Descriptions of Scholarships

Math Department Scholarships and Awards

The Math Department gives the following scholarships and awards every year, 1) Hoggatt prize, 2) Fuller scholarship, 3) Dieckmann scholarship, 4) Math Department scholarship, 5) Morton award, (to a prospective teacher), 6) Byrd scholarship, 7) Bradshaw award (to the best Math Dept. TA), 8) Problem of the Week prizes, 9) Putnam Exam prizes, and 10) the Billik prize in Analysis. The Math Dept. is blessed that the gifts of past donors have allowed us to fund such a variety of scholarships and awards. We encourage the past recipients of these awards to make contributions to support the Franklyn B. Fuller scholarship fund, the Richard H. C. Dieckmann scholarship fund, the Lucille R. Morton scholarship fund, the Paul Byrd scholarship fund, the Kenneth Bradshaw scholarship fund, the Problem of the Week prize fund, and the Putnam Exam prize fund. Making contributions to these funds will allow us to offer larger awards (or more awards) in the future to the many deserving recipients who apply for Math Department scholarships each year. The 2008 scholarship and awards winners were 1^st place POW undergrad division Siddhartha Kanungo, 1^st place POW grad division, Michael Pejic, Putnam Prize winners, Siddhartha Kanungo 1^st place, Cuong Dong 2^nd place, Phuong Ho 3^rd place, Hoggatt prize Siddhartha Kanungo, Bradshaw scholarship Simon Ward, Math Dept. scholarship Chris Fowler, Fuller scholarships Anita Chinthalapati and Peter Hansen, Dieckmann scholarship Sejal Dharia, Byrd scholarship Michael Pejic, Morton scholarship Leslie Stamm, Billik prize Jason Smith. This year our scholarship winners will all receive awards of $500.

Descriptions of Scholarships

The Department of Mathematics Scholarships were first awarded in 1983. Each year, mathematics faculty members contribute to this fund to honor academic achievement and encourage further academic studies.

Past Winners
Nita Barve Nathalie Grima	2004
TuAnh Nguyen	2005
Michael Vartanian	2006
Masayo Sato	2007
Chris Fowler	2008

Math/CS Dept. Scholarships

1983 Math & CS scholarships Alan Lam, Paul Farias, Sam Tam, Han Kee Tan, and Michael Timpano-Perrotta

1984 Math/CS scholarship Katherine Sarin

1985 Math & CS scholarships, Carole Doan and Noriko Hayashi

1986 Math & CS scholarships, Jackson Shyu and Jenny Cheung

1987 Math & CS scholarships, Bobbi Barry, Rohitkumar Desai, Frances Huang, Toan Huynh, Nhi Lam, and Radhika Sugavanam

1988 Math & CS scholarships, Gary Wilson, Heduh Yaghmai, Rebecca Wahl, Todd Hansen

1989 Math and CS scholarships Laurence Dang, Julie Mitchell

1990 Math/CS Dept. scholarships Grant Martin, Minh Nguyen, Cheuk Kin Wong, Zhang Yang

1991 ???

1992 Math/CS Dept. scholarships Tanya Boboricken, Jeffrey Stride, Wei Zhang

1993 Math and CS scholarships, Nui Ming Chu, Ahmad Yousef Darwiche, Chieko Honma, Mark Hessenflow, Silvia Lopez, Lisa Villanueva, Yi-Wen Wang

1994 Math & CS scholarships, Kin Ling Cheng, Teresa L. Chiu, Loren Vanderbeek, Aye Aye Mya Ma, Sanja Petrovic

1995 Math and CS scholarships, Mei-Wern Chang, Elizabeth S. Milanovich, Jeffrey P. O’Connell, Savitha Sathyanarayana, Sandeep Venkatesh Shenoy, Shubhra Sitholey, Sherilynn Skiba

