Dr. Benjamin Call, a recent PhD graduate from our program, won a 2023 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation. Only 46 of these prestigious fellowships were awarded among all mathematicians in the United States.  See the full announcement on the NSF website: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=307487

Dr. Call received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dan Thompson in Spring 2022 and currently holds a research assistant professor position at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research interests include thermodynamic formalism, ergodic theory, and equilibrium states arising from geometric systems.  For more about his research, see his professional site: https://sites.google.com/view/benjamincall/research