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* Hao Jia and James Bono,
Graduate Students James Bono and Hao Jia are the
recipients of the inaugural 2008 Jean-Claude Falmagne Dissertation
Award for
the best PhD dissertation.
The award of $1,000 is given to the
dissertation that best
uses mathematics to develop conceptual advances for issues coming from
the
social and behavioral sciences. Going beyond the use of mathematics for
computational purposes, the intent is to award a dissertation that uses
concepts from mathematics to reach the new conclusions |
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* Douglas R. White,
Douglas White, anthropology professor and IMBS member, has been named
chair of the Scientific Committee for France's Reseau National des
Systemes Complexes (RNSC), the society that oversees a number of French
research institutions focused on the study of complex systems. A member
of the UC Irvine faculty since 1976, White has been widely recognized
for his research on social networks and complex systems. He currently
serves on the Santa Fe Institute's complexity research external
faculty. In June, White will be a visiting professor in the
sociology department of Eidgenvssische Technische Hochschule (ETH)
University in Zurich where he will work with the complexity research
Competence Center for Coping with Crisis in Socio-Economic Systems. |
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* Rein
Taagepera, University of California at Irvine and Tartu University,
Estonia , has been awarded the Skytte Prize for his profound analysis
of the function of electoral systems in representative democracy. The
prize winner is presented in Svenska Dagbladet, Understreckaren, April
1, 2008. Professor Taagepera will receive the prize at a solemn
ceremony at Uppsala University on Saturday Sept 27. At this occasion he
will also give his prize lecture on a topic to be announced later. The
prize winner also receives 500,000 Swedish crowns (approximately 75,000
US Dollars) in recognition by the Foundation for the most valuable
contribution to political science. Research in all areas of the
discipline are considered: political theory, comparative politics,
public administration and international relations. More
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* Rui J. P. de Figueiredo,
electrical engineering and computer science and mathematics research
professor at UC Irvine, has been elected as a foreign member of the
Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) U.S. Section and was awarded
the academy's George V. Chilingar Medal of Honor for his important
contributions to science and engineering. A UCI faculty member since
1990, de Figueiredo has been instrumental in strengthening the presence
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering's
(IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society in Russia and Eastern Europe.
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* Hongkai Zhao receives the 2007
Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing. Since 1995, the Feng Kang
Prize of Scientific Computing has honored young Chinese scientists in
China and abroad for their significant contributions in the broad areas
of scientific computing every other year.The award is being managed by
the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering
Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Winners are rewarded with a
premium of 20,000 Chinese Yuan each. The Feng Kang Prize is dedicated
to the memory of the late Professor Feng Kang, the founder and pioneer
of Chinese computational mathematics. He was a member of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, a professor and the founding director of the
Computing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His work on
sympletic methods was awarded the First Prize of National Natural
Science Award of China.
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* Amer Aladhadh (Economics, MBS)
and Laurent Tambayong (MBS) were awarded expense-paid awards to attend
the Complexity Summer School of the Paris-Ile de France Complex Systems
Institute, and Professor Doug White was
invited as one of the faculty lecturers, July-August 2007.
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* Andrew
Noymer, Assistant Professor
of
Sociology, received 2007-2008 Social Assistant
Professor
Research Award on the paper "Chronic Disease, Nutrition, and Race in
the Nineteenth Century: tuberculosis and Spyhilis in the Union Army in
the Civil War".
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* Douglas
R. White, Professor of
Anthropology, Awarded Outstanding Article Publication
from the ASA Section on Economic Sociology for his paper "Network
Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational
Collaboration in the Life Sciences" with Co-Authors.
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* Distinguished
Research Professor R. Duncan
Luce, Cognitive Sciences and Economics,
receives 2007 Lauds & Laurels Recipients in Social Sciences.
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* Distinguished Professor R.
Duncan Luce, Cognitive Sciences and Economics, received Honorary
Doctorate of Mathematics from The University of Waterloo, Canada
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* Emeritus
Professor Kenneth
Small, Economics, received 2007 Lauds &
Laurels Award.
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* Hao "Audrey"
Fang, Economics graduate student, received 2007 Sanli Pastore &
Hill Excellence in writing award.
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2006
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* Professor L. Robin Keller,
Operations and Decision Technologies, Awarded "The George E.
Kimball
Medal".
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* Professor Tarow
Indow,
Cognitive Sciences, received International Award for Distinguished
Research.
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* Hao Jia, UCI Economics
graduate student, receives Sanli Paper Award
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* Assistant Professor Natalia
Komarova, Mathematics, received Distinguished Assistant Professor
Award
for Research 2006-2007
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* Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Economics,
graduate student, received 2006 Phi Beta Kappa International Student
Scholarship Award
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* Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Economics,
graduate student, Awarded 2006 Chinese Govenment Award for Outstanding
Self-financed Students Abroad
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* Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Economics,
graduate student, received 2006 Phi Beta Kappa International Student
Scholarship award.
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* Professor
Linton Freeman,
Sociology, received 2006 James S. Coleman
Distinguished Career Award in Mathematical Sociology.
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2005
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* Professor Jean-Claude
Falmagne, received 2005 Innovation Award for his significant and
pioneering work in knowledge assessment systems for teaching.
Innovation Awards
are presented to the top UCI innovators based on the significance,
novelty and
creativity of their technologies.
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* Professor
Jean-Claude
Falmagne, received the 2005 Honorary Doctorate of the
Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz.
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* Professor Richard Palais,
Mathematics, awarded first place in the illustration
category of the National Science Foundation/Science 2006 Visualization
Challenge
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* Professor Bernard N. Grofman,
Political Science, received 2005-2006 Distinguished Faculty Award for
Research.
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* Assistant Professor Natalia
Komarova, Mathematics, received "Prize for the Promise" is an award
given to young women demonstrating exceptional ability, leadership, and
vision in their respective endeavors.
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2004
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* Professor
Ken
Small receives the 2004 Distinguished Transportation Research Award
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* Mark
Steyvers
Awarded 2004 Young
Investigator Award by SEP in Experimental Psychology
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* Professor
R.
Duncan
Luce - Recipient of the 2004 Norman Anderson Award
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* Douglas
White Awarded Outstanding Article Publication from the ASA
Mathematical Sociology Section, 2004. With James Moody, "Social
Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups.
American Sociological Review 68(1):1-25
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* Don
Saari elected to American Academy of Arts Sciences. Donald Saari is
Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics. Saari is
recognized for his important contributions to the social sciences. His
research employs mathematical models to analyze a wide variety of
social and economic phenomena, politics, markets and
intraorganizational behavior. Through his discoveries on how people
vote, he has emerged as a leading critic of the American electoral
process. His work in mathematical economics has revealed a new
understanding of economic principles such as incentive, supply and
demand. Among his previous honors is election in 2001 to the National
Academy of Sciences.
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2003
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*
Professor
R. Duncan Luce receives 2003 National Medal of
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