Undergraduate Students 2023-24
Chair’s Prize Award
Helena Holland
Nicholas White
Special Awards
Tan Phan, 1st Place in the New Venture Competition
Dennis Startsev, Received author status for the soon to be published “Immune Digital Twin Blueprint: A Comprehensive Simulatable Model of the Human Immune System” by Rada Amin*, Sara Sadat Aghamiri, Bhanwar Lal Puniya, Lauren Mayo, Dennis Startsev, Kashish Poore, Resa Helikar and Tomas Helikar*
Chancellor's Scholars (4.0 GPA in all courses)
Spring 2024: Helena Holland, Tan Phan, and Nicholas White
Math Majors Graduated with Highest Distinction – Spring 2024 (Anticipated)
Bryce Herrington, Helena Holland, and Nicholas White
Math Majors Graduated with High Distinction – Spring 2024 (Anticipated)
Charles Fulks, Abigail Hanson, Angeline Luther, Alexander Miller, Layla Nguyen, Tan Phan, Abraham Schaecher, and Elizabeth Weber
Math Majors Graduated with Distinction – Spring 2024 (Anticipated)
Shaunak Datta, Layla Montemayor, Shivani Mudhelli, Margaret Scott, and Ethan Yaroch
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Spring 2024 (Anticipated)
Shaunak Datta, Abigail Hanson, Bryce Herrington, Helena Holland, Angeline Luther, Alexander Miller, Layla Montemayor, Shivani Mudhelli, Tan Phan, Margaret Scott, Elizabeth Weber, Nicholas White, Ethan Yaroch
Math Majors Graduated in Spring 2024 (Anticipated)
Zach Beaver, Zachary Bravo, Morgan Brockner, Eric Corrado, Shaunak Datta, Sophia Duncan, Charlie Fulks, Abigail Hanson, Hugo Hausman, James He, Bryce Herrington, Helena Holland, Joshua Irby, Harrison Kerns, Angeline Luther, William Marshall, Alexander Miller, Layla Montemayor, Shivani Mudhelli, Layla Nguyen, Tan Phan, Justin Powers, Lake Reikofski, David Ryckman, Abraham Schaecher, Samantha Schur, Margaret Scott, Augustus Shald, Juan Silva, Dennis Startsev, Tatiana Startseva, Elizabeth Weber, Nicholas White, Ethan Yaroch, and Taylor Ziepke
Math Majors Graduated with High Distinction – Fall 2023
Evan Fulton
Math Majors Graduated with Distinction – Fall 2023
Xiangyuan Su
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Fall 2024
Evan Fulton
Math Majors Graduated in Fall 2023
Nataliya Brana, Kuan Ruei Chiang, Joel Eckloff, Evan Fulton, Anna Gullett, Nathan Hanzy, Courtney Higginbotham, Jiahua Jia, Mark Pham, Sean Snider, Xiangyuan Su, and Yuanshu Wang
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Summer 2023
Cole Johnson
Math Majors Graduated in Summer 2023
Cole Johnson, Ann Le, Jessica Osterhaus, and Michael Young
Senior Honors and Distinction Theses (directed by)
Evan Fulton, Fall 2023 (Timothy Gay, Physics & Shireen Adenwalla, Physics)
Abigail Hanson, Spring 2024 (Sean Trundle, History & Gerald Steinacher, History)
Bryce Herrington, Spring 2024 (Robert Streubel, Physics & Peter Dowben, Physics)
Helena Holland, Spring 2024 (Tyler White, Political Science & Alexandra Seceleanu, Math)
Layla Montemayor, Spring 2024 (Petronela Radu, Math & Mikil Foss, Math)
Nicholas White, Spring 2024 (Mikil Foss, Math & Adam Larios, Math)
Ethan Yaroch, Spring 2024 (Ross Miller, Political Science & Daniel Tannenbaum, Economics)
UCARE Awards and Undergraduate Research/Independent Study Participation (directed by)
Dakota Andrews, 2023-24 (David Lieberman & Jack Jeffries)
Helena Holland, Thesis 2023-24 (Tyler White, Political Science & Alexandra Seceleanu)
Ann Le, Summer 2023 (Wendy Smith)
Layla Montemayor, Thesis 2023-24 (Petronela Radu & Mikil Foss)
Tan Phan, 2023-24 (Yu Jin)
Bishop Placke, Spring 2024 (Tom Marley)
