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  <title><![CDATA[Alumnus Wins Sigma-Xi Best Thesis Award]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>School of Mathematics former PhD student Alex Grigo is a recipient of the 2010 Sigma-Xi Best PhD thesis Award. Alex defended his thesis, &quot;Billiards and Statistical Mechanics&quot;, in April 2009, advisor&nbsp;<a href="https://d6.math.gatech.edu/users/bunimovh">Leonid Bunimovich</a>. Since July 2009, Alex has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada.</p>
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