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Professors Steve Shkoller and Mariel Vazquez have been named fellows of the American Mathematical Society, among 52 mathematical scientists in the 2020 class of fellows, selected for outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and use of mathematics.

The society honored Shkoller for contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations, fluid dynamics and free-boundary problems. “Of particular interest is the motion of fluid interfaces and the finite-time singularity formation of these interfaces, such as breaking ocean waves,” he told Dateline ��������.

Besides his appointment in the Department of Mathematics, Shkoller is an affiliate of the �������� Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute. In 2017, he ran an international summer school at ��������’ Bodega Marine Laboratory, on the topic of mathematical analysis of water waves, and more such schools are planned.

“My recent work is also on the problem of shock waves and the first proof detailing how they form (mathematically) in fluids in three space dimensions (the physical world we live in),” he said.

Vazquez, who has appointments in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, was honored for contributions in research and outreach at the interface of topology and molecular biology, and for service to the mathematical community, in particular to underrepresented groups. Vazquez’s research uses mathematical topology to explore fundamental questions about DNA structure and function.

She is the faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science, or CAMPOS.

Professor Emeritus Kenneth Joy and Professor Kwan-Liu Ma of the Department of Computer Science are new inductees into the IEEE Visualization Academy, joining 30 others in the academy’s second annual induction ceremony. The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, part of the IEEE Computer Society, established the academy as the highest and most prestigious honor in the field of visualization.

Good news from the American Musicological Society’s annual meeting:

●︎ Anna Maria Busse Berger, distinguished professor, elected an honorary member, a status accorded long-standing members of the society who have made outstanding contributions to furthering its stated object and whom the society wishes to honor. The society recognized Busse Berger for creating “an innovative and original body of scholarship reflecting a lifelong commitment to understanding the role of memory in the transmission, performance and composition of music in Europe before the early modern era and in early 20th-century Africa.”

●︎ Carol Hess, professor, recipient of the AMS Teaching Award, which honors “an exceptional pedagogical resource for musicology” — in this case, her 2018 book, Experiencing Latin American Music. Hess’ citation states, in part: “Her narrative weaves together musics past and present with numerous cultures. Rather than chronology or geography, Experiencing Latin American Music is organized topically around experiences of film, musical elements, religion, identities, the body, politics, classical music and globalization. ... As Hess argues, her text will ‘urge you to pursue history in [a different] way.’”

●︎ Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’08, recipient of the Ruth A. Solie Award for co-editing Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America. Alonso-Minutti is an associate professor of music at the University of New Mexico.

●︎ Serena Yang, doctoral candidate, first �������� student to receive a Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, given to graduate students who belong to historically underrepresented groups.

More music honors:

●︎ Professor Kurt Rohde, appointed the artistic director of the Composers Conference, founded in 1945 and which describes itself as a pioneer in the performance of new w