Neal Koblitz Receives Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics

In April 2009, Professor Neal Koblitz was one of two recipients of the award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics at the 2009 RSA Conference USA, an international meeting of scientific experts and industry leaders in the field of data security and cryptography. The award was given for his work in developing elliptic curve cryptography, a mathematically sophisticated technique that has become important in both academic research and commercial cryptographic systems.
 

Graduate Alumnus Awarded SAIG/CST Prize

In July 2009, Rafal Goebel received the SIAG/CST Prize at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his novel and fundamental results in the study of hybrid dynamical systems. This prize is awarded every two years to a junior researcher for outstanding contributions to mathematical control or systems theory. Dr. Goebel completed his PhD in our department in 2000, advised by Professor Terry Rockafellar. Goebel returned to teach as a lecturer in 2005-07; he is now an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago.