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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...

APPM Research Associate Daniel Messenger selected for Heidelberg Laureate Forum

July 24, 2023

Recently, Applied Mathematics Research Associate Daniel Messenger was selected to attend the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), a yearly networking conference for esteemed scientists and upcoming young researchers in mathematics and computer science. The HLF occurs during the final full week in September, and Dan will be attending the conference...

Daniel Larremore -- 2023 Erdős–Rényi Prize Recipient

July 14, 2023

Last week, Applied Mathematics doctoral alumnus and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Daniel Larremore received the 2023 Erdős–Rényi Prize of the Network Science Society . Each year at the International Conference on Network Science, an early-career researcher is given the prize to highlight extraordinary work in network...

Professor James Meiss Named 2023 SIAM Fellow

April 17, 2023

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently announced their Class of 2023 fellows , which included Applied Mathematics’s Professor James Meiss “For contributions to the understanding of the onset of chaos and transport in Hamiltonian and volume-preserving dynamical systems.” Meiss received his Ph.D in Physics from the University...

APPM in Colorado -- Alex McManus

March 13, 2023

Recently, Project Bridge Colorado, AMC's Postdoctoral Association and the AMC chapter of SACNAS hosted STEM Day at the Colorado State Capitol. The stated goals of the events were to “(1) give early stage investigators practice in explaining their research to lay audiences, (2) allow local Coloradans to learn about the...

Special Colloquium: 2023 Applied Mathematics Graduate Recruitment

Feb. 20, 2023

Join the 2023 Annual APPM Spring Poster Session Friday, March 10 th , 2023 from 3:30-6:30pm 2nd Floor Rec Center Ice Rink Overlook Meeting Room (RECIN) Event Schedule: 3:30 pm: Special Colloquium Speakers, Adrianna Gillman and Ian Grooms, begin talks 4:30 pm: Dinner service opens (cocktail style) and the Poster...

Spring 2023 Applied Mathematics Commencement Ceremony

Feb. 10, 2023

Join us for the Department of Applied Mathematics 2023 Commencement Ceremony at the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. Date: May 11th, 2023 Time: 12pm-3pm MDT Location: The Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre Spring 2023 Graduation Slides Spring 2023 Graduation Program Graduating students will receive a survey this spring from the department regarding...

Professional Master’s Information Session

Jan. 9, 2023

Date: Friday, March 24th, 2023; 9:00am - 10:00am. Registration link: https://grad.apply.colorado.edu/register/?id=ddcfdcad-4a9a-44c8-88a0-dd04311ed890 Host: Professional Master’s Program Director Brian Zaharatos and Associate Director Judith Law. Description of the event: Our Professional Master’s degree joins real world collaboration with rigorous coursework administered by Applied Mathematics faculty renowned in their specializations. The program is...

David Bortz and Stephen Becker collaborating on $15 million clean energy project

Nov. 7, 2022

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently provided $15 million to a project pushing the development of nuclear energy as a reliable form of clean energy. To achieve this goal of sustainable nuclear energy, the required physics and computation of nuclear fusion needs to be better understood, which has created an...

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