[Todos CMAT] Montalban:Headlines & Deadlines from the AMS (fwd)

[Dr. Roberto Markarian - IMERL]

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:03:34 -0400 (EDT)

MONTALBAN RECEIVES AMS CENTENNIAL FELLOWSHIP
Antonio Montalban of the University of Chicago has been awarded the
prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Montalban got his bachelor's degree at the Universidad de la Republica, in
Uruguay, where he grew up. He then got his Ph.D. in 2005 from Cornell
University under the supervision of Richard A. Shore. Montalban was a
Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago for a year and did a
one-year postdoc at the University of Victoria Wellington. Since 2007, he
has been an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research
field is logic, more specifically computability theory. He is interested in
measuring the complexity of proofs and constructions from classical
mathematics. He plans to use the US$75,000 fellowship to visit Berkeley,
among other places, and to work on finding the proof-theoretic strength of
Laver's theorem and other theorems that seem to require proofs of
particularly high complexity. Read the news release at
http://www.ams.org/ams/press/cent-fell-09-10.html .

uAMS SPONSORS EXHIBIT ON MATHEMATICAL MODELING
David Hiebeler, University of Maine, represented the AMS at the 15th annual
Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) Exhibition on Capitol Hill
held March 24, 2009. Prof. Hiebeler's research, funded by the NSF, was
presented to members of Congress, congressional staff, administration
representatives, and members of the scientific community in an exhibit
entitled "Modeling Outbreaks in Agricultural Systems, Human Communities and
Computer Networks." Hiebeler's exhibit used information and computer
simulations to describe his work in the three areas. See photographs of
those who attended and read more about CNSF at 
http://www.ams.org/government/cnsfex09.html .

KATHERINE CROWLEY NAMED AMS CONGRESSIONAL FELLOW FOR 2009-2010