Faculty news.
Federico Ardila - NSF Research Grant, 2008-2010. Combinatorics in geometry.
Federico Ardila - SFSU Presidential Award, 2009.
Javier Arsuaga - NIH Research Grant, 2007-2010. Modeling of DNA repair.
Javier Arsuaga and Mariel Vazquez - NIH Research Grant, 2008-2013. Multiscale analysis of CGH arrays from breast cancer patients using computational algebraic topology.
Javier Arsuaga and Mariel Vazquez - NSF Research Grant, 2009-2013. Topological characterization of DNA organization in bacteriophages.
Matthias Beck - NSF Research Grant, 2008-2011. Computations in Ehrhart theory.
Matthias Beck - NSF GK-12 Grant, 2009-2014. Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics.
Yitwah Cheung - NSF Research Grant, 2007-2010. Interactions between number theory and ergodic theory.
Arek Goetz, Eric Hsu - CSU Transforming Course Design Grant, 2007-2008. Calculus in the new millenium.
Joseph Gubeladze - NSF Research Grant, 2006-2009. Convex point configurations in algebraic combinatorics.
Eric Hsu - NSF CAREER Award, 2004-2009. Math teachers in online and live communities.
Eric Hsu, Judy Kysh, Diane Resek - NSF Math Science Partnership, 2003-2009. Revitalizing algebra.
Shidong Li - NSF Research Grant, 2007-2010. Development of frame extensions and applications.
Alex Schuster - NSF Research Grant, 2006-2009. Sampling and interpolation on Riemann surfaces and in several complex variables.
Mariel Vazquez - NIH Research Grant, 2007-2010. Simulation of unknotting by Type II topoisomerases.
Joseph Gubeladze - Plenary Speaker, International FPSAC Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, 2010.
Student news.
David Bangor - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Laura Escobar - Provost Scholarship 2009/2010.
Addie Evans - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Mela Hardin - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Benjamin Iriarte - Provost Scholarship 2009/2010.
Andrew Herrmann - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Nguyen Le - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Dido Salazar-Torres - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Tim Wertz - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Jon Yaggie - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
Ralf Youtz - Creating Momentum through Communicating Mathematics Fellow 2009.
The following 2009 alumni are continuing on to Ph.D. programs:
Jameson Cahill - University of Missouri
Fang-I Chu - UC Santa Barbara
Daniel Dewoskin - University of Michigan
Kristen Freeman - UC Davis
Elizabeth Gross - University of Illinois, Chicago
Lothar Narins - Berlin Mathematical School
Chris O' Neill - Duke University
Amanda Ruiz - Binghamton University
Department news.
The mathematics department at San Francisco State University will host the following events:
- The Pamela Fong symposium, featuring De Witt Sumners, on March 18-19, 2009. More information here.
- The 1st San Francisco International Meeting on DNA Topology on April 22-26, 2009. More information here.
- 2009 Spring Western Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society on April 25-26, 2009. More information here.
- FPSAC 2010, the 22nd Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, in July, 2010.
