03/08/2010 - 12:00am

Professor Dick Palais, of the Mathematics Department in UC Irvine, jointly with his collaborator artist Luc Benard, are the winners of the first place of the 2009 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge prize. This is the second time that Professor Palais and his collaborator Benard have won this prize, the first time was in 2006. Please see the ScienceMag and NSF websites below for more information about the award.

ScienceMag.org Brief Article
ScienceMag.org Full-text Article
New York Times Article
NSF Announcement