Undergraduate Students
Math Majors Graduating with Highest Distinction—Spring 2019
Elizabeth Spaulding, Zachary Van Roy
Math Majors Graduating with High Distinction – Spring 2019
Timothy Knaak, Jianzhi Lou, Samantha Rouse, Katy Stuckey, Zachary Warneke, Luke Wilmes, Tao Yao
Math Majors Graduating with Distinction – Spring 2019
Derek Baumfalk, Nora Breen, Marina Cozac, Carolyn Davis, Andrew Fanning, Brandon Geren, John Stobbe, Jacob Warner
Math Majors Graduating with Honors – Spring 2019
Andrew Fanning, Timothy Knaak, Nathan Ray, Elizabeth Spaulding, John Stobbe, Maxim van Klinken, Zachary Van Roy, Zachary Warneke, Jacob Warner
Math Majors Graduating in Spring 2019
Kyle Anderson, Derek Baumfalk, Nora Breen, Amber Bridgeford, Marina Cozac, Andrew Daehling, Carolyn Davis, Andrew Fanning, Brandon Geren, Kelly Glaser, Zixuan Hao, Siru Hou, Chutian Jiang, Timothy Knaak, Arich Knaub, Mark Knudsen, Abigail Leuschen, Nicholas Leyden, HaoZhou Li, Jianzhi Lou, Tyler Lowery, Xianyao Lu, Laurel Lund, Lihua Luo, Jiahui Ning, Oliver O’Brien, Cameron Pick, Rilee Potter, Ajay Rathore, Nathan Ray, Samantha Rouse, Isabel Safarik, Beau Schindler, Caleb Schmidt, Alexander Schroeck, Jackson Shafer, Jianfei Shao, Zehao Song, Elizabeth Spaulding, John Stobbe, Katy Stuckey, Moriah Tiemann, Elizabeth Tyler, Maxim van Klinken, Zachary Van Roy, Addison Waller, Xingyun Wang, Zachary Warneke, Jacob Warner, Luke Wilmes, Yang Xiao, Yi Xiao, Fengshu Xu, Jingqian Xu, Tao Yao, Zhibo Zhang, Zixin Zhang, Chenyang Zhao, Di Zhao, Junxia Zhao
Math Majors Graduating High Distinction– Fall 2018
Julianne Faur, Thuan Luong, Brook Verbik
Math Majors Graduated in Fall 2018
Nicole Benker, Junzhe Cai, Ge (Grace) Chai, Noah Hansen, Claire Kamas, Thuan Luong, Mia Nguyen, Hunter Rowen, Hetong Shi, Leonard Tan, An Tran, Brook Verbik, Shikai Wang, Boqing Wu, Qiwen Xu, Fan Yang, Zhongkai Yu, Hanbo Zhan, Xiaotong Zhang, Yanbin Zhou
Math Majors Graduated in Summer 2018
Chun Yin Ho, Zachary Rouzee, Nathan Johnston, Han Liu
Senior Honors and Distinction Theses (directed by)
Elizabeth Spaulding (Adam Larios)
Chancellors Scholars
Jianzhi Lou, Elizabeth Spaulding, Zachary Warneke
UCARE Awards and Undergraduate Research Participation (directed by)
Allison Cruikshank (Lee), Jared Ott (Pérez), Rilee Potter (Zupan)
2018 Putnam Contest Participants
Alex Heitzman, Andrew Haar, Jared Ott, Anjaneshwar Ganesan, Zachary Warneke
2018 SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations Modeling Participants
Pratap Biskwakarma, Derek Chew, Allison Cruikshank, Quianyu Dong, Jianzhi Lou, Thuan Luong
2019 Mathematical Contest in Modeling Participants
Izzat Adly, Jianzhi Lou, Diego Galvan
Pi Mu Epsilon — Inducted Fall 2018
Ge (Grace) Chai, Miles Davis, Qianyu Dong, Alex Heitzman, Savannah Howard, Luke Diego Galvan, Laurel Lund, Thuan Luong, Mia Nguyen, Lara Quiring, Victoria Salinas, Michael Schneider, Alex Schroeck, Luis Tuarez, Addison Waller, Manying Wang
Irwin Dubinsky Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics
Miles Davis, Alexander Schroeck
Joel Stebbins Fund
Ge (Grace) Chai, Clay Christenson, Savannah Howard, Claire Kamas
Dean H. and Floreen G. Eastman Memorial Scholarships in Mathematics
Fatima Barragan-Herrera, Alexander Batelaan, Derek Baumfalk, Tomohide Bessho, Emmalee Bielenberg, Richard Bouma, Amber Bridgeford, Zach Cairney, Derek Chew, Emily Cleveland, Allison Cruikshank, Grace Dickas, Collin Dougherty, Stanley Drvol, Brandon Geren, Andrew Haar, Alexander Heitzman, Robert Hutchinson, James Janvrin, Matthew Meacham, Sean Michel, Nicholas Nguyen, Ray Nierman, Hannah Oh, Jesse Osnes, Jared Ott, Michael Purcell, Lara Quiring, Amanda Rowley, Isabel Safarik, Simon Schoenbeck, Jarod Schwinck, Elizabeth Spaulding, Moriah Tiemann, An Tran, Elizabeth Tyler, Zachary Van Roy, Nicholas Verdoni, Zachary Warneke, Jacob Warner, Lane Weidner, Qixuan Yang
