2007-08
We want to thank Suzanne Hiatt for a very large donation in honor of Math Department alumni Arthur Hiatt. Arthur Hiatt received a BA Math in 1956 and an MA Math in 1964 from San Jose State as well as a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1974. He became a professor at Fresno State University until 1994 when he retired. Arthur Hiatt died in 2007. Thanks also to Madelyn T. Gould, Steve Leonard, and Carl Dumont who made generous contributions to the SJSU Tower Foundation’s Math Department Discretionary Account this year.
In addition, we thank emeritus faculty member Martin Billik who generously contributed money for a yearly prize to a student with notable accomplishments in classwork or research related to real or complex analysis, ordinary or partial differential equations, or numerical analysis. The first Billik prize in Analysis was awarded this year to Jason Smith for his research and classwork in Partial Differential Equations. Professor Billik was a member of the Math Dept. for 45 years and fully retired in 2007.
We also want to thank those who generously contributed to the Math Department’s Advancement Council Account including, Julie Mitchell and Sandy Zhang, Marilyn Blockus and Samih Obaid for their contributions to the Problem of the Week prize fund, Tim Hsu, Samih Obaid, and Linda Valdes who contributed money for the new magnetic picture display board in the main math department display case (special thanks to our webmaster Bem Cayco for her awesome pictures), and Ken Bradshaw who contributed money to a fund which supports a yearly award given to the Math department’s best TA.