The scholarship may go to a graduate or undergraduate student; student must be studying applied mathematics and currently enrolled in applied math courses; must have completed at least 60 credit hours; selection of recipient must be based in part on quality of performance in academic coursework and letters of recommendation provided by faculty; scholarships not renewable.

The Victor Twersky Memorial Scholarship is a memorial to Professor Victor Twersky who was a long time faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and the founder, as well as principal supporter, of the department's Applied Mathematics Group. His research area was in Mathematical Physics, principally the scattering theory of electro-magnetic waves. He was a fellow of a number of scientific societies.
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Award Winners:

• Natasa Pavlovic, 1999-2000 AY, thesis student of Professor Susan Friedlander. Her thesis was on the analysis of singular fluid problems. She is was named a Clay Prize Fellow in 2002, also has been a postdoctoral fellow and has been promoted to Assistant Professor in 2005 in Mathematics at Princeton University, one of the best starting positions the department has ever had.

• Diego Dominici, 2000-2001 AY, thesis student of Professor Charles Knessl, working on a thesis concerning queueing models for data handling and he will defend his thesis at the beginning of July. He will be starting a faculty position at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Poughkeepsie during the Fall of 2003. He awarded the national SIAM Richard DiPrima Prize for young applied mathematicians. Richard DiPrima was a senior applied mathematician at RPI in New York State.

• Darrell Wu, 2001-2002 AY, an undergraduate student that took Professor Susan Friedlander's graduate Fluid Dynamics course and did very well in it. He was also in Professor Charlie Tier's 2002 NSF Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates program. He also was previously awarded other scholarships and he will be going to medical school soon.

• Yegeny Goncharov, 2002-2003 AY, thesis student of Professor Stanley R. Pliska of the Department of Finance and MSCS Advisee of Professor Susan Friedlander. His thesis concerns the mathematical theory of mortgage contracts. He will be one of the first Ph.D.s in the joint Computational Finance track program between the Department of Finance and the Department of MSCS's Applied Mathematics. He will be starting a Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor during the Fall of 2003.

• Zongwu Zhu, 2003-4 AY, thesis student of Professor Floyd Hanson and is working in the Computational Finance track. He came to UIC with one previous paper that was published while here in Optimization Methods and Software on trust regions. He has also made significant contributions to papers by improving accuracy and extending current methods in our own computational finance research program, concerning maximum likelihood estimation of financial market parameters. One joint paper was published in Amer. Math. Soc. Contemporary Mathematics and another was published as an invited paper in the Proceeding of the December 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Still another paper on risk-neutral option pricing for jump-diffusions has been submitted as an invited paper in the Proceeding of the December 2005 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Seville.

• Natalya Popova, 2004-5 AY, thesis student of Professor Susan Friedlander and will shortly defend her thesis The Onset of Convection in a Horizontal Layer of a Porous Medium in the Presence of Vibration in May 2005. Her work is applicable to crystal growth, space physics and biomedicine. She has published two proceedings papers in the related areas. She will have a postdoctoral position at the University of Missouri at Columbia starting Fall 2005.