News & Events

This upcoming Tuesday (Oct. 20), the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA), who our very own Dr. Eric Vance directs, will be celebrating LISA 2020 Day alongside the World Statistics Day and the International Year of Women in Statistics (#IYWSDS) and Data Science via a symposium. In a statement, LISA...

Recently, Applied Mathematics graduate student Alec Dunton and his team won the Graph Challenge as a part of his summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The GraphChallenge, as explained on the challenge’s website , is a curated and open scalable graph analysis competition which “encourages community approaches to developing...

This past week, the Department of Applied Mathematics announced the recipient of the Rudy Horne Memorial Fellowship: graduate student Serena DiLeonardo! Serena is a first year student in the Applied Mathematics graduate program who previously graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics along with a Master’s Degree in Environmental...

This week, Applied Mathematics doctoral candidate Rachel Robey received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, DOE CSGF for short. Rachel, who is a member of Daniel Appelö’s research group, was one of 26 doctoral researchers who were given the award to support and further their research in the...

This fall, the Department of Applied Mathematics recognizes two successful promotion cases within the department. Dr. Mark Hoefer has been promoted to Full Professor, while Dr. Zachary Zilpatrick has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations to Professor Hoefer and Associate Professor Kilpatrick on well deserved promotions!

This fall, the Professional Master’s Program in Applied Mathematics will welcome Dr. Judith Law to the Program as the Associate Director! On top of serving as the Associate Director, Dr. Law will join the Applied Mathematics faculty as an Instructor. As a researcher, Dr. Law is interested primarily in hierarchical...

Recently, the Applied Mathematics Graduate Committee voted to waive the requirement for prospective graduate students to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for the 2021 application cycle. This decision, driven by the Department’s continued pursuit of educational equity, impacts the applications of Professional MS applicants for Spring 2021 and Fall...

The Spring 2020 semester was an unprecedented semester with many challenges, roadblocks, and unexpected turns that led to an equally fulfilling and successful semester after rising to the occasion given the COVID-19 pandemic. The Applied Mathematics Department underwent critical changes after the announcement from the Chancellor , which directed the...

Update (6/15/20): This week, an article written in CU Boulder Today about Dr. Bortz's contributions to the Colorado COVID Modeling Team became their top news story. Original Article (5/25/20): In March, an interdisciplinary team was assembled by the state of Colorado to develop a model to help inform policy decisions...

This week, Applied Mathematics Professor James Meiss had his interdisciplinary work on solar flares highlighted in a College of Engineering & Applied Science article . Along with Thomas Berger , the director of the Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center, Professor Meiss assisted Professor Elizabeth Bradley from the Computer...