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Awardees 2021

Seven students have been awarded the IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowship (BGF) grant to complete their PhD. BGF grants are funded by the generous donations from all the Breakthrough Prize winners. The program is the subject of an interesting article by Della Dumbaugh appeared in the September 2019 Issue of the AMS Notices. The award of full PhD grants goes to seven students from developing countries engaged in a PhD degree in the mathematical sciences in a developing country. 

The 2021 recipients are, listed in alphabetical order:

Hang Nguyen

Hang Nguyen is a Vietnamese PhD student at the Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam Academy of Sience and Technology nominated by her advisor Professor Truong Hoang. She plans to work on Cylinder In Fano Varieties.

Hong Duong Thi

Hong Duong Thi is a Vietnamese PhD student at the Thai Nguyen University of Sciences in Vietnam nominated by her advisor Professor Thuan Mai. She plans to work on Stability of Some Classes of System of Fractional Order. Differential Equations and Application in Control Theory.

Sayooj Aby Jose

Sayooj Aby Jose is an Indian PhD student at the Alagappa University in India nominated by his advisor Professor Raja Ramachandran. He plans to work on Mathematical Modeling on Population Dynamical Systems and Epidemiology.

Abd-semii'Oluwatosin-Enitan Owolabi

Abd-semii'Oluwatosin-Enitan Owolabi is a Nigerian PhD student at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban in South Africa nominated by his advisor Professor Oluwatosin Temitope Mewomo. He plans to work on Further investigation on Split Generalised Mixed Equilibrium Problem, Monotone Inclusion Problem and Fixed point Problem in Hilbert and Banach spaces.

Avulundiah Edwin Phiri

Avulundiah Edwin Phiri is a Zambian PhD student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa nominated by his advisor Professor Roumen Anguelov. He plans to work on Application of Data-Driven Methods to Dynamical Systems.

Edwiga Kishinda Renald

Edwiga Kishinda Renald is a Tanzanian PhD student at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania nominated by her advisor Professor Verdiana Grace Masanja. She plans to work on Mathematical Modelling of Lumpy Skin Disease with Controls in Pastoralist Societies in Tanzania.

Trinh Tung

Trinh Tung is a Vietnamese PhD student at Hanoi National University in Vietnam nominated by his advisor Professor Le Mau Hai. He plans to work on The log canonical threshold, the weighted log canonical threshold and applications.