2024 Rudy Horne Recipient: Katerina Knyazeva

Aug. 18, 2024

The Department of Applied Mathematics is thrilled to announce that Katerina Knyazeva has been awarded the 2024 Rudy Horne Memorial Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship was established to support students who, “through their presence in the department, contribute to the diversity of the Department of Applied Mathematics and of the campus,...

DARPA Innovation Fellow: Dr. Evan Gorman

May 20, 2024

Dr. Evan Gorman (pictured on the left with Associate Professor Manuel Lladser), a recent Applied Mathematics Ph.D. graduate, has been awarded a Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA) Innovation Fellowship in Arlington, VA. The position, which begins in July, is a two-year fellowship that is aimed towards supporting early...

SIAM Student Paper Prize Recipient: Dr. Heather Lynn Cihak

May 20, 2024

Spring Applied Mathematics Ph.D. graduate Dr. Heather Lynn Cihak recently received the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Paper Prize . This prestigious award is given to authors of the best papers published in SIAM journals and includes a monetary prize, a certificate, and a special paper session...

Keith Julien Memorial

April 19, 2024

Friday, April 19 th , 2024 In memory of Keith Julien: June 12 th , 1965 - April 14 th , 2024 Keith Julien Departmental Memorial recording (Passcode: r4rv$*.j)

Sabina Adhikari Wins 2024 Dynamics Days Best Poster Award

Jan. 27, 2024

In January, Applied Mathematics PhD student Sabina Adhikari won an award for the best poster at the 2024 Dynamics Days conference at UC Davis. Sabina’s poster is titled “Oscillatory and chaotic synchronization behavior in coupled oscillator systems with higher order interactions, community structure, and phase lags”. The Dynamics Days webpage...

Special Colloquium: 2024 Applied Mathematics Graduate Recruitment

Jan. 19, 2024

Join the 2024 Annual APPM Spring Poster Session ECCS 201 + Kile and Judy Morgan Foyer 3:30 pm: Special Colloquium Speakers, Tomoko Matsuo and Juan Restrepo, begin talks 4:30 pm: Dinner service opens (cocktail style) and the Poster Session starts 6:30 pm: Closing If you would like to present a...

Professor David Bortz Awarded the National Institutes of Health's Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

Nov. 27, 2023

Last month, Applied Mathematics’s own Professor David Bortz received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), which includes $1.88 million of support. MIRA, according to NIH, was established to better distribute NIGMS funding by “providing investigators with greater stability and flexibility, thereby enhancing scientific productivity and...

Professor James Curry Part of 5G Hidden Operation though Securing Traffic (GHOST)

Nov. 27, 2023

Recently, the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program awarded $5 million to the 5G Hidden Operation though Securing Traffic (GHOST) team (shown left) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which includes Applied Mathematics’s own Professor James Curry. The purpose of GHOST is to eliminate the possibility of external organizations...

2023 Rudy Horne Recipient: Ari Geisler

Oct. 9, 2023

The Department of Applied Mathematics recently announced their 2023 recipient of the prestigious Rudy Horne Memorial Fellowship – Ari Geisler. Ari is a first year Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics, who graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics. Ari explained his motivation to study applied mathematics...

Applied Mathematics Joins Math Alliance's Graduate Program Group

Aug. 14, 2023

Beginning this academic year, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program will join the Math Alliance Graduate Program Group (GPG). The Math Alliance was created in 2001 as a collaboration between the Iowa State Regents universities and a few Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Today, the GPG has over 40 programs...

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