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Senior math wiz lands prestigious scholarship to study in the UK

Dec. 2, 2016

For as long as he can remember, Matthew Hurst has viewed the world around him in terms of angles and calculations, eyeing everything from the paper airplanes he crafted as a child to the spacecraft he still dreams of flying with one question in mind: How can mathematics be used...

Meet Our Visiting Scholars: Imran Khan

Nov. 14, 2016

Q: Where are you from? A: I am from the Kashmir region of the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). J&K is a state in northern India and is located mostly in the Himalayan Mountains. Kashmir is arguably one of the most beautiful places of India that experiences a captivating...

Graduate Student Research: Daniel Poll

Oct. 27, 2016

Daniel Poll, a Ph.D. student, is an up and coming researcher in the world of mathematical biology. He received a B.S. in Mathematics from his local college, the University of Anchorage, Alaska, and continued on to complete a Master鈥檚 degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Houston. He is...

Professor William Kleiber Receives Prestigious Awards

Sept. 26, 2016

It has been a triumphant year for Professor William Kleiber. The Lebesgue Center in western France has elected Professor Kleiber as the 2016 Junior Chair. The Lebesgue Center is a mathematics training and research organization that spans many areas of mathematics, but maintains a focus on disciplines connected to the...

Meet Our New Graduate Students

Sept. 20, 2016

Each year, the Applied Mathematics department at 精品SM在线影片 (APPM) attracts incredible graduate students from around the nation. In 2010, the National Research Council ranked APPM as the sixth top program in the country, and the department continues to score highly across many organizations and criteria. The city of Boulder...

Meet our New Faculