Wei and Montee Win Math Awards

January 10, 2013

Fan Wei and MurphyKate Montee, alumnae of the Williams College SMALL undergraduate research project, received the Morgan and Schafer prizes for undergraduate research at the joint annual mathematics meetings in San Diego January 10, 2013. For an account of MurphyKate’s work and a description of the flash mob knot, see the article by Emily Lamb at the Scientific American website.

In addition, two of the posters advised by alum Andrew Beveridge won outstanding presentation awards.

About Frank Morgan:

Frank Morgan works in minimal surfaces and has published 200 articles and six books. He is currently Atwell Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Williams College.
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