UW Medalists in Mathematics

	Chad Klumb, the Freshman Medalist for 2008, was a participant in the REU program in the summer of 2008. In this program he completed the solution of an outstanding problem by proving that a graph invented by a previous REU student is “3-to-1” in a certain technical sense. He is continuing his work on this subject and will give a talk on his results at the Mathfest in Portland, Oregon in August 2009. He is currently working with Jim Morrow and taking the graduate real analysis course.
	Ting-You Wang, the Junior Medalist for 2008, was previously chosen as the outstanding student in the honors calculus sequence, Math 334/5/6, for the academic year 2005-06. In the summer of 2006 he was selected to participate in our Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, where he and two other students developed an algorithm to compute the solution of the discrete inverse conductivity to much higher accuracy than was previously possible. He and his teammates reported on their work at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2007. Ting-You was also the winner of the Mathematics Department’s Gullicksen Award in 2007. He graduated in December 2007 with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Engineering. He is currently employed by Amazon, but he is planning to attend graduate school in computer science.
	Jeff Eaton was selected as an Arts and Sciences Dean’s Medalist for 2008. He is currently a Marshall Scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College in London (see article).

(Photos by Kathy Sauber)