2015 winners of the Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund

Amjad Ali is currently a faculty member at Centre for Advanced Studies in Pure and Applied Mathematics (CASPAM), Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan. He completed his graduation in Computational Mathematics from BZU, Pakistan in 2001, received his M.S./M.Phil. degree in Computer Software Engineering from NUST, Pakistan in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from BZU in 2013. His research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), High Performance Computing (HPC) and Parallel Computing. He has experience of developing parallel versions of some serial CFD applications as well as installation and management of cluster systems. He is also an experienced trainer for high performance parallel computing at national and international levels. Amjad Ali is playing a key role in organizing CRSOM-2 2015 (2nd CASPAM Regional Student Olympiad of Mathematics), just like his active role for CRSOM-1 2014.

Christopher Drupieski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Christopher earned his PhD in Mathematics in 2009 under the supervision of Brian Parshall at the University of Virginia, specializing in the representation theory of algebraic groups, Lie algebras, quantized enveloping algebras, and related structures. After earning his PhD, Christopher held a VIGRE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Georgia from 2009–2012, and was an active member of the University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, a vertically-integrated research group comprised of faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. Christopher then joined the faculty at DePaul University in 2012. Christopher’s current research interests involve the representation theory and cohomology of algebraic groups and related structures, including Lie algebras, finite groups of Lie type, quantized enveloping algebras and quantum groups, Lie superalgebras, and strict polynomial functors. Christopher has 11 published papers in these areas, and has given conference and seminar presentations on these topics throughout the United States and Europe. His research has been supported by various internal grants from DePaul University, and was supported from 2013–2015 by an AMS–Simons Travel Grant. Christopher was awarded a Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellowship from the Mathematical Association of America in 2010–2011. More recently, Christopher has been actively involved in the mathematical preparation of future elementary school teachers.

Dr. Veselin Jungic is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and a Deputy Director of the IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University. Most of his work is within Ramsey theory and the field of mathematics education. Dr. Jungic is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a recipient of the Canadian Mathematical Society Excellence in Teaching Award.

Connections in Discrete Mathematics is a conference that is bringing together many prominent researchers in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, computer science, and more. This gives young researchers a unique opportunity to participate in and connect with both young and senior researchers. The funding available through the Elsevier Mathematical Sciences Sponsorship Fund will help support the travel of several young researchers who might otherwise be unable to participate in this conference. The global nature of Elsevier is being mirrored in how the funding is being used to bring young researchers together from around the world.