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Applied Mathematics graduate student, Shay Gilpin, was awarded Best Student Presentation at the 23rd Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) Conference at the 2019 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting for her presentation titled "Reducing Representativeness Errors during Radio Occultation-Radiosonde Comparisons." This year’s...

Graduate Applied Mathematics Student, Zofia Stanley, was recently awarded the Figueroa Family Fellowship- a $1,500 scholarship given to students that have shown outstanding commitment to creating a diverse student body and improving the state of the world and its people. The university has awarded Zofia Stanley this fellowship to express...

Nancy Rodriguez was recently hired as an Assistant Professor in the Applied Mathematics department- this semester is her first semester here. Rodriguez has an impressive educational background; she attended graduate school at UCLA, did postdoctoral work at Standford, and was previously an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UNC Chapel Hill...

APPM student hosted podcast, Probably Novel , will be back on air this weekend, Sunday September 30 th , from 7:00-8:00pm on CU Radio 1190. This semester Grant Baker, Matthew Maierhofer, and Joe Castagneri (pictured in this order above) will host the show. Next semester Josh Jacobson will substitute for...

Earlier this August, Anne Dougherty was presented with the Doug Faires award during the Mathematical Association of America’s (MCM) annual meeting- the 2018 MathFest. She received this award for her years of dedicated participation, recruitment, and coaching of teams in the MCM/ICM contest. The Doug Faires award is presented by...

On July 19, 2018, Applied Mathematics professor, Mark Ablowitz (pictured on the left), received an honorary Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. The honorary degree was awarded for Ablowitz’ “exceptional contributions to the science of nonlinear phenomena.” According to Ablowitz’ website , he...

On August 23 rd , the Applied Math Department’s first-year graduate students were busy learning and preparing for their new TA positions. During the meeting, each new TA presented a previously prepared and practiced five-minute mini-lecture to their fellow first-year graduate students. The topics presented covered trigonometry (how to use...

Armeen Taeb graduated from CU Boulder four years ago (2013) with undergraduate degrees in both Electrical Engineering (EE) and Applied Mathematics. He has since been working toward his PhD at Caltech’s Electrical Engineering Department, and expects to graduate in June 2019. His research focuses on statistics, and developing statistical models...

In 2015 Dr. Meredith Plumley successfully competed for a NASA Earth and Space Science Graduate Fellowship, which was used to support her dissertation research. Now, Dr. Plumley has been awarded the 2018 AGU Donald L. Turcotte Award for outstanding dissertation research. Dr.Plumley completed her dissertation, "investigations of asymptotic models for...

Dr. Meiss, Professor of Applied Mathematics, is one of ten principle investigators (PIs) awarded a prestigious grant from the Simons Foundation to research optimal stellarator designs. The Simons Grant will be $2million USD a year for four years. The research is led by Princeton University and is a collaboration between...