1996 Math and CS Dept. scholarships, MeiWern Cheng, Lily Dalton, Annapoorani Ganesan, Anna Strong, Colin Anderson, Farideh Dormishian, Debbie Gonzalez, Cathy Humphreys, Hongpin Lin, Xiaomin Qu, Sandeep Shenoy, Saraswati Tumuluri, Omobola Wusu, Jiaoyang Zhou

1997 Math/CS Dept. scholarships William Browning, Farideh Dormishian, Annapoorani Ganesa, Samantha Mbozi-Harding, Christopher Taylor, Ashima Verma, Dongming Yao, Sandy Zhang, Jiao Yang Zhou

1998 Math & CS Dept. scholarships, Yin Chen, Fariden Dormishan, Hang Thanh Thu Ngo, Bangtam Thi Nguyen, and Nikunjkumar Patel

1999 Math & CS Dept scholarships, Dawn Chang, Danielle Hogan, Kwai-Hing Man, Hang Ngo, Bangtam Nguyen, Anna Strong, Angela Tran

2000 Math/CS Dept. scholarships Jennifer Aparisi, Nadia Ghamrawi, Kwai-Hing Man, Mark Mitchell, Kelvin Shum, Anna Strong, Angela Tran, Abhinand Vase

2001 Math/CS Dept. scholarships Sudha Duvuru, Tim Fish, Lynh Pham, Harakchand Vira, James Dimaggio, Hong Li, Kwai-Hing Man, Kristanto Oetmo

The Morton Future Teacher Award is sponsored by Lucille Morton, who began her studies at SJSU in 1943 in mathematics. She graded papers for the current chair of the department (Howard Myers). Her maiden name was Rafferty. She also got a masters degree from this department writing her thesis under Vern Hoggatt. She taught at Notre Dame High School and also at Evergreen Elementary. She subbed at SJCC in the evening and also taught at Campbell High School in Gilroy. She raised two boys and two girls and lives in Pacific Grove. This award is renewable up to 3 years.

Past Winners
Dashiell Fryer Rosalind Le	2004
Khanh Nguyen	2005
Khanh Nguyen	2006
Paul Fuller	2007
Leslie Stamm	2008

The Richard C. Dieckmann Scholarship was first awarded in 1983. Professor Dieckmann was a highly regarded member of the mathematics faculty here from 1946-1972. Richard Henry Cabot Dieckmann held four degrees from U.C. Berkeley, ranging from an A.B. in mathematics and French to a PhD in mathematics, with an interpolated law degree. Upon his death at age 78 in 1982, he endowed a scholarship fund by a gift from his estate to reward and encourage academic excellence by a math major.

Past Winners		Gene Yao	1992	Rachel Burnsed Nadia Ghamrawi Yim Lee	2002
Katherine Sarin	1983	Yufeng Chung Marlene Dwyer Howard Lin	1993	Tuanh Nguyen Alina Alt Faun Maddux	2003
Patricia Dowden Nam Duc Nguyen	1984	Thu Ton Aida Youssef	1994	Siu Ming Choy Kim Dang	2004
Seana Hogan Jackson Shyu	1985	Janet C. Glosup Marc S. Knobel	1995	Uldarico Muico	2005
Mark McKinzie Radhika Sugavanam	1986	Theresa Chiu Randolph Schmidt	1996	Alex Jing Wei Huang Senorina Vazquez	2006
Letitia Jensen Fransesca Wong	1987	Yin Chen Janet Glosup Hang Tran Linda Yang	1997	Wilson Florero Abera Jiru	2007
Francesca W. Budiman Karen Leann Godard Y. Jenny Koo	1988	Amy Lynn Burns Paul Sumares Ashima Verma Liming Xiang	1998	Sejal Dharia	2008
Phuong Nguyen Hedieh Yaghmai	1989	Denise Nguyen Amidha Shyamsukha Paul Sumares Yanhong Zhao	1999		2009
Isabelle C. Coja Scott Corcoran Vandana Mundy Richard O'Neill Tho Tran	1990	Robert Chee Akarsha Kumar Bangthan Thi Nguyen Sandy Nguyen	2000
William Dunlap Allan Gale Julie Mitchell Sylvia Valdes Wei Zhang	1991	Nadia Ghamrawi Mark Mitchell	2001

