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Rodrigo Bañuelos appointed Interim Head of Department of Mathematics
Dean
Jeff Vitter announced that Professor Rodrigo Bañuelos has agreed
to serve as Interim Head of the Department of Mathematics, beginning in
mid-June. He will serve while Prof. Leonard Lipshitz is on sabbatical
leave for the Fall 2005 semester.
Rodrigo earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. He spent two years as a Bantrell Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and one year as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana before joining the Purdue Department of Mathematics in 1987. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1989 and to Professor in 1992.
Rodrigo’s research interests are in probability and its connections
to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. He was an NSF
Presidential Young Investigator from 1989 to 1994, he was elected a Fellow
of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2003, and in 2004 he received
the Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics. From 1998 to 2002, he served
on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Mathematical Science Research
Institute at Berkeley and is a current Board of Trustees member for the
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA. He is a member of
the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
and the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences
(SACNAS). He is a member of the Human Relations Commission for the City
of West Lafayette and a member of the Golden Apple Awards Selection Committee
for the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.
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