Shaghayegh Rouhi, Spring 2024 (Petronela Radu)
Noah Sorensen, Spring 2024 (Allan Donsig, Chris Schafhauser, & Mikkel Munkholm)
Dennis Startsev, 2023-24 (Tomas Helikar, Biochemistry)
Elizabeth Weber, UCARE 2023-24 (Adam Larios)
Nicholas White, Thesis 2023-24 (Mikil Foss & Adam Larios)
Nicholas White, Spring 2024 (Adam Larios)
2023 Putnam Contest Participants
Paul George, Andrew Medina, Kolton O'Neal, and Nicholas White
Pi Mu Epsilon — Inducted Spring 2024
Mitchell Anderson, Bishop Placke, Matthew Schlatter, Aussia Stander, and Jenna Wakefield
Spring 2024 Nebraska Experimental Math and Outreach Lab Participants
Donovan Dyk, Helena Holland, Jack Murphy, Nick Starns, and Ian Sutton
Math Directed Reading Program – Fall 2023 (mentored by)
Sophia Duncan (Abbey D’Ovidio)
Asmaa Elabasy (Ben Katz and Derek DeBlieck)
Kolton O’Neal (Ryan Watson)
Bishop Placke (Wolf Allred)
Noah Sorensen (Mikkel Munkholm)
Nicholas White (Dylan McKnight)
Math Directed Reading Program – Spring 2024 (mentored by)
Mitchell Lange (Derek DeBlieck)
Kolton O'Neal (Ryan Watson)
Nicholas White (Dylan McKnight)
Department Scholarship Awards
58 scholarships were awarded for the 2023-24 academic year.
Irwin Dubinsky Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics
Charles Fulks, Abigail Hanson, and Abraham Schaecher
Joel Stebbins Fund
Khai Shen Chng
Dean H. and Floreen G. Eastman Memorial Scholarships in Mathematics
Dakota Andrews, Zach Beaver, Braden Borchers, Nevin Butler, Carson Catherall, Abby Gregory, Joshua Havlovic, Bryce Herrington, Anna Janvrin, David Khuu, Chase Kling, Caitlin Murphy, Jack Murphy, Matthew Naumann, Kolton O'Neal, Erica Pearce, Bryant Peck, Bishop Placke, Lily Rippeteau, Keira Rish, Margaret Scott, Sara Vance, Jenna Wakefield, Nicholas White, Edward Wiltgen, Lucas Wurtz, and Brayton Zeibig
Drusilla Winchester Scholarship
Jacob Snider and Elizabeth Weber
Renneman/Luebbers Scholarship in Math
Abigail Hanson, Angeline Luther, Jacob Snider, and Elizabeth Weber
Ruby Matzke Whittemore Fund
Courtney Higginbotham
Dr. Huben Schneider Scholarship
Jacob Snider and Elizabeth Weber
Sylvia & Hans Jeans Mathematics Scholarship
Ryan Bulver, Khai Shen Chng, Charles Fulks, Abbi Gant, William Hammann, Abigail Hanson, Angeline Luther, Layla Montemayor, Abraham Schaecher, Jacob Snider, Elizabeth Weber, and Sebastian Wysocki
Gallup UNL Math Day Scholarship
Blaine Traudt
Linda Bors Mathematics Scholarship
Lily Rippeteau and Sara Vance
Mike & Jo McGuire Scholarship (new for 2023-24)
Kolton O'Neal and Nicholas White
Chivukula & Emani Scholarship for Mathematics (new for 2023-24)
William Hammann
College of Arts & Sciences Scholarships Earned for 2023-24
Dakota Andrews, Mr. John O. Nigh Scholarship
Ryan Bollish, Herbert Thomas & Lilah David Folsom Memorial Endowment – PreMed
Morgan Brockner, Henry & Dorothy Riekes Scholarship
Charlie Fulks, Kenneth & Berni Marcotte Haggard Scholarship
Laura Kirshenbaum, Ed F. & Clara M. Degering Trust Scholarship
Angeline Luther, N Fund - Arts & Sciences Scholarship
Caitlin Murphy, N Fund - Arts & Sciences Scholarship
Lars Pedersen, Ed Hirsch Scholarship
Lily Rippeteau, Dr. Walter Mientka STEM Scholarship
Nicholas White, N Fund - Arts & Sciences Scholarship
Ruthi Zielinski, Ed F. & Clara M. Degering Trust Scholarship
Graduate Students
December 2023 Ph.D.:
Molly R. Creagar, advised by Richard Rebarber and Brigitte Tenhumberg, "Game-Theoretic Approaches to Optimal Resource Allocation and Defense Strategies in Herbaceous Plants."
