Alumni News
Hongyi Yu writes: “I’ve been working for Silvaco
International for four-plus years. I’m the project manager for IC interconnect
simulation. My product has a pretty big market in Japan
and Europe. I’ve been working closely with the
Application Engineers in Japan,
France, and the US.
We exchange emails almost every day and have video conferences often. It’s very
interesting work and I really love it.”
Sergio writes: “I work for the Institute of Mathematics
of the National University of Mexico. I obtained tenure in April 1999. My
position is: Full TimeResearcher B (there are four levels: Assitant Researcher,
and Full Researcher A, B and C, A being the lowest and C being the highest). I
have belonged to the Researchers National System since July of 1993 (it is a
System organized by the Mexican Goverment to give money to people who do
research). There are four levels: Candidate of Researcher and Researcher I, II
and III. I am Researcher I (I will be Researcher II in January of 2004). I
entered the Mexican
Academy of Sciences in
November of 2002. I have 20 published research papers and three more accepted.
I was one of the editors of the book: Continuum Theory: Proceedings of the
Special Session in Honor of Professor Sam B. Nadler, Jr.s 60th
Birthday, Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics Series, Vol. 230,
Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, Basel, 2002. (Coeditors:Alejandro Illanes and
Ira Wayne Lewis). I was a guest editor for a special volume of Topology And Its
Applications, Vol. 126, No. 3, 2002, in which the proceedings of the First
International Meeting on Continuum Theory. (Coeditors: James T. Rogers, Jr. and
Carl Seaquist). I am an editor for a special volume of Topology And Its
Applications in which was published the proceedings of the II International
Meeting on Continuum Theory (Coeditors: Alejandro Illanes and James T. Rogers,
Jr.) I was the First Eiesland Sabbatical Visitor of West Virginia University,
award obtained in a curricular contest, August 2000 through July 2001.”
Tom taught a PREP course on the Tulane
campus this summer. PREP is a program
through the MAA to provide continuing education for undergraduate faculty
funded in part by the NSF. (Tom is a fully qualified casualty
actuary and an exam chairperson for the actuarial exams.) The course was
well received and will be offered again next summer. Tom would be
happy to talk to undergraduates about career opportunities in the actuarial
field.
Wayne Powell (Ph.D. 1978)
In December 2002 Wayne was
inaugurated as the eleventh president of Lenoir-Rhyne
College (Hickory, NC). Previously he had served as
Vice-President and Dean for Academic Affairs. Wayne’s thesis advisers were John Dauns and
Laszlo Fuchs.
George Boros (Ph.D. 1997)
We are sorry to report the death of George from cancer in
February 2003. George taught at Tulane and at Xavier University.
James (Mac) Hyman (BS 1972) is President of the Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Mac
Gisele Ruiz Goldstein (Ph.D. 19XX) is Professor at the University of Memphis,
along with her husband Jerry Goldstein (see Faculty News). Gisele was recently chair of the 2004 AMS Menger Prize Committee. She is on the editorial boards of three
journals, and has directed (or codirected) three Ph.D. theses with a few more
in progress.
Matthias
Hieber spent a year at Tulane in the nineteen eighties, and now occupies
a Chair at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Michael
Huth, who received his PhD from Tulane in 1991, now holds the
position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing of the Imperial
College of Science and Technology.
Keye
Martin, Tulane PhD 2000, recently completed a four-year
postdoctoral appointment at the University of Oxford, UK. He is visiting Tulane
this year, collaborating with Mike Mislove and Ben Worrell, an Oxford DPhil who
holds a postdoc at Tulane.