06-01-95 Two Professors Receive Sloan Fellowship

OHIO STATE RESEARCHERS RECEIVE SLOAN FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS 

     COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two assistant professors at The Ohio State 
University have been selected to receive $30,000 Sloan research 
fellowships. 

     Klaus Honscheid, an assistant professor of physics, and Ilya 
Zakharevich, an assistant professor of mathematics, were awarded 
the two-year grants by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New 
York. 

     The Sloan Research Fellowship Program has awarded more than 
$68 million to more than 3,000 researchers since 1955.  The 
grants are administered by each fellow's institution.   

     The fellows choose their own field of study and are able to 
employ the grants in a wide variety of ways to further their 
research. 

     Honscheid, 35, of Worthington, plans to use the grant to 
further his study of elementary particles, in particular the 
decay of heavy quarks. 

     "I am involved in experiments that might shed some light on 
what accounts for the enormous preponderance - crucial for the 
existence of the universe - of matter over anti-matter," he said. 

     Honscheid was educated at the University of Bonn in Germany 
and has been at Ohio State since 1993. 

     Zakharevich, 33, of Columbus, will use the fellowship to 
further his study of the unpredictability of integrable systems 
in mathematics.   

     "When you do not expect something to happen, but it does, 
usually it means there are some hidden reasons," Zakharevich 
said.  "I find some hidden reasons for integrable systems." 

     Zakharevich received a bachelor's degree from Moscow State 
University and his doctorate from the Institute for Problems in 
Mechanics in Moscow.  He has been at Ohio State since September, 
1994. 

     Candidates for the Sloan Research Fellowship Program are 
nominated by department chairs and other senior scholars familiar 
with their talents.  More than 400 nominations for this year's 
award were reviewed by a committee of scientists representing 
American universities, the National Institutes of Health, and 
other institutions. 
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Contact:  Klaus Honscheid (614) 292-3287 
          Ilya Zakharevich (614) 292-2789 
Written by: Kelli Whitlock (614) 292-9475


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