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The 68th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition will be held on Saturday, December 1st. This is a challenging test of problem solving skill, open to all undergraduates. If you would like to represent Emory, or for more information, please e-mail Professor Grigni at mic@mathcs.emory.edu .

We are pleased to announce that Alessandro Veneziani, previously of the Politecnico di Milano, has joined Emory as Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. Alessandro's research interests are in computational mathematics, with a particular emphasis on simulation and modeling of fluid flows. He is currently working on hemodynamics and mathematical prediction of aneurysms in blood vessels. He recently received the Sacchi-Landriani Internazional Prize for Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, and is a past recipient of a SIAM Outstanding Paper award. He will be a key participant in our Computational Mathematics program and will teach linear algebra, computational fluid dynamics, and numerical simulation. We welcome Alessandro warmly and wish him a long and fruitful career at Emory!

Professor Benedict Gross, Dean and Professor of Mathematics, Harvard College and Member, National Academy of Sciences, will deliver the next lecture in Emory's "Luminaries in Science" distinguished lecture series. Professor Gross is well known for his work in number theory, particularly the Gross-Zagier theorem on L-functions of elliptic curves, which was work with Don Zagier. Professor Gross's lecture will be held in White Hall 207 on Friday, September 14, 2007 from 12:15 to 1:30 pm. All are invited

The department is pleased to announce that Skip Garibaldi and Eldad Haber have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure! Congratulations!

Five undergraduate major students from our department graduated with honors this year:

• Samuel Ballas: Geometrically Finite Fuchsian Groups and the Patterson-Sullivan Measure, advisor: David Borthwick
• Tristan Dennen: Unitary Symmetries in Particle Physics, a First Encounter, advisor: David Borthwick
• Jacob Ensign: Vote Buying in Multi-Dimensional Preference Space, advisor: Victoria Powers
• Sabrina Rainwater: Some Properties of Quasicircles and Symmetric Quasicircles, advisor: Shanshuang Yang
• Solomon Stein
  Generic Polynomials and Cyclic Galois Groups, advisor: Eric Brussel