SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition

The SIAM Education Committee approved a proposal to recognize students for outstanding service and contributions to SIAM Student Chapters by awarding selected students certificates of recognition from SIAM.

Photo Right: Heinz Kreiss, Katharina Kormann (Chapter President) awarded the Certificate of Recognition and Bertil Gustafsson. More Photos.

Rational for Certificate of Recognition
The certificate recognizes the student's hard work, instills loyalty to SIAM, encourages students to join and work with SIAM, gives direct exposure of SIAM leadership to the students, and adds something noteworthy to the student's record for career building.

Criteria for selection
Participation in this program is optional.  The Faculty Advisor(s) of every SIAM Student Chapter may annually select up to one student from each chapter to be recognized for exceptional service to the chapter.  Selection of a recipient is done entirely at the advisor's discretion with no involvement or approval by SIAM.  The recipient must be a student member of the chapter, but does not have to be a member of SIAM. 

Certificate of Recognition
The selected student will receive the SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition signed by the SIAM Executive Director and the SIAM President.  The names of students receiving the certificates of recognition will be announced in SIAM News and will be posted on the SIAM Web site.

Process

Timeline:
February 15: Announce certificate program and request that chapter advisors send name, email, and mailing address of recipient.
March 7: Deadline for receipt of names from chapter faculty advisor
April 1: Mail certificates (to advisor or recipient as indicated by faculty advisor)

Recognition History

2011 Certificate of Recognition recipients (and the faculty advisors who nominated them)
Jose Vega (Carlos Castillo-Chavez & Sergei Suslov), Arizona State University
Lennell Freeman (Adnan Sabuwala & Comlan de Souza), California State University, Fresno
Scott Roby (Jung-Ha An & Kenneth Hoover), California State University, Stanislaus
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu (Aaron Luttman), Clarkson University
Nathanael D. Black (Chris Cox) Clemson University
Lori Ziegelmeier (James Liu), Colorado State University
Diarmuid Cahalane (John Guckenheimer), Cornell University
Daniel T. Parry (Robert Boyer), Drexel University
Bubacarr Bah (Sebastian Geiger), Edinburgh
Nate Pinsky (Rachel Levy), Harvey Mudd College
Rodrigo Rodriguez (Igor Cialenco), Illinois Institute of Technology
Abhishek Kumar Singh (Siddhartha Chakrabarty), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Chengcheng Tang (David Ketcheson), King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Zuhal Yeter (Susanne Brenner & Hongchao Zhang), Louisiana State University
Andrew Huth (Jonathan Cutler), Montclair State University
John Gounley (Richard Noren), Old Dominion University
Yanxiang Zhao (Qiang Du), Penn State University
Poorya Haghi (Jyoti Mathur, Ahmed Sameh & Mark Daniel Ward), Purdue University
Nabor Reyna (Tim Warburton), Rice University
James Hickman (Luis Melara), Shippensburg University
Joseph Ruotolo (Diego Dominici), State University of New York at New Paltz
Val Laurushchyk (Alex Solynin), Texas Tech University
Victor Minden (Misha Kilmer), Tufts University
Felipe Londoño Sepulveda (Gerard Olivar Tost), Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Edward Tavernetti (Tim Lewis), University of California, Davis
Adam Fox (Tom Manteuffel), University of Colorado at Boulder
Brooks Emerick (Richard Braun), University of Delaware
James T. Hungerford (William W. Hager), University of Florida
Jun Niu (Jan Verschelde), University of Illinois at Chicago
Jehanzeb Hameed Chaudhry (Luke Olson), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rüdiger Borsdorf (Nick Higham & David Silvester), University of Manchester
Jyoti Saraswat (Sue Minkoff), University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Amanda Galante (Konstantina Trivisa), University of Maryland, College Park
Charles D. Poole (Saeja Kim, Alfa Heryudono & Cheng Wang), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Jingchen (Chandler) Wu (Peter Miller), University of Michigan
Rebekah Downes (Beyza Aslan), University of North Florida
Tracy Stepien (Julia Arciero), University of Pittsburgh
John Mulhorn (Gary Hart), University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Christina Jager (Ekkehard Sachs), University of Trier
Nicholas Cain (Loyce Adams), University of Washington
Katharina Kormann (Stefan Engblom), Uppsala University
Kapil Ahuja (Lizette Zietsman), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Christine Powers (Hiro Mukai), Washington University
Megan Jean Armentrout (Nathan Gibson) Oregon State University

2010 Recipients (and the faculty advisors who nominated them)
Kehinde Salau
(Carlos Castillo-Chavez), Arizona State University
Mohammad Amin Bahmanian (A. J. Meir), Auburn University
Melissa Moebius (Jung Ha An & Kenneth Hoover), California State University Stanislaus
Andrew Davis (Aaron Luttman), Clarkson University
Blakelee Midyett (Terry Bridgeman), Colorado School of Mines
Caroline Shapcott (Robert Boyer), Drexel University
Karen Schmid (Jared Tanner), Edinburgh/Heriot-Watt University
Shannon Bishop (Luca Dieci), Georgia Institute of Technology
Dmitri Skjorshammer (Rachel Levy), Harvey Mudd College
Ben Niu (Yizhi Zhang), Illinois Institute of Technology
Venkat Appal Raju (Siddhartha P. Chakrabarty), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Silvia Jimenez (Susanne C. Brenner & Li-yeng Sung), Louisiana State University
Andrew Huth (Bodgan G. Nita), Montclair State University
Matthew Causley (Michael Booty), New Jersey Institute of Technology
Anne Costolanski (Michael Shearer and Ralph Smith), North Carolina State University
Thomas Woolley (Mason A. Porter), Oxford University
Isabelle Laureyn (Jyoti Mathur), Purdue University
Yu Ling Sharpe (Manuel Lopez), Rochester Institute of Technology
Joseph Ruotolo (Natalie Cartwright), State University of New York at New Paltz
Jennifer Emerson (Alexander Yu. Solynin), Texas Tech University
Donghui Chen (Scott MacLachlan), Tufts University
John Alexander Taborda Giraldo (Gerard Olivar Tost), Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Matthew Keegan (Luminita Vese), University of California Los Angeles
Roberto Martinez (Tim Lewis), University of California, Davis
Daniel Kaslovsky (Thomas A. Manteuffel), University of Colorado
Matthew Rashford (Toby Driscoll), University of Delaware
Souvik Bhattacharya (Jay Gopalakrishnan), University of Florida
Lucaci Vaczlavik (Konstantina Trivisa), University of Maryland at College Park
Noemi Petra (Susan Minkoff), University of Maryland Baltimore County
Daniel L. Higgs (Alfa R.H. Heryudono & Cheng Wang), University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Kristofer-Roy Reyes (Peter Miller), University of Michigan
Kristyn Galane (Beyza Aslan), University of North Florida
Andre Loerx (Ekkehard Sachs), University of Trier
Lisa Bishop (Loyce Adams), University of Washington
Kevin R. Pond (Lizette Zietsman), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Jessica Lynn Stigile (Hiro Mukai), Washington University

2009 Recipients (and the faculty advisors who nominated them)
David Murillo (Carlos Castillo-Chavez and Wayne Raskind), Arizona State University
Nidhi Sehgal (A.J. Meir and Paul G. Schmidt), Auburn University
Yered Pita-Juarez (David Zeigler), California State University Sacramento
Desiree Davidson (Jung-Ha An and Kenneth R. Hoover), California State University Stanislaus
Michael Opperman (Peter R. Turner), Clarkson University
Christian Kuehn (John Guckenheimer), Cornell University
David P. Kimsey (Robert Boyer), Drexel University
Javed Siddique (Padmanabhan Seshaiyer), George Mason University
Hendrik Orem (Rachel Levy), Harvey Mudd College
Yizhi Zhang (Xiaofan Li), Illinois Institute of Technology
Rick Barnard (Susanne C. Brenner and Li-yeng Sung), Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Arango (Bogdan G. Nita), Montclair State University
Yogesh Joshi (Lou Kondic), New Jersey Institute of Technology
Candice Rockell (Hideaki Kaneko), Old Dominion University
Ryan Hass (Nathan Gibson), Oregon State University
David Hewett (Mason A. Porter), Oxford University
Brandon Hill (Jyoti Marthur), Purdue University
Jeffrey Hokanson (Timothy Warburton), Rice University
Ryan Vinson (Natalie Cartwright), State University of New York at New Paltz
Kaleb McKale (Eugenio Aulisa), Texas Tech University
Carlos Chiquete (Alain Goriely), University of Arizona
Tyler Skorczewski (Joseph Biello), University of California at Davis
Thomas Goldstein (Luminita Vese), University of California Los Angeles
Daniel Kaslovsky (Thomas A. Manteuffel), University of Colorado at Boulder Graduate
Ryan C. Schilt (Anne M. Dougherty), University of Colorado at Boulder Undergraduate
McKenna Roberts (Gregory J. Morrow), University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Timothy Vis (Lynn Bennethum), University of Colorado at Denver
Swati Deb Roy (Sergei Pilyugin), University of Florida
Alen Agheksanterian (Susan Minkoff), University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Matthew Hoffman (Konstantina Trivisa), University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher Jones (Julia Arciero), University of Pittsburgh
Mark Walters (Lincoln Lu), University of South Carolina
Rhys Ulerich (Todd Arbogast and Clint Dawson), University of Texas at Austin
Joshua Jacobs (Loyce M. Adams), University of Washington
Franziska Hinkelmann (Lizette Zietsman), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Caile Ohs (Hiro Mukai), Washington University