Aurora Justine DeBellevue, advised by Susan Hermiller and Mark Brittenham, "Effective Computations of Automatic Structures for HNN Extensions," Northrop Grumman.
Meraiah Martinez, advised by Christine Kelley, "On Dyadic Parity Check Codes and Their Generalizations."
Frank Richard Zimmitti, advised by Brian Harbourne, "Unexpectedness Stratified by Codimension."
May 2024 Ph.Ds.:
Lawrence Gustavo Seminario-Romero, advised by Richard Rebarber and Brigitte Tenhumberg, "An analysis of plant response to herbivory," Visting Assistant Professor at Haverford College.
Isabel Safarik, advised by Adam Larios. Dissertation title: "Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Certain Regularizations for the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations and Nonlocal Peridynamic Conservation Laws." May 2024. Fire Weather Research at Colorado State University's Collaborative Institute in the Atmosphere at the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory.
Nikola Kuzmanovski, advised by Alexandra Seceleanu and Jaime Radcliffe. "Discrete Maculay-Steiner Geometry." May 2024.
Matt Enlow, advised by Adam Larios. "Approximation via Degree Reduction of Nonlinearities with Applications to Turbulent Flows, Flame Fronts, and Magnetohydrodynamics." May 2024.
Dylan McKnight. August 2024.
August 2024 Ph.Ds.:
Sara McKnight, advised by George Avalos, "Semigroup well-posedness and finite element analysis of a Biot-Stokes interactive system."
Gregory Faurot, advised by Christopher Schafhauser, "On Regularity of Graph C* -Algebras." Postdoc at Ohio State Unviersity.
Master's Degree Recipients:
December 2023, MAT: Jordan Marie Rector
May 2024, MA/MS: Robert Jeffrey Ireland, Mikkel Munkholm, Zachary Robert Nason, Maciej Piwowarczyk, Ana Elena Podariu
May 2024, MAT:
August 2024, MAT:
Awards and Fellowships
Amy Bouska GTA Leadership Award
Michael Pieper
Linda Bors Fellowships
Matt Enlow
Nawaj KC
Isabel Safarik
Awards and Fellowships (continued)
Steven Haataja Award for Outstanding Exposition by a Graduate Student
Kirsten Morris
Ben Nolting Award
Jordan Barrett
Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young Fellowship
Audrey Goodnight
Walter Mientka Teaching
Gabriel Adams
Don Miller Outstanding GTA
Abbey Long-D'Ovidio
Outstanding 1st Year Student
Wolf Allred
Outstanding Qualifying Exam
Thanh Le
Julianne Faur
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dakota White
2023-2024 AMS Officers
President: Petra Lynn Vanderhei
Treasurer: Julie Geraci
2023-2024 Internships and Summer Schools
Sara McKnight, NASA, Summer 2023
Sabrina Klement, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Summer 2024
Anh Vo, ORNL
Scott Footman-NG, Sandia Laboratories
Publications, Talks and Posters
Michael Pieper: Poster "Nonlocal Variational Problems," Riviere-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDE, 2024. Talk "Variations on a Theme: Two Existence Theorems For Nonlocal Variational Problems," SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, 2024. Talk "Variations on a Theme: Two Existence Theorems For Nonlocal Variational Problems," AMS Fall Central Sectional. Workshop MSRI Summer Graduate School--Topics in Geometric Flows and Minimal Surfaces
