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					    /*1*/ "Focus on Richard Montgomery",
					   /*2*/ "Fundamental order and structure in nature",
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/*1*/"Falling cats and stars in orbit embody mathematics in action for Richard Montgomery. The Mathematics Department Chair, known for his engaging lectures to students and public audiences alike, uses the examples to convey the research that fascinates him.<br><br>A cat that jumps or gets dropped, as even children know, always lands on its feet. How does it manage this trick? The answer, as Montgomery points out on a poster in his office, is that the cat rotates its body around an axis by transforming its shape in midair. This feline function sounds simple, but explaining how it works requires a branch of mathematics called gauge theory. The field captivated Montgomery as a student. &#8220;These are the deepest levels of mathematics, and they connect to problems in physics that interested me.&#8221; he says.",			
/*2*/"Mathematics underlies the technological advances that drive society. It's also a source of aesthetic inspiration for scientists who discover deep structures in the universe. At UC Santa Cruz, mathematicians study the field's fundamental questions while ensuring that students develop the expertise needed to pursue advanced degrees. They also reach out to teachers in the community, invigorating their instruction with new insights into the foundations of mathematics.<br><br>Mathematics is a vital part of the science curriculum at UCSC, as it is at all universities. Its patterns and rigor permeate the physical and biological sciences alike. Even the ancient Greeks recognized this, concluding that mathematics was a means to understanding the world.",	
/*3*/"In 1994 when Prof. Harold Widom, respected internationally for his work in mathematical analysis, retired to become Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, some of his best work was still to come. Prof. Widom began a collaboration with Prof. Craig Tracy of UC Davis on Random Matrix Theory. This field had its origins in the early 1950's when theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner suggested that the resonance lines (energy levels) of heavy nuclei might be modeled by the spectrum of a large random matrix. In the early 1990's this field was revived by string theorists in connection with two-dimensional quantum gravity. Tracy and Widom computed the limiting distribution functions for the largest eigenvalue of matrices lying in the three Gaussian ensembles. These distributions are now known as the Tracy-Widom distributions.",
/*4*/"Random Matrix Theory is a paradigm for describing and understanding a variety of phenomena in physics, mathematics, and potentially other disciplines. The theory was born in the early 1950s when theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner suggested that the problem of determining the energy level spacings of heavy nuclei-intractable by analytic means-might be modeled after the spectrum of a large random matrix. Originally conceived of as a statistical approach to systems with many degrees of freedom, Random Matrix Theory also applies to systems with few degrees of freedom whose classical dynamics is chaotic; in fact, Random Matrix Theory lies at the heart of one of the basic conjectures in Quantum Chaos. Formulated by Bohigas, Giannoni, and Schmit in 1984, this conjecture asserts that the eigenvalues of a quantized chaotic Hamiltonian (after suitable unfolding) behave like the spectrum of a typical member of the appropriate ensemble of random matrices.",
/*5*/"The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected UCSC Assistant Professor Samit Dasgupta to receive a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship.  The prestigious Sloan awards are intended to support the work of exceptional your researchers early in their academic careers.  Each award includes a $50,000 grant that provides unrestricted support for research over a two-year period.  Dasgupta's research in Mathematics focuses on number theory and arithmetic geometry.  Specifically, he studies the connections between special values of L-functions, algebraic points on Abelian varieities, and units in number fields.",
/*6*/"Alexander Gamburd, Professor of Mathematics at UCSC, has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).  The PECASE Awards are the highest honor that a beginning scientist or engineer can receive in the United States.  The program honors individuals who show exceptional leadership at the frontiers of knowledge.  The award provides $400,000 over five years to support Gamburd's research, which concerns spectral problems in number theory, probability, and combinatorics, particularly problems related to sum-product estimates and expander graphs.",
/*7*/"The Selfridge Prize at the 2006 Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS) VII Meeting, held in Berlin, Germany was awarded to <b>Werner Bley</b> and <b>Robert Boltje</b> for their paper <b><i>Computation of Locally Free Class Groups</i></b>.  In honor of the many contributions of John Selfridge to mathematics, the Number Theory Foundation has established a prize to be awarded to those individuals who have authored the best paper accepted for presentation at ANTS.  This prize, called the Selfridge Prize, is normally awarded every two years in an even numbered year.  The prize winner(s) receive a cash award and a certificate.  The Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS) is an academic conference, held biannually.  Since their inception in Cornell in 1994, the ANTS meetings have become the premier international forums for the presentation of new research in computational number theory, including elementary number theory, algebraic number theory, analytic number theory, geometry of numbers, algebraic geometry, finite fields and cryptography.",
/*8*/"While making major contributions to the fields of number theory, finite groups, Lie algebras, differential geometry and geometric mechanics, the faculty at UCSC's Mathematics Department also take time for challenging non-academic pursuits!  Professor Robert Boltje, whose research centers around the theory of finite groups, their representations, and applications to algebraic number theory, is featured on the cover of the June 2009 issue of Northern Calfornia's Adventure Sports Journal. Professor Boltje counts teaching, research and outrigger canoe paddling as big passions in his life. ",
/*9*/"Doctoral student Alex Castro has been awarded this year’s Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship. This prestigious award recognizes Mr. Castro’s impressive achievements and his remarkable progress towards the completion of a Ph.D. One of the first members of his family to achieve a college education, he has co-authored papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and is on track to collect his doctorate degree in the spring of 2010. Under the tutelage of Professor Richard Montgomery, Mr. Castro is working on a dissertation concerning a new theory of compactifyng the space of Taylor series of space curves through an understanding of limiting tangent objects. Congratulations, Alex!"

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