Professor Martyn Dixon gave a talk to the Ischia Group Theory Conference on May 21, 2020 to the Ischia Online Group Theory Conference (GOThIC). This presentation can be viewed at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1foe_6nJzmU4BkxxINm-Ov8U-kJlg-MMe/view
David Cruz-Uribe’s Talk to Universidad National del Litoral
David Cruz-Uribe, OFS, presented his research entitled “Norm inequalities for linear and multilinear singular integrals on weighted and variable exponent Hardy spaces” to the Seminario del IMAL “Carlos Segovia Fernández”, CONICET, Universidad National del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina This talk is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff-cLnsB7LA&t=5s
Math Department Raises Money for West Alabama Food Bank
Our Chair, David Cruz-Uribe, was lamenting his greying beard and was threatening to dye it. The department called his bluff and offered to raise money for a local charity if they could pick the color. He accepted the challenge and the department promptly raised over $500 for the West Alabama Foodbank. The winning color was
Video Messages to Graduating Seniors and Honors Day Award winners
Since COVID-19 prevented us from holding a Honors Day reception and a commencement ceremony, Dr. Cruz-Uribe created the videos below to speak to our students. Undergraduate Awards: https://vimeo.com/414761564/310e89b791 Graduate Awards: https://vimeo.com/414762604/02e48bd5d9 Class of 2020: https://vimeo.com/414764562/4970e370e0
Promotion News
Provost Kevin Whitaker announced today the follow promotions which will take effect during the Fall 2020 semester. Congratulations go out to Wei Zhu who was promoted to Full Professor, Shibin Dai who was granted tenure and Yuhui Chen and Tim Ferguson for their promotions to Associate Professor.
Jeremy Cummings Wins the 2020 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Jeremy Cummings was selected as a recipient of the 2020 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for his research entitled “Weighted norm inequalities for the maximal operator on variable Lebesgue spaces over spaces of homogeneous type”. Jeremy was nominated for this award by Dr. David Cruz-Uribe. He will be honored at a luncheon later this month.
Involvement Builds Sharniece Holland’s Success
Sharniece Holland is a proven leader who demonstrates driven tenacity toward her goals – academically and professionally. Now a professor at Washington University, she earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at The University of Alabama.
Mathematics Strives to Be a Leader in Diversity and Inclusion
The Department of Mathematics was awarded the 2019 Departmental Diversity Award. Dr. David Cruz-Uribe’s goal is to maintain this diverse atmosphere, eventually creating a graduate program that is made up of 50 percent women and 20 to 25 percent underrepresented minorities.
Department of Mathematics Wins Diversity Award
The Department of Mathematics celebrated an increased number of minority students, welcoming a class of graduate students that included four women and eight black students, well above the national average.
Former graduate student Veny Liu represents UA in Hawaii
2016 Math PhD graduate Veny Liu is now an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu. Dr. Liu recently attended the largest SACNAS ever (5000+ attendees) in Honolulu.