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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...