The Kenneth C. Bradshaw Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant has been given each year since 1993 to the most outstanding teacher among the graduate students. Kenneth C. Bradshaw was a gifted teacher and an Associate Chair in the Department.. As associate chair, he was best known for the many small, but mighty, steps he took to improve the quality of life for students. The department faculty endowed this award in his honor, after he retired.

Past Winners		Linda Roper Loretta Silverman	1999	Faun Maddux	2005
Elizabeth S. Milanovich	1994	Anh Minh Nguyen	2000	Viet Nguyen	2006
Colin T. Anderson	1995	David Barnes	2001	Tracy Holsclaw	2007
Marlene Dwyer	1996	Tim Fish	2002	Simon Ward	2008
Ken Nowak	1997	James Kittock	2003
Janet Glosup Jose Trujillo	1998	Tuanh Gia Nguyen	2004

The Franklin B. Fuller Scholarship fund was established in 1977 to honor the memory of a past chair of the mathematics department. Franklin Belmont Fuller, whose father was police chief in San Jose in 1915. Affectionately known as a “prune picker” due to his local roots, Professor Fuller also has local roots in the Department having earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at San Jose State in the 1940's. He then got a Ph.D. degree at Stanford and worked at NASA Ames Research Center from the late 50's until 1970. He maintained ties with the department throughout his career by teaching here part-time while working for NASA. After retiring from NASA in 1970, Professor Fuller came to teach full-time at San Jose State, and became department chair in 1974. After his death in 1977, many generous contributions were made to this scholarship fund by his coworkers at NASA as well as his friends in this department.

Past Winners		Connie Tak-Yin Cheung Sai Ming Fung Pream Jayanshakar Nhi A. Lam	1989	Faun Hammon Elo Leung	2001
Katherine McClain	1978	Tanya Boboricken Susan L. Hansen Yu-Lin Tai Allen K. S. Yuen	1990	Ramanjit Sahi Sundararajan Arabhi Stephanie Bagneris	2002
Daniel Chenet	1979	Sayah Beheshti Tanya Boboricken Suhair Halteh Craig Hamilton Alice Lee Connie Schlechter	1991	Claude Cassano	2003
Ronald Bretschneider Richard Daniels	1980	Wenging Fang Daniel Lawson Zhenfang Zhang	1992	Uldarico Muico	2004
Michael Lai Daniel Belshaw	1981	Zhang Wei Wenquing Fang Karl Yorston	1993	Marian Hofer Maheen Khan	2005
Marilyn J. Ciraulo Karel Zikan	1982	Gretchen Ann Ehlers Marc Knobel Juliekara Techasaratoole Winston Wheeler	1994	Katherine Shelley	2006
Paul Farias Alan C. Lam Michael Timpanaro-Perrotta Sam Tam Han Kee Tan	1983	Colin Anderson Steven Shing-Kai Cheung Tae Ho Kim Jonny K. Lo	1995	Ryan Flarity Katherine Shelley	2007
	1984	Janet Glosup Parisa Safa	1996	Anita Chinthalapati Peter Hansen	2008
Christopher S. O'Connor Bud Chiu Kwan	1985	Bangtam Nguyen Anna Strong	1997
Christopher S. O'Connor Barry Marshall	1986	Annapoorani Ganesan Xiuhui Sylvia Li Tai Manh Nguyen Linda Yang	1998
Jeff Johnson Nam Hoang Nguyen	1987	Joseph Chan Tamminh Tran Sandy Zhang	1999
Nam Hoang Nguyen Nguyen Dinh Le	1988	Hui Chen Rishi Manocha Lifeng Shen	2000