Gallup UNL Math Day Fund
Jianzhi Lou
Drusilla Winchester Scholarship
Kushagra Kapil
Renneman/Luebbers Scholarship in Math
Lixin Cao, Jordan Schmitz
Ruby Wittemore Fund
Leenah Bouzid
Dr. Huben Schneider Scholarship
Zachary Warneke
Sylvia & Hans Jeans Mathematics Scholarship
Sanat Bhandari, Shannyn Bird, Samuel Carrasco
Chair’s Prize Award
Elizabeth Spaulding
Graduate Students
2019 Ph.Ds.
Master's Degree Recipients
August 2018, MAT: Grant Doerr, Emily Dvorak, Wendi Herbin, Kristina Pearson, Jordan Sis
MS/MA, May 2019: Sara Ahrens, Nicole Buczkowski, Michael DeBellevue, Austin Eide, Allison Frideres, Catherine Godfrey, Michelle Haver, Jacob Kettinger, Dylan McKnight, Hayley Olson, Leilani Pai, Alyssa Seideman, Ana Wright, Frank Zimmitti
Awards and Fellowships
2018-2019 Othmer Graduate Fellowship
Nikola Kuzmanovski and Collin Victor
2018-2019 Chancellors Graduate Fellowship
Allison Ganger and Jackson Morris
2018 Walter Mientka Teaching Award
Michelle Haver
2018 Don Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student
Mitch Hamidi
2018 Outstanding First Year Student
Catherine Godfrey
2018 Outstanding Qualifying Exam
Michael DeBellevue
2018 Bill Leavitt Award
Taran Funk
2018 Lloyd Jackson Award
Aurora Marks
2018 Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young Fellowship
Robert Huben
Amy Bouska GTA Leadership Award
George Nasr
Linda Bors Fellowships
Lara Ismert, Matt Reichenbach, Karina Uhing
2018-2019 Steven Haataja Award for Outstanding Exposition by a Graduate Student
Aurora Marks
2018-2019 Conference Speakers and Poster Sessions
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, Spring 2019 - Ariel Setniker
AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Fayetteville, AR, November 2018 - Elizabeth Carlson, Nicholas Packauskas, Josh Pollitz
AMS Fall Western Sectional, San Francisco, CA, October 2018 - Lara Ismert, Josh Pollitz
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Auburn, AL, March 2019 - Ben Drabkin, Josh Pollitz
Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, Spring 2019 - Ariel Setniker
Brazos Analysis Seminar, Texas A&M University, September 2018 - Lara Ismert
Creighton Early Career Mathematician’s Conference 2018 - Nicholas Packauskas, Katie Tucker
Graduate Workshop in Commutative Algebra for Women & Mathematicians of Other Minority Genders, Poster Session - Erica Musgrave
Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, Miami University, May 2018 - Derek DeSantis, Lara Ismert
Joint Math Meetings presentations, Baltimore, MD, January 2019 - Ben Drabkin, Allison Ganger, Mitch Hamidi, Wei Hu, Robert Huben, Lara Ismert, Nathan Poppelreiter, Ariel Setniker, Katie Tucker, Marla Williams
KUMUNU Jr., 2019 - Ben Drabkin, Nicholas Packauskas
Morgantown Algebra Days, Poster Session, 2019 - Nicholas Packauskas
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Research Conference, April 2019 - Meggan Hass
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Greenville, SC, November 2018 - Karina Uhing
Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME) Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, Spring 2019 - Ariel Setniker, Karina Uhing
SIAM Central States Section, Norman, OK, October 2018 - Elizabeth Carlson
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Spring 2019 - Elizabeth Carlson
SLAM Conference, Poster Session - Ben Drabkin
Texas National McNair Research Conference, 2018 - Kaitlin Tademy
Vanderbilt Subfactor Seminar, April 2019 - Lara Ismert
Young Mathematicians in C*-algebras Conference at KU Leuven, Belgium, August 2018 - Mitch Hamidi and Lara Ismert
Research Papers Published
Drabkin, B. (2019). “Aymptotic invariants of ideals with Noetherian symbolic Rees algebra and applications to cover ideals.” Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.
