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Professor Mark Hoefer has been published in the esteemed physics journal Physical Review Letters. The journal publishes “short, high quality reports of significant and notable results in the full arc of fundamental and interdisciplinary physics research”. The publication, Observation of Dispersive Shock Waves, Solitons, and Their Interactions in Viscous Fluid...

The Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant Program aims to support cutting-edge research in the broad field of machine learning, including specific areas such as natural language processing, information retrieval, machine-translation and deep neural networks. In April 2015 they announced their first round of recipients and in October 2015 they announced...

Jacqueline Wentz has been awarded a 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to graduate students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The program received 17,000 applications and granted 2,000 awards. The fellowship provides $34,000 per year for three years...

Antony Pearson is an IQ Biology graduate student in the Applied Mathematics Department working with Associate Professor Manuel Lladser. He studies probabilistic mixture models where one or more components cannot be observed directly through data. A primary application of his work is using patterns of DNA methylation—heritable modifications to a...

Each year, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program awards six scholarships to Coloradans. The program aims to produce “a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in these fields.” Applied mathematics major Derek...

On the Christmas Eve of 2011, Mark Hoefer received an email linking one of his theories to experiments taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was a momentous occasion. During his time with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a postdoctoral fellow, Professor Hoefer and colleagues had proposed...

Ezio Iacocca is a post-doc at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, visiting the Applied Mathematics Department under the International post-doc grant given by the Swedish Research Council. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he studied current-induced waves generated in magnetic materials...

Xudan Luo is a visiting scholar with the Applied Mathematics Department from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She received her Master’s Degree in Pure Mathematics from Fujian University, and is expected to graduate with a PhD in Mathematics from HKUST in June 2016. Her current work...

The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has just published a book by Professor Bengt Fornberg titled, A Primer on Radial Basis Functions with Applications to the Geosciences. The textbook was co-authored with Dr. Natasha Flyer, who is an affiliated faculty member of APPM, a NCAR scientist, and Professor...

Maiden is a graduate student in the Applied Mathematics Department working in the Dispersive Hydrodynamics Lab with Applied Mathematics Assistant Professor Mark Hoefer. Her research combines asymptotic analysis, numerical simulation, modeling, and physical experiments in fluid dynamics. The system under study is a model of magma migration through the Earth's...