Scholarships, Awards, Honors
- February 2003: $7500 awarded by the University of Maine
Faculty Research Funds Committee for the proposal, "Relations
Satisfied by Multiple Polylogarithms."
- April 14, 2000: $1000 Travel Grant
awarded by the American
Mathematical Society to attend the "Mathematical
Challenges of the 21st Century" conference at UCLA, August 7-12, 2000.
- July 28, 1999: Awarded $800 from International Travel Funds
provided by the Vice Provost for Research and the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences to present a paper at
IMACS-ACA
(International Association for
Computers in Simulation Conference on Applications of
Computer Algebra), El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, June 26, 1999.
- January 1999: $5000 University of Maine Summer Faculty Research Award
for the proposal, "A New Technique for Analyzing Certain
Difference Differential Equations."
- October 1998: Appointed to the Graduate Faculty of the
University of Maine.
- April 1995: Elected to the
UIUC1 Chapter of the
Phi
Kappa Phi Honor Society.
- April 1995:
Awarded $100 prize by the
UIUC1
Chapter of the
Sigma Xi
Scientific Research Society in their 1995 student paper competition
for
Ramanujan's formula for the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function,
Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. Vol. 120, Part 3, Oct. 1996, pp. 391--401.
- March 1995: Awarded a two-year
NSERC2 postdoctoral
fellowship.
- May 1991-May 1995: Granted quarter-time research support by the
University of Illinois Campus Research Board.
- April 1993: Awarded $100 prize by the
UIUC1
Chapter of the
Sigma Xi
Scientific Research Society in their
1993 student paper competition for my first publication,
On
a claim of Ramanujan about certain hypergeometric series,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 121, Aug. 1994, pp. 1145--1149.
- Summer 1988: Secured $3000
NSERC2
Undergraduate Student Research Award to conduct research
in functional equations
in the Faculty of
Mathematics at the
University of Waterloo
under the supervision of Professor
C. T. Ng.
This award was renewed for the summer of 1989.
- Winter 1988: Secured $3000
NSERC2 Industrial
Research Award at
WATCOM Systems Inc., a software development
firm formerly affiliated with the
University of Waterloo.
This award was renewed for the fall of 1988.
- Fall 1985: $1200 University of Waterloo entrance scholarship.
1University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2The
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada