Professors Rowan Killip and Monica Visan have been selected for the Honorable Mention Outstanding Discovery Award for making the greatest research discovery in the Division of Physical Sciences in 2018-2019. Their major breakthrough was published in the Annals of Mathematics and describes the creation of a new method for tackling partial differential equations.
Candidates were nominated by their department and chosen by a committee of Distinguished Professors across the departments in Physical Science. Rowan and Monica will receive their award at the Inaugural Physicial Sciences Award Banquet on April 4, 2020 at the Luskin Conference Center.