Our undergraduates continue to thrive. Thanks to Undergraduate Coordinator Mo Hendon for providing information about our undergraduate program. Our students obtained Summer 2021 internships with Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group, Fast Enterprises, Bennett Thrasher, Zurich Consulting Group, among others, and job offers from organizations including GM, Fast Enterprises, and the National Security Agency. Math/Physics double major Terry Phang won a Goldwater Scholarship, completed an REU at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Spring 2021, and has an REU in condensed matter and topological matter at UC Berkeley in Summer 2021. Summer Haag (one of our Strahan winners) is participating in an REU this summer, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: https://www.utc.edu/faculty/andrew-ledoan/reu_2021.php We had the wonderful short film "I Like Mathematics Because..." produced by the UGA Math Club and directed by recent math major AliAnn Xu with original music by recent math major Logan Bayer: https://youtu.be/E_cllQRK7a4 . Thanks to our faculty members Robert Schneider and Mo Hendon for their help with this film. Along the lines of math films, Robert Schneider also arranged a Zoom showing of the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity. The film tells the remarkable story of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, and was preceded by introductory remarks by Ken Ono. Dr. Ono is a former UGA faculty member now at the University of Virginia who served as mathematical consultant on the film. Undergraduate Coordinator Mo Hendon organized our (virtual) undergraduate awards ceremony in May – we were pleased to see 62 attendees, including students, friends and family. The following students were recognized: Alex Eldridge, Summer Haag, and Martha Sikora shared the Charles M. Strahan Award for outstanding junior mathematics majors. Summer will be attending an REU this summer, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: https://www.utc.edu/faculty/andrew-ledoan/reu_2021.php The Hollingsworth Awards for outstanding achievement in sophomore/junior level mathematics courses in calendar 2020 went to Mary Breen, Brad Burke, Michael Cercone, Harrison Chong, Alex Coats, Alex Costa, David Digioia, Nico Fontova, Sylvia Grimm, Cameron Hubbard, Thomas Kent, John Loveall, Hailey Maxwell, Ivan Mo, Harish Murali, Drew Pavlik, Tate Poole, Joey Saltarelli, Marleena Tamminen, Moses Wang, Cole Wittbrodt and Davis York. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, our Kossack Calculus Competition remained on hiatus this year, but it will return next year.
