Graduate Student Appreciation Week

A little history about this week in 1993, NAGPS established Graduate-Professional Student Appreciation Week (GPSAW) as a mechanism to support and appreciate graduate and professional students. Specifically, Graduate-Professional Student Appreciation Week seeks to emphasize the contributions, impact and value of graduate and professional students on campuses throughout the United States.

So from all the Applied Math Faculty, Staff, and Instructors we want to say Thank-you to our Graduate Students.

In honor of all our graduate students we will have cake Friday April 8, 2016 from 1pm-2:30pm, in the break room.  Please join us in saying thanks to all of our Graduate Students. 

Also all graduate students who stop by will be entered into a drawing for some COOL Applied Math Gear and Prizes!

We also want to take a moment to recognize a few students:

(This is by no means a complete list of all the wonderful things our Grads are up to, but it is a showcase of some recent accomplishments, the list is being updated as nominations are sent in.)

2016

Michelle Maiden:  Chancellor's Fellow, NSF Graduate Fellow, has mentored 5 undergraduates in research projects, dispersive hydrodynamics lab manager, on the executive committee for APPM's SIAM student chapter

Meredith Plumley:  NASA's Earth and Space Science Fellowship

Antony Pearson:  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Jacqueline Wentz: published the following paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.07.012

Harry Dudley: published the following paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1182-0

Jay Stotsky: paper accepted in the Journal of Computational Physics: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07326

Taisa Kushner: NSF Honorable Mention

Eric Kightley, Inom Mirzaev, John Nardini, & Jay Stotsky: gave talks and organized minisymposia at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology in Atlanta

Derek Driggs: Gold Water Fellowship 

Peter Wills: first publication "Deterministic drift instability and stochastic thermal perturbations of magnetic dissipative droplet solitons" is about to appear in Physical Review B!

Spring 2016 PhD Graduates: Ashar Ali, David Nieves, Anthony Wong, Ze Cheng, Lei Bao

Spring 2016 MS Graduates: Edward Yasutake, Benjamin Wiley, Allison Betley, Rachel Tutmaher, Hristina Kalcheva, Richard Schweizer, James Folberth

Spring 2016 BS/MS Graduates: Pawel Janas, Scott Fiedler, Branden Olson, Theordore Eberts

2015

Ben Southworth: NDSEG Fellowship recipient

Michelle Maiden: NSF Fellowship Recipient

Eric Knightly: NSF Fellowship Recipient

Jay Strosky: DOE Computationsal Science Graduate Fellowship Recipient

Ali Ashir : NASA Fellowship Recipient

John Nardini: NSF Honorable Mention

Inom Mirzaev and Professor David Bortz recently published a paper where Inom was the lead author.

Congratulations to our new Lead TAs Jessica Gronski and Gregor Robinson

A special Thanks to the current Lead TAs Peter Wills and Alyson Fox.

Thank you to Zach Mullen's for doing a great job coordinating all the Calc 2 workgroups.

A very special Thank you to all of the students that helped with Graduate Recruitment, especially all my repeat helpers: James Folberth, Jessica Gronski, and Tracy Babb!

Spring 2015 PhD graduates: Nathan Monnig, Sijia Hao

Tentative Summer 2015 graduate: Ruth Martin