Thomas Hales and Sam Ferguson Awarded the Fulkerson Prize for Outstanding Work in Discrete Mathematics
The innovative work of Professor Thomas Hales, along with that of his collaborator Sam Ferguson, was awarded the 2009 Fulkerson Prize for two papers in the area of discrete geometryπ–"A proof of the Kepler Conjecture" and "Sphere Packings, V. Pentahedral Prisms"
Professor Gartside Receives Teaching Excellance Award
Prof. Paul Gartside is the winner of the 2010 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award. The Bellet teaching awards were established in 1998 by School of Arts and Sciences alumnus David Bellet and his wife, Tina, to recognize outstanding and innovative undergraduate teaching in Arts and Sciences.
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Thomas Hales Awarded 2010 Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Research
The work of Thomas Hales was also recently recognized by the University with a Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Research. At the awards ceremony, Chancellor Mark Nordenberg praised the Mellon Professor of Mathematics and senior scholar Thomas Hales for his seminal contributions to a broad range of mathematics areas, including discrete geometry, algebra and formal theorem proving.