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- Earlier this August, Anne Dougherty was presented with the Doug Faires award during the Mathematical Association of America (MCM) annual meeting- the 2018 MathFest. She received this award for her years of dedicated participation, recruitment, and
- On July 19, 2018, Applied Mathematics professor, Mark Ablowitz (pictured on the left), received an honorary Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. The honorary
- On August 23rd, the Applied Math Department first-year graduate students were busy learning and preparing for their new TA positions. During the meeting, each new TA presented a previously prepared and practiced five-minute
- Armeen Taeb graduated from ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è four years ago (2013) with undergraduate degrees in both Electrical Engineering (EE) and Applied Mathematics. He has since been working toward his PhD at Caltech Electrical Engineering Department, and expects
- In 2015 Dr. Meredith Plumley successfully competed for a NASA Earth and Space Science Graduate Fellowship, which was used to support her dissertation research. Now, Dr. Plumley has been awarded the 2018 AGU Donald L. Turcotte Award for outstanding
- Dr. Meiss, Professor of Applied Mathematics, is one of ten principle investigators (PIs) awarded a prestigious grant from the Simons Foundation to research optimal stellarator designs. The Simons Grant will be $2million USD a year for four years.The
- This year, a record number of 20,602 teams from across the world competed in the 34th annual International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM). From February 8th through February 12th (only 4 days), each team of 3 students selected a problem
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) aims to recognize outstanding graduate students in STEM fields by awarding each honoree $34,000 a year for the next three years. This year, the NSF received 12,000
- This year the Applied Math Department had 27 BS, 10 BS/MS, 12 MS, and 7 PhD students graduate. Many graduates have found work in the industry as data scientists or researchers (for laboratories including the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the