Professor and Chair Cesar Silva announced this year’s Math/Stats prizes at the annual gala Majors’ Dinner at the Williams Inn Thursday evening, May 10, 2012:
ROSENBURG PRIZE for best senior: Liyang Zhang
GOLDBERG AWARD for best colloquium:
Erik Levinsohn “Dude, Where’s my Convex Hull?”
Niralee Shah “Hearing the Shape of a Drum”
Honorable Mention: Patrick Aquino, Carolyn Geller, David Gold, Stephanie Jensen, Andrew Nguyen, Sidney Luc Robinson, Matthew Staiger, Tarjinder Singh
WYSKIEL AWARD in Teaching: Connor Stern
MORGAN PRIZE in Applied Math: Gregory White
MORGAN PRIZE in Teaching: Patrick Aquino
ROBERT M. KOZELKA AWARD in Statistics: Hannah Hausman
BENEDICT PRIZE for outstanding sophomore:
1st prize: Jared Hallett
2nd prize: Craig Corsi, Yang Lu
WITTE PROBLEM-SOLVING PRIZE: Liyang Zhang, Carlos Dominguez, Jared Hallett (first Williams Putnam Exam team to place in top ten)
COLLOQUIUM ATTENDANCE: Liyang Zhang
Non-Seniors: Tara Deonauth, Christina Knapp
Following tradition, seniors gave advice, for example:
“You don’t need to finish every problem on every problem set; sometimes give up and go to sleep.” —Andrew Lorenzen
“Start your problem sets before Thursday night.” —Norm Walczak
“Go to sleep early, wake up early.” —Laura Dos Reis
“Have fun.” —Andrew Kung
Prof. Silva recognized SMASAB, the student math advisory boar
Hannah Hausman, Stephanie Jensen, Chansoo Lee, Alexander Greaves-Tunnell, Christina Knapp, and Jared Hallett
and thesis students Jiji Ahn, Thomas Crawford, Noah Goldberg, Stephanie Jensen, Brian Li, Connor Stern, Greg White, Li Zhang.
Prof. Silva congratulated Prof. Devadoss on promotion to full professor, Prof. Miller on tenure, and Prof. Morgan on 25 years at Williams.