Isabel Safarik: Invited Speaker AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Nonlinear PDEs and Their Applications SIAM Minisymposium on Recent Developments in Deterministic and Stochastic PDEs: Theoretical and Numerical Analysis
Grants
Sara McKnight: NASA Nebraska Space Grant, Summer 2023
Faculty and Staff
UNL Awards
College Distinguished Teaching Award
Kevin Gonzales
Awards
Alexandra Seceleanu: Ruth L. Micheler Memorial Prize, AMS, 2024-25
Wendy Smith: Women of Courage, Character, and Commitment Award, Gender and Sexuality Center
Kristen Amman: Rutgers Graduate School of Education 2024 Angelo L. Tomaso Excellence in Dissertation Award
Yvonne Lai: MAA Sectional Distinguished Teaching Award
Christine Kelley: 2024 Fellow, Association for Women in Mathematics
New Postdocs
José Román Aranda Cuevas
Lauren Heller
Ishan Ishan
New Faculty
Kristen Amman
Amy Bennett
Kazuo Yamazaki
Faculty Promotions
Josh Brummer- Associate Professor of Practice
Chris Schafhauser- Associate Professor
Jack Jeffries- Associate Professor
Yvonne Lai- Professor
Family & Friends Recognition Awards
Mark Walker
Kevin Gonzales
Publications
Kazuo Yamazaki: R. Covington, S. Patton, E. Walker, and K. Yamazaki, Improved uniform persistence for partially diffusive models of infectious diseases: cases of avian influenza and Ebola virus disease, Math. Biosci. Eng., 20 (2023), pp. 19686—19709.; Approximating three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics system forced by space-time white noise, J. Differential Equations, to appear. Its pre-print is also available at arXiv:2002.12732 [math.AP].; Non-uniqueness in law of the two-dimensional surface quasi-geostrophic equations forced by random noise, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Probab. Stat., pp. 1-50, to appear.; Non-uniqueness in law of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics system forced by random noise, Potential Anal., pp. 1-73, to appear.
Wendy Smith: Barth, S., Criswell, B., Smith, W. M., & Rushton, G. (2024). Modeling How Professional Development Interacts with Teacher Leaders’ Outcome Expectancies and School Environment Perceptions. International Journal of Leadership in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2024.2307877; Quaisley, K., Smith, W. M., Criswell, B., Funk, R. A., & Hutchinson, A. (2023). From becoming to being: How STEM teachers develop leadership identities. International Journal of Leadership in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2023.2292161
Roger Wiegand Award
Announced at 2024 Recognition
Retirements
Jim Lewis
Richard Rebarber
Grants
Kristen Amman: NSF DUE Grant Number 2300725, Broadening Narratives about Math Majors: Investigating the Needs and Experiences of Community College Mathematics Majors
Brian Harbourne: Eloísa Grifo, Brian Harbourne, Jack Jeffries, Tom Marley, Alexandra Seceleanu, Mark Walker, NSF RTG
Susan Hermiller: Christian Binek and Susan Hermiller (with 19 SI's), Quantum Approaches Addressing Global Threats, UNL Grand Challenge Catalyst grant, 2023
Faculty and Staff Members Serving for 0 (mod 5) Years, Awarded Fall 2023
Jaime Radcliffe (30 years)
Susan Hermiller ( 25 years)
Brigitte Tenhumberg (20 years)
Wendy Smith (15 years)
Doug Pellatz (10 years)
Josh Brummer (5 years)