Ismert, L. (2019). “Kernel Stabilization of Unbounded Derivations on C*-algebras.” New York Journal of Mathematics.
Males, L. M., & Setniker, A. (2019). “Planning with Curriculum Materials: Interactions between Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Attention, Interpretations and Responses” [Special issue]. International Journal of Educational Research.
Uhing, K. (2018). “Exploring the phenomenon of pedagogical empathy.” In T. E. Hodges, G. J. Roy, & A. M. Tyminski (Eds.), Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 994-997).
Wakefield, N., Uhing, K., & Hamidi, M. (2018). “Building long-term support for faculty through graduate student instructor professional development.” In W. M. Smith, B. R. Lawler, J. F. Strayer, & L. Augustyn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership Conference (pp. 84-90).
Williams, M., Smith, W. M., Uhing, K., & Funk, R. (2019). “Leadership and commitment to educational innovation: Comparing two cases of active learning reforms.” Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education.
Internships and Summer Schools
Nicole Buczkowski, NSF INTERN Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, Summer 2019
Elizabeth Carlson, MSRI, Recent topics on well-posedness and stability of incompressible fluid and related topics, Summer 2019; LANL Codesign Summer School, 2019
Gary DeClerk, MSRI/BIRS, Geometric group theory, Summer 2019
Derek DeSantis, NSF Mathematical Summer Graduate Internship, Los Alamos National Lab, Summer 2018
Paula Egging, NSF Mathematical Summer Graduate Internship, Argonne National Laboratory, Summer 2018
Robert Huben, NSF Mathematical Summer Graduate Internship, Nevada National Security Site, Summer 2018
Amadeus Martin, MSRI: Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, Summer 2019
JD Nir, MSRI: Polynomial Method, Summer 2019
Hayley Olson, NSF INTERN Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, Summer 2019
Kaitlin Tademy, Workshop in Knot Theory at Georgia Tech, Summer 2019
Collin Victor, Summer School on Recent Advances in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, University of Southern California, 2019
Faculty and Staff
Promotion to Full Professor
Mikil Foss
Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
Yvonne Lai and Kyungyong Lee
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Susan Hermiller
Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Judy Walker
2018-2019 Beta Theta Pi Outstanding Educator of the Year
Petronela Radu
Faculty Fellow for Student Success
Allan Donsig
Dr. Charles Riedesel Outstanding Academic Advising Award
Doug Pellatz
New Faculty — Fall 2018
Josh Brummer
New Postdocs — Fall 2018
Amanda Laubmeier (Rebarber)
Thomas Kindred (Zupan)
UNL Parents Association Certificates of Recognition for Contributions to Students
Andrew Becklin (3), Janet Emery (2), Kevin Gonzales (3), Mitch Hamidi (3), Michelle Haver, Thomas Kindred, Tom Marley (6), Emily McMillon, George Nasr, Mohammad Rammaha (12), William Rogge (7), Bob Ruyle (4)
Roger Wiegand Award
Alexander Zupan
External Grants and Contracts Received in 2018-2019
Mikil Foss, All Girls All Math, American Mathematical Society
Mikil Foss and Petronela Radu, NSF INTERN Supplement
Susan Hermiller, Geometric Group Theory: Algorithms, Growth, and Low Dimensional Topology, Simons Foundation
Christine Kelley and Glenn Ledder, Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, NSF
Christine Kelley, Glenn Ledder and Alex Zupan, Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, NSA
Tri Lai, Enumeration of Tilings and Related Topics, Simons Foundation
Xavier Perez Gimenez, Random Graphs and Information Dissemination Processes, Simons Foundation
Richard Rebarber, Analysis and Control of Uncertain Population Models, Simons Foundation
Wendy Smith, Persistence, Effectiveness and Retention Studies in STEM Teaching (PERSIST), NSF; Computer Science for All: Adapt, Implement and Research at Nebraska (AIR@NE), NSF; Using Networked Improvement Communities to Design and Implement Program Transformation Tools for Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation (NIC-Transform), NSF; Teacher Leadership: Investigating Trajectories and Persistence (T-LEAD), NSF
Mark Walker, Free resolutions, K-theory and dg-categories, NSF
Faculty and Staff Members Serving for 0 (mod 5) Years
Richard Rebarber (35 years)
Steve Cohn (30 years)
Marilyn Johnson (30 years)
Glenn Ledder (30 years)
Tom Marley (30 years)
Mark Brittenham (20 years)
Mikil Foss (15 years)
Petronela Radu (15 years)
Lindsay Augustyn (10 years)
Robert Ruyle (10 years)
Adam Larios (5 years)
Nathan Wakefield (5 years)
Thank you to Gary DeClerk, Emily McMillon and Marilyn Johnson for organizing the department’s 20th annual recognition event, noting accomplishments from June 2018 to May 2019.