Five members of the School of Physical Sciences' mathematics department have
earned three-year National Science Foundation grants totaling almost $1 million
to support their research: Peter Li, Chancellor's Professor, received $236,000 to
study the structure of certain classes of manifolds; Timur Oikhberg,
assistant professor, $85,000 to investigate geometric properties of operator
spaces; Karl Rubin, the Edward and Vivian Thorp Professor of Mathematics,
$265,000 to study elliptic curves; Ronald Stern, dean of physical sciences, $240,000
to examine and classify "smooth 4-manifolds"; and Martin Zeman, associate
professor, $154,000 to study set theory. Learn more about these aspects of
mathematics on the department Web site.