2008 Recipients (and the faculty advisors who nominated them)
Daniel Rios-Doria (Carlos Castillo-Chavez and Dieter Armbruster), Arizona State University
Asuman Seda Turkmen (A. J. Meir and Paul G. Schmidt), Auburn University
Rommel Cortez (Coskun Cetin), California State University Sacramento
Jie Sun (Peter R Turner), Clarkson University
Jonathan Woody (Christopher Cox), Clemson University
Tian Xie (David E. Keyes), Columbia University
Selcuk Koyuncu (Robert Boyer), Drexel University
Ben Niu (Xiaofan Li), Illinois Institute of Technology
Murat Manguoglu (Jyoti Mathur), Purdue University
Jay Raol (Tim Warburton), Rice University
Carly J. Anderson (Natalie Cartwright), State University of New York at New Paltz
Amy Jennifer Drew (Eugenio Aulisa), Texas Tech University
Malena Espanol (Misha Kilmer), Tufts University
Serina Diniega (Alain Goriely), University of Arizona
Alejandro Cantarero (Luminita Vese), University of California Los Angeles
Christian Ketelsen (Thomas A. Manteuffel), University of Colorado at Boulder
Derek Moulton (Richard Braun), University of Delaware
Minah Oh (Sergei S. Pilyugin), University of Florida
Michael Wolf (Luke Olson), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P. Aaron Lott (Konstantina Trivisa), University of Maryland College Park
Mark Walters (Lili Ju), University of South Carolina at Columbia
Katie Oliveras (Loyce Adams), University of Washington
Sayan Mondal (Suzanne L. Weekes), Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2007 Recipients:
Xunyang Shen, Clarkson University (faculty advisor Peter R. Turner)
Alexander Engau, Clemson University (faculty advisor Christopher L. Cox)
Joseph Jailer-Coley, Columbia University (faculty advisor David E. Keyes)
Emek Kose, Drexel University (faculty advisor Robert Boyer)
Colton Magnant, Emory University (faculty advisors James Nagy & Michele Benzi)
Kelly I. Dickson, North Carolina State University (faculty advisors Michael Shearer & Ralph C. Smith)
Samuel F. Feng, Rice University (faculty advisor Mark Embree)
Katherine Grzedzicki, Rochester Institute of Technology (faculty advisor Dr. Manuel Lopez)
Anna Haensch, State University of New York at New Paltz (faculty advisor Diego Dominici)
Curtis Wesley, Texas Tech University (faculty advisor Lih-Ing W. Roeger)
Erin Munro, Tufts University (faculty advisor Misha Kilmer)
Xavier Alameda, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (faculty advisor Jaume Franch)
Julia Arciero, University of Arizona (faculty advisor Alain Goriely)
Ronald Lok-Ming Lui, University of California, Los Angeles (faculty advisor Tony F. Chan)
Christian Ketelsen, University of Colorado at Boulder (faculty advisor Tom Manteuffel)
Sanghui Lee, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (faculty advisor Seung H. Son)
J. Regan Beckham, University of Delaware (faculty advisor Richard J. Braun)
Swati DebRoy, University of Florida (faculty advisor Sergei S. Pilyugin)
Luke Owens, University of South Carolina at Columbia (faculty advisor Lili Ju)
Pearl Flath, University of Texas at Austin (faculty advisors Todd Arbogast & Clint Dawson)
Joshua Goldwyn, University of Washington (faculty advisor Loyce M. Adams)
Angela Leo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (faculty advisor Suzanne L. Weekes)

For more information about chapters, contact Membership Manager Susan Whitehouse or Membership Coordinator Nancy Snell.

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