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The 10th Southeast Geometry Seminar will be held at Emory on Wednesday, December 13th. For more information, see the conference website.

The First ACES Workshop will be held at Emory over the weekend. This workshop is for graduate students in mathematics and brings together SIAM student chapters from Auburn, Clemson, Emory, and South Carolina. More information is available on the conference webpage.

Professor James Nagy's book, "Deblurring Images: Matrices, Spectra, and Filtering" was published by SIAM Press. Abstract: When we use a camera, we want the recorded image to be a faithful representation of the scene that we see, but every image is more or less blurry. In image deblurring, the goal is to recover the original, sharp image by using a mathematical model of the blurring process. The book describes the deblurring algorithms and techniques collectively known as spectral filtering methods, in which the singular value decomposition -- or a similar decomposition with spectral properties -- is used to introduce the necessary regularization or filtering in the reconstructed image. The concise MATLAB implementations described in the book provide a template of techniques that can be used to restore blurred images from many applications. More information can be found here and here.

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics R. Parimala was awarded the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal for 2006. This prize is given once every three years to an eminent scientist whose work has had an impact in mathematics for a considerable length of time. From the citation: The prize was awarded to Prof. Parimala "for her outstanding contributions to Galois cohomology of semi-simple algebraic groups over fields of dimension less than or equal to 2, in particular for settling a conjecture of Serre for classical groups as well as for her contributions to the study of the u-invariant."

Emory is ranked 56th amongst universities worldwide, up from 141st in 2005, according to the rankings by the Times Higher Education Supplement. Emory is ranked 8th in the world for staff-to-student ratio. More information here