Professor Emeritus DeWitt Sumners, former chair of FSU’s Department of Mathematics, has been awarded the Microsoft Distinguished Visiting Fellowship to spend a month at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The institute brings together mathematical scientists from the United Kingdom and around the world to interact and research for extended periods. The month-long programs are centered around different themes. Sumners has been selected for the Topological Dynamics in the Physical and Biological Sciences program, to be held in late 2012.

The Isaac Newton Institute, founded in 1992, is the United Kingdom’s national research institute for mathematics. It is funded through many sources, including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the University of Cambridge. Sumners, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1967.