The Paul F. Byrd Award was first awarded in 1994. Professor Byrd was a distinguished applied mathematician and faculty member in the Department of Mathematics for 30 years. He is best remembered for his knowledge of applied mathematics, his ability to learn independently, his ability and love for solving monthly problems, his readiness and willingness to transmit his knowledge to students and colleagues, and his capacity to fight for social justice. His former student, Kent Okasaki was the prime instigator in establishing the scholarship in honor of his thesis advisor using his stock from his HP stock option plan to endow the scholarship. Professor Byrd’s family and colleagues have also contributed to the establishment of this annual award in his memory.

Past Winners		Mark Mitchell	1999	Matthew Lewinski	2005
Gene J. Yau	1994	Paul Boone	2000	Cuong Dong	2006
Sanja Petrovic	1995	Ramanjit Sahi Lei Wang	2001	Siddhartha Kanungo	2007
Sanja Petrovic	1996	David Barnes Rafaello Colasante	2002	Michael Pejic	2008
Sean Bohaty	1997	Tuanh Nguyen Alina Alt Faun Maddux Ivan Zaigralin Xinrong Liu Felipe Ibarra	2003
Guillermo Paniagua	1998	Maheen Khan	2004

The Hoggatt Award for Outstanding Research Potential is the most distinguished of all of our scholarship awards. Since 1981, this prize has been awarded each spring to a graduating senior with the greatest research potential, based on faculty recommendations. This award is named for Verner E. Hoggatt, a former faculty member founded a mathematical journal called the Fibonacci Quarterly. He supervised a record number of 39 theses in the department. (39 by the way is 3 times the 7^th Fibonacci number.) One of his students, Marjorie Bicknell-Johnson writes that Vern Hoggatt particularly encouraged young women in mathematics. This, despite the fact that he made her rewrite her first paper claiming it sounded as if it were written for the Ladies Home Journal. The Fibonacci Association funds this award every year in honor of its founder.

Past Winners		Tanya Boboricken	1990	Danielle Hogan	2000
Michael Lai	1981	Julie Mitchell	1991	Rose George	2001
Karel Zikan	1982	Jeffrey Stride	1992	Charles O'Sullivan	2002
Theresa Burkes	1983	Frederic Bourgoin	1993	Quiang Wang	2003
Dung Le Hoang	1984	Mark L. Hessenflow	1994	Claude Cassano	2004
Seana Hogan	1985	Aida Youssef	1995	Dashiell Fryer	2005
Mark McKinzie	1986	Sarah Kong	1996	Weitao Wu	2006
Nam Hoang Nguyen	1987	Sanja Petrovic	1997	Cuong Dong	2007
Y. Jenny Koo	1988	Angela Tran	1998	Siddhartha Kanungo	2008
Brain Tvedt	1989	Julie Varner	1999

The Putnam Exam Awards were first awarded in 1985. Awards are given for SJSU students participating in and doing well on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, which is a yearly nationwide problem solving competition held in the United States and Canada.

Past Winners		1^st Daniel Lawson 2^nd Julie Mitchell 3^rd Christopher Jang	1990
1^st Mark McKinzie 2^nd Allen Chang	1985	1^st Christopher Jang	1992
1st Stewart Kramer 2^nd Tom Hicks 2^nd Mark McKinzie 2^nd Karl Volk	1986	1^st Cuong Dong	2006
1st Kevin Whyte 2^nd Nam Hoang Nguyen	1987	1^st Cuong Dong 2^nd Siddhartha Kanungo	2007
1st Brian Tvedt 2^nd David Jorgenson 3^rd Daniel Lawson	1988	1^st Siddhartha Kanungo 2^nd Cuong Dong 3^rd Phuong Ho	2008
1^st Larry Z. Buzl 2^nd Brian Tvedt	1989