 Hello, this is Tom Haynes. I am Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Mathematics. It is an honor to be here with you tonight to celebrate the achievements of our graduate students in both teaching and research. This year was very competitive and it was especially difficult to determine the winners. Therefore, I ask that you please congratulate our excellent graduate students with an extra round of virtual applause. My name is Doran Levy and I am the Math Department Chair. It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this graduate award ceremony, Students, Families and Friends. We meet today to celebrate your wonderful achievements, whether they are related to your coursework, to research or even to teaching. Our math department is a big department. We have over 800 undergraduate math majors, but we teach every semester about 10,000 students. Between the three graduate programs, math, applied math and statistics, we have about 200 PhD students. Our PhD students are the crown jewel of our department. It is not an easy task to stick out in such a crowd, but you, award winners, manage to do so and this is very impressive. Congratulations. No one could have imagined at the beginning of the semester that we will be forced to move all our operations online due to a pandemic. Well, this has been an enormously challenging task. The transition did bring out a lot of good things, a collaborative spirit, many innovative ideas, but most of all it helped us to realize how much we all love our profession and our discipline, how much we all are passionate about math. For those of you that are graduating this semester, I would like to use the opportunity to thank you for everything you have done for the department and to wish you the best of luck in whatever you plan to do next. For those of you that are returning to Maryland next year, we look forward to working with you, teaching you, but also learning from you. Once campus resumes normal operations, please stop by my office and say hi. I would like to congratulate every single one of you in person. Congratulations, award winners. We are very, very proud of you. The Ralph P. Pass III Fellowship is a prize honoring students whose work has something to do with number theory. This year we have two winners. Each will receive a $500 cash prize. Ralph Pass got his PhD in number theory from the University of Maryland in 1978 with a thesis entitled On the Algebraic Independence of New Yorkville Numbers. After that he had a very varied career. He worked at NASA on Apollo missions, on the space shuttle. Later he worked in meteorology, hydrology, and on software for robot control. And before finally taking a position at Merrimack College, where he has been director of the observatory. Patrick and Marguerite Song Fellowship in Mathematics is our top internal award. This year we have two winners. Each winner receives one semester of TA relief from TA duties, which is the equivalent of about a $12,000 cash prize. Pat and Marguerite Song live in Petomac, Maryland. Originally Marguerite was an IT department project supervisor of a major U.S. airline. And Pat was a senior legal counsel with a multinational oil company. But they needed extra income to pay for a house. They started selling new skin face care products and did so well that they changed careers to work exclusively in this business. Both agree that new skin has changed their lives in many positive ways, including giving them the ability to support a research professorship in chemical and biomedical engineering and a fellowship in mathematics at the University of Maryland, where they met. Patrick received an MS in 1969 and a PhD in 1972 in chemical engineering from Maryland and Marguerite received a BS in 1970 in mathematics from Maryland. E. Lachman Graduate Student Award is a general achievement award open to graduate students in any area. This year we have two winners and each will receive a prize of $1,500 in cash. Mark Lachman received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1972 with a thesis entitled Singular Integrals and L1 Functions. He is president of first capital group incorporated in San Rafael, California, a mortgage brokerage company that he founded in 1983. He is also director of the Headlands Mortgage Company since 1998 and is a founding director and currently treasurer of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers North Bay Chapter. He has donated generously to both University of Maryland and to the University of California Berkeley where he got his bachelor's degree. The Angie Wiley dissertation fellowship is a university-wide distinction given to outstanding graduate students in the final stages of writing their dissertations. It gives them one semester of full academic support. Before retirement, Angie Wiley was professor of geology and provost at the University of Maryland. Before that, she held various administrative positions including interim dean of the graduate school. Under her guidance, the graduate school revised a number of policies such as the 20-hour work policy for graduate assistants, a leave of absence policy for childbirth and family illness, and the creation of a dissertation fellowship.