MASS Awards and Fellowships
MASS 2007 Award Recipients
- Dory Deines: outstanding performance in geometry course
- Bryan Gillespie: merit fellowship and outstanding performance by the youngest participant
- Sara Jensen: outstanding computer project and best project in geometry course
- Chor Hang Lam: merit fellowship
- Vincent Martinez: best examination in mathematical analysis
- Timur Nezhmetdinov: merit fellowship
- Matthew Pancia: merit fellowship and best project in algebra course
- Noopur Pathak: outstanding project in algebra course
- Robin Tucker-Drob: merit fellowship and best examination in geometry course
MASS 2006 Award Recipients
- Jesse Barbour, St.Edward's University -- Merit fellowship and award for outstanding research project in geometry
- Arthur Friend, Georgia Institue of Technology -- Merite fellowship and award for the best experimental project
- Jessica Jou, PennState -- Merit fellowship and outstanding Penn State participant award
- John Mangual, Princeton University -- Merit fellowship and award for the best research project in geometry
- Carl Sutherland, PennState -- Merit fellowship and award for outstanding research project in analysis
- Bogdan Vioreanu, International University(Bremen) -- Merit fellowship and award for the best research project in algebra
- Daniel Volmar, Berkeley -- Merit fellowship and award for best scholarship
- Tad Whitenight, PennState -- Merit fellowship
MASS 2005 Award Recipients
- Eugene Eyeson, Benedictine University -- Outstanding projects suggested by the student
- Ki Chul Kim, Dartmouth College -- Excellent performance fellowship,
Outstanding performance in Analysis course
- Davide Koslicki, Washington State University -- Excellent performance fellowship,
Best project in Geometry
- Sarah Matz, PennState -- Outstanding project in Analysis
- Karen McCready, The College of New Jersey -- Making most progress overall,
Outstanding performance in the Analysis exam
- Aya Mitani, Pitzer College -- Best presentation in Geometry
- Toan Phan, Northwestern University -- Best overall performance fellowship,
Best project in Algebra,
Best project in Analysis
- Joseph Roberts, PennState -- Excellent performance fellowship
- Frances Worek, PennState -- Outstanding performance in the Analysis exam
MASS 2004 Award Recipients
- Van Cyr, University of Buffalo -- Merit fellowship, outstanding performance in Geometry, outstanding project in Algebra
- James Krysiak, Alfred University -- Best project in Geometry
- Jenna Hammang, Valparaiso University -- Merit fellowship
- Jeremy Heffner, PennState University -- Outstanding project in Algebra
- Zachary McCoy, Yale University -- Outstanding performance in Geometry
- A. Naber -- Merit fellowship, best project in Analysis, best performance in Analysis
MASS 2003 Award Recipients
- Nathan Collins, University of Oregon -- Merit Fellowship
- Jeffrey Gin, Central Michigan University -- Most innovative project in Analysis
- Russel Halper, University of CA, Santa Barbara -- Excellent performance in Analysis
- Marc Horn, Penn State University -- Best effort Award
- David Jordan, University of Oregon, Clark Honors College -- Merit Fellowship
- John Skukalek, Grand Valley State University -- Merit Fellowship
- Vivek Srikrishnan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- Merit Fellowship
- Rebecca Swanson, Dakota Wesleyan University -- Merit Fellowship
- Michael Willis, Penn State University -- Nittany Lion Award
MASS 2002 Award Recipients
- Patrick Barrow, North Carolina State University
- Mark Branson, University of Oklahoma
- Justin Fitzpatrick, Penn State University
- Stacey Hubbell, Penn State University
- Brady McCary, Texas A&M University
- Michael Rowell, University of San Diego
MASS 2001 Award Recipients
- Sharon Chuba, Penn State University
- Patrick Rault, College of William and Mary
- Yakov Shapiro, Boston University
- Braden Soper, UCLA
MASS 2000 Award Recipients
- Benjamin Chan, University of Rochester
- Rachel Lash, Alfred University
- Carmen Lefever, The College of New Jersey
- Vakhid Masagutov, New Mexico State University
- Alice Medvedev, University of California Institute of Technology
Awards received by MASS participants outside of MASS
- Dmitry Vaintrob, (REU 2004) was the winner of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology (prize of $100,000), he won the third place in the Intel Science Talent Search (prize of $50,000) and he received the first-place AMS Menger award (prize of $1,000). Congratulations, Mitka!
- Eric Larson, REU 2007 participant, was a member of the USA team at the 48th International Mathematical Olympiad, July 2007, Hanoi, Veitnam, and was awarded a silver medal. Congratulations, Eric!
- Beth Morgan, MASS 2002 participant, is among the first Newton Fellows of the Math for America Program established by Dr. James Simons of Renaissance Technoology Crop. Congratulations, Beth! See the article in DAILY NEWS.
- Rebecca Swanson has won an award at the Undergraduate Poster Session at the Phoenix AMS Conference for her poster
Polygonal Ponderings
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- Yakov Shapiro (Boston University, MASS 2001) was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
- Elizabeth Thoren, a MASS 2001 participant, has been chosen as an honorable mention in the competition for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
- Patrick Rault (College of William and Mary, REU and MASS 2001) has been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater scholarship.
- Sharon Chuba (Penn State, REU and MASS 2001) is a winner of the Undergraduate Student Poster Session in San Diego, January 2002.
- James Kelley (MASS 1998), currently a mathematics graduate student at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Jaclyn (Kohles) Anderson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, MASS 1998) is a winner of the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman, 2001.
- Benjamin Chan (University of Rochester, REU and MASS 2000) is a winner of the Undergraduate Student Poster Session in New Orleans, January 2001. His poster was among three very highly ranked posters.
- Poster Title:
Estimation of the Period of a Simple Continued Fraction
Advisors: Robert Vaughan, Penn State and Misha Guysinsky, Tufts University
- James Kelley (MASS 1998) ranked #59 in the 1999 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and won an Honorable Mention among individuals.
- Jaclyn Kohles received an honorable mention in the Alice T. Schafer Prize competition for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman, 2000.
- Noah Salvaterra, Brian Wickman, and Jayadev Athreya (MASS 1999) are winners of the Undergraduate Student Poster Session in Washington D.C., January 2000.
- Noah Salvaterra and Brian Wickman (REU and MASS 1999)
The Growth of Generalized Diagonals in a Polygonal Billiard
Advisors: Anatole Katok, Penn State and Misha Guysinsky, Tufts University
- Jayadev Athreya (MASS 1999) and Lukasz M. Fidkowski
Number Theoretic Balls in Boxes
Advisor: Anant Godbole, Michigan State University