Ryan Hynd Awarded American Mathematical Society Fellowship

Ryan Hynd, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Ryan Hynd, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship for the 2022–2023 academic year. The fellowship was established to further excellence in mathematics research and to help generate wider and sustained participation by Black mathematicians. Recipients are recognized for their achievements as well as their significant potential for further contributions to mathematics.

Hynd researches partial differential equations arising in mathematical models for fluid mechanics, control theory, and finance, as well as eigenvalue problems. During his fellowship year, he will visit the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden for collaborations in the fall and continue consulting with various mathematicians in the spring. He will investigate the Blaschke-Lebesgue problem, seeking to characterize minimum-volume bodies of constant width.

“This has been an outstanding problem in convex geometry for a number of years,” Hynd said. “My current hunch is that a time-dependent flow can be used to deform shapes in a way that leads to some new insight.”

In addition to his outstanding research, Hynd is a passionate teacher dedicated to promoting diversity in STEM. He helped create and coordinate the Bridge to Ph.D. program at Penn, and he was a research leader for the 2020 African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop (ADJOINT).

To read the full AMS release, click here.

 

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