Red Sock Award for DWC Member

DWC member Andrus Giraldo was one of the seven winners of the famous Red Sock Award for best poster at the biennial SIAM Conference on Applied Dynamical Systems, held with over 1000 participants in Snowbird, Utah last week. The award consists of a pair of red socks and a cash prize, handed over in person by Prof James A Yorke (the University of Maryland, famous for his paper “Period three implies Chaos”), who wears only red socks himself.

Nathan Pages manages to capture part of the award ceremony.

The only other time that we had such a success for the University of Auckland was in 2009 when Ph.D. student Emily Harvey won a Red Sock Award (see the report in the July 2009 issue of DSWeb Magazine. Claire Postlethwaite has also won a Red Sock Award, but it was in 2003, well before she became affiliated with the University of Auckland (this was reported in the first-ever DSWeb Magazine issue from October that year).

Congratulations Andrus!

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