Purdue VIGRE Credits
The VIGRE program has been discontinued. Although these webpages are still made available for historical interest, the information available should be considered out of date.
The creation of the Purdue joint Math/Stat NSF VIGRE proposal was co-piloted by Carl Cowen, then Head of the Math Department, and Mary Ellen Bock, Head of the Statistics Department. A feature that is unique to the Purdue program is the cross fertilization between mathematics and statistics and the ease of connecting graduate students and postdocs to inderdisciplinary topics that such a coalition brings. Mary Ellen Bock also organizes and runs the VIGRE Liftoff Seminar in the fall semesters.
David Drasin chaired the VIGRE Committee charged with overseeing the program during its first two years. He also ran the Summer REU programs in 2001 and 2002 with characteristic gusto and came up with the idea of holding the joint REU day with neighboring universities at the end of each summer.
David Drasin also coauthered our GAANN proposal with David Goldberg (pictured below), and together, they ran the GAANN seminar.
Graduate Chairs
The Graduate Chairs have been deeply involved with recruiting graduate students and making the changes in the graduate program that the VIGRE grant has made possible.
Other members of the Graduate Committee:
1998-2001
L. Lempert, A. Sa Barreto, W. Heinzer, J. Smith, J. S. P. Wang, S. K. Yeung
2001-2002
J. Brown, Z. Cai, W. Heinzer, B. Shipley, S. K. Yeung
Award winning teachers, Carl Cowen, David Moore, and J. J. Price, organized and ran the Brown Bag Lunchtime Teaching Seminar 2000-2001 to foster creative and innovative techniques for the teaching of college mathematics.
The Math/Stat VIGRE Committee 2000-2002
David Drasin and Steve Bell (all pictured higher above) also served on the committee. David Drasin chaired the committe 2000-2001. Steve Bell will chair it beginning Fall 2002.
Math and Stat faculty who gave recruiting lectures at other universities (Where they went)
- Shreeram Abhyankar
- Rodrigo Bañuelos
- Mary Ellen Bock
- Johnny Brown
- Larry Brown
- Carl Cowen
- Bruce Craig
- Rebecca Doerge
- David Drasin
- David Goldberg
- Bill Heinzer
- Fabio Milner
- László Lempert
- Alex Richman
- Frederi Viens
Faculty Advisors of VIGRE or GAANN Graduate Fellows
- Shreeram Abhyankar
- Donu Arapura
- Rodrigo Bañuelos
- Steve Bell
- Mary Ellen Bock
- Johnny Brown
- John Cushman
- Rebecca Doerge
- David Drasin
- Zhilan Feng
- David Goldberg
- Bill Heinzer
- László Lempert
- Joe Lipman
- Jin Ma
- Kenji Matsuki
- Jim McClure
- T.-T. Moh
- Steve Samuels
- Jeff Smith
- Bernd Ulrich
- Frederi Viens
- Allen Weitsman
Faculty Mentors of VIGRE Postdocs
- Steve Bell
- Dave Catlin
- Carl Cowen
- Alexandre Eremenko
- László Lempert
- Jim McClure
- Jean Rubin
- Clarence Wilkerson
Faculty (and VIGRE Postdoc) directors of REU projects
- Steve Bell
- Larry Brown
- Carl Cowen
- John Cushman
- Marius Dadarlat
- David Drasin
- David Goldberg
- Eric Hall
- Alexander Richman
- Jean Rubin
- Allen Weitsman
- Clarence Wilkerson
- Aaron N.-K. Yip
Speakers in the VIGRE Liftoff seminar
- Donu Arapura
- Rodrigo Bañuelos
- Patti Bauman
- Steve Bell
- Mary Ellen Bock
- Larry Brown
- Bruce Craig
- Marius Dadarlat
- Burgess Davis
- Rebecca Doerge
- David Drasin
- Alex Eremenko
- Zhilan Feng
- Joseph Lipman
- Jin Ma
- George McCabe
- Richard Penney
- Dan Phillips
- Alexander Richman
- Jean Rubin
- Tom Selke
- Freydoon Shahidi
- Brooke Shipley
- Katy Simonsen
- Frederi Viens
- Clarence Wilkerson
Graduate Chairs in Statistics
- Shanti Gupta (deceased)
- Bill Studden
- Rebecca Doerge, Admissions Chair
Undergraduate Chairs
- Jim McClure (Math)
- David Moore (Stat)
REU coordinators
- David Drasin
- Donu Arapura
Math Club Advisors
- Kenji Matsuki
- David Goldberg
Putnam Exam Coach and Putnam Seminar Organizer
- T.-T. Moh
Multicultural Middle School Science Program
- Regina Todd Hicks (Science)
- Danny Breidenbach (Math)
Imagination Station Math Exhibit
- Donatella Danielli
Teacher training program directors
- Rita Saerens (Math)
- John Deely (Stat)
Problem of the Week
- Michael Golomb, Chair (Math)
- Michael Drazin (Math)
- Lou Cote (Stat)
- Sam Wagstaff (CS)
Math Dept representative to the annaul Math Counts exam for middle school children
- Dave Catlin
New management
Leonard Lipshitz,
Head Math 7/2002
Antonio Sa Barreto,
new Math Grad co-chair
The new 2002 VIGRE Committee
- Donu Arapura
- Steve Bell, Chair
- Mary Ellen Bock
- Bruce Craig
- Larry Brown
- Leonard Lipshitz
- Jim McClure
- Dan Phillips
- Antonio Sa Barreto
- Allen Weitsman