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Congratulations to all 2024 graduates! The Mathematics Department was pleased to make the following awards:

Bennington P. Gill Memorial Award to:

• Justin Salamon-Cantillo
• Tabitha Ramirez

Emil L. Post Memorial Award to:

• Sebastian Ortiz
• Max Sehaumpai

See award descriptions here.

The CCNY Physics Club is hosting an Integration Bee April 16 and 18, see this page for more information and to sign up. There is an Instagram page for the Physics Club at this link

Professor Vladimir Shpilrain has won a 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Grant for the proposal “Private networks and redactable blockchains” jointly with Alexey Ovchinikov of Queens College.

According to the summary, their project will “address security concerns that naturally arise in private networks of electronic devices such as what has become known as the Internet of Things (e.g. smart cities, smart homes, smart cars, etc.), and especially private networks within financial and government institutions in which security of communications and of record-keeping is crucial.”

The Department of Mathematics at CCNY is pleased to welcome Dr. María Sánchez-Muñiz as a Lecturer of Mathematics, effective Spring 2024. She has experience teaching mathematics across a broad range of levels. Her mathematical research explores connections between dynamical systems and modeling climate. Her dissertation is on a model for permafrost thawing and its effects on the global carbon cycle. She is also interested in ecological models and is a collaborator of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network.

Dr. Sánchez-Muñiz will receive her doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in Fall 2023. She has been an instructor and mentor there across various courses and topics in Mathematics and Climate. She has Master's degrees in Mathematics both from Minnesota and CCNY, and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics from CCNY and Accounting from the University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras Campus.

Prof. Sergiy Merenkov received a single-investigator National Science Foundation grant from the Analysis program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences. The project, "Uniformization of non-uniform geometries" deals with random surfaces and fractals. Particularly, it addresses the uniformization of random surfaces that are spread over the sphere, and simultaneous quasiconformal welding with applications to dynamical systems.