Nakhle Asmar is writing, with the assistance of Greg Jones, BS '01 mathematics, Applied Complex Analysis with Partial Differential Equations, which is being published by Prentice Hall and will appear in fall 2001.
Carmen Chicone has been an associate editor of Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society since 1999.
Stamatis Dostoglou is co-principal investigator on a three-year $431,000 NSF grant, "Integration of Adaptive Technology and Clinical Assessment into Mathematics at MU."
Ira Papick and John Beem are co-principal investigators on a $6 million NSF project "Show-Me Project: A National Center for Standards Based Middle School Mathematics Curriculum, Dissemination and Implementation." Papick and Beem have given numerous presentations on their work.
Ira Papick is the recipient of the 2001 University of Missouri Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award is presented annually to one faculty member who is selected from the thousands of faculty in the University of Missouri System. Papick received his award in St. Louis in May.
Igor Verbitksy received a promotion from associate professor to professor, and Tanya Christiansen and Konstantin Makarov were promoted to associate professors with tenure.
Dale Cutkosky spoke, on "Monomialization of Morphism" at the American Mathematical Society meeting March 30-31 in Lawrence, Kan. He was an invited speaker at a conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Sheeram Abhyankar.
Steve Hofmann was the principal speaker in June 2000 at the mini-course on harmonic analysis and PDE at the summer school in mathematics in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Hofmann's joint paper with Pascal Auscher, John L. Lewis and Phillipe Tchanitchian, "On the Analycity of Kato's Square Root Operators," will be published by Acta Mathematica. Hofmann and Marius Mitrea were invited speakers at the fourth Riviere-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDEs in April 2001 at the University of Minnesota.
Tanya Christiansen gave invited talks in summer 2000 at the Harmonic Analysis and Zeta Functions Conference in Gottingen, Germany, and at the annual partial differential equations conference in Nantes, France.
Nigel Kalton gave five lectures on "Maximal Regularity" at the Summer School 2000 on Functional Analysis in Besancon, France. Kalton holds a five-year, $340,000 NSF grant to study twisted sums and unconditional structures on Banach spaces.
