WINTER 1999 Abhyankar Receives Honorary Degree Message from the Head New Faces in the Department Visiting Faculty Math Profs Host Conference Purdue Profs Participate in Project NExT Interview with Michael Golomb Undergraduate News Math Advisory Council 1998-99 Outstanding TAs Grad Student inducted into Teaching Academy John Purdue Returns! Editors and Contributors Math PUrview Home Page Math Department Home Page	The Math PUrview - Winter 1999 Editor: Sally Goeke   goeke@math.purdue.edu Editorial Office: 1395 Mathematical Sciences Bldg. West Lafayette, IN 47907-1395 Phone: (765) 494-1908 Fax: (765) 494-0548 http://www.math.purdue.edu/ Department of Mathematics Head, Carl Cowen Associate Head, Y. L. L. Tong Graduate Studies, Steve Bell