenty PhD students who have been selected to be part of Yahoo!'s Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) program. Supporting the academic community is a top priority at Yahoo!. Yahoo! created the KSC Program to support a limited number of outstanding PhD students who they believe are doing research in very important and challenging areas. The Program provides each student with $5,000 of unrestricted funds for the support of their research activities (e.g., conference fees and travel, lab materials, professional society membership dues, etc.).

As part of this program, students also receives an exclusive invitation to a unique workshop (most likely to be held in August in Sunnyvale, California), where they will focus on novel disciplines and important technical challenges for the Internet research community, slanted specifically for graduate students whose innovative work is just emerging.

Both students began their studies in 2007 and are members of the IR lab and are advised by Professor Eugene Agichtein .

Ying Wai (Daniel) Fan won the 2009 Emerson Center Lectureship Best Poster Awad for his poster entitled, Image Deblurring with Synthetic Boundary Conditions. Information regarding the symposium can be found at, http://www.emerson.emory.edu/conferences/symposium.html.

2009 Georgia Scientific Computing (GSC) Symposium February 21, 2009 Emory University

Organizers
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James Nagy
Emory University
nagy@mathcs.emory.edu
Haomin Zhou
Georgia Institute of Technology
hmzhou@math.gatech.edu

Format of the Symposium
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The symposium will include five invited talks, a poster session, and substantial time for interaction among the participants. The invited speakers include:

George Biros, Georgia Institute of Technology
Luca Dieci, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia
Michael Stewart, Georgia State University
Alessandro Veneziani, Emory University

To register for the 2009 GSC Symposium, send email to Jim Nagy, nagy@mathcs.emory.edu. There is no registration fee.

Further information, including a preliminary program and directions, can be found here.

American Mathematics Competitions 10B and 12B for high school students will be held at Emory on Wednesday, February 25, 2009. These are the entry-level competitions that lead to the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) which in turn leads to the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) documented in the movie "Hard Problems" by George Csicsery.

Pre-registration and a nominal fee are required. Please e-mail Paul Wrayno (pwrayno@emory.edu) to register.

This brochure gives more information about the competition, including sample questions. There is also a Wikipedia article about the competitions.