Laura Escobar Vega, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, received a $172,750 grant from the National Science Foundation to study interactions between Newton-Okounkov bodies, cluster algebras, and orbit closures. The project aims to understand various aspects of the interplay between combinatorics and algebraic geometry for Newton-Okounkov bodies, symmetric orbit closures and subword complexes.
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Brad Warner, professor of pediatric surgery, 66
Julian Fleischman, associate professor emeritus, 91
William D. Owens, MD, professor emeritus of anesthesiology, 85