Five members of the School of Physical Sciences' mathematics department have
earned three-year National Science Foundation grants totaling almost $1 million
to support their research: Peter Li, Chancellor's Professor, received $236,000 to
study the structure of certain classes of manifolds; Timur Oikhberg,
assistant professor, $85,000 to investigate geometric properties of operator
spaces; Karl Rubin, the Edward and Vivian Thorp Professor of Mathematics,
$265,000 to study elliptic curves; Ronald Stern, dean of physical sciences, $240,000

Qing Nie, associate professor of mathematics, has received a four-year,
$1.2 million grant through a National Science Foundation/National
Institutes of Health joint initiative on mathematical biology, with
funding from the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of
the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Together with cell
biologists Lee Bardwell and Tau-Mu Yi, and mathematicians Natalia
Komarova and Frederic Wan, Nie will use mathematical, computational and
experimental approaches to understand how proper signal processing occurs