UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
WITH A SUBSTANTIAL MATHEMATICAL COMPONENT
THE $1000 PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED ANNUALLY
ELIGIBILTY: Any graduate student at USC who is expected to receive Ph.D. degree between May 2023 and August 2024 inclusive is eligible
NOMINATION PROCEDURES: Nominations for the CAMS Prize should include a nominating letter from the students's dissertation committee chair; the nominee's C.V and a statement of 3 pages or less by the nominee describing his or her research in a way that is accessible to non-experts. Reprints, preprints and a further faculty letter of support are not required, but may be included in the supporting material.
SELECTION COMMITTEE: The prize winner will be selected by the Board of Directors of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences.
Susan Friedlander: Professor of Mathematics and Director of CAMS
Yingying Fan: Professor of Data Sciences and Operations
Daniel Lidar: Professor Engineering
Shanghua Teng: Professor of Computer Science
Michael Waterman: Professor of Computational Biology and Mathematics
DEADLINE: Nominations are due Monday, March 27th, 2023 at 4:00 p.m
Please direct nominations to the Director of CAMS and send material to:
Chaunté Williams
Department of Mathematics
KAP 104D, MC 2532
email: cwill@usc.edu
Award
The prize will be announced and awarded in April 2023
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Liyu Chen |
Andrew Lowy Department of Mathematics |
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Linfeng Li |
Chen-Yu Wei Department of Computer Science |
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Trambak Banerjee |
Georgios Styliaris Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Qian Yu Department of Data Sciences and Operations |
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Emre Demirkaya |
Fanhui Xu Department of Mathematics |
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Guher Camliyurt Department of Mathematics |
Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh Department of Computer Science |
Negin Golrezaei Marshall School of Business |
Haifeng Xu Computer Science |
Jie Ren - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fei Wang - Mathematics
Sunav Choudhary - Electrical Engineering Zemin Zheng - Mathematics
Anand Kumar Narayanan - Computer Science Ibrahim Ekren - Mathematics
Sushmita Allam - Biomedical Engineering
Wan-Jung Kuo - Physics Yang Huang - Mathematics
Subhankar Ghosh - Mathematics Yi Gai - Electrical Engineering
Mahyar Salek - Computer Science Vlad Vicol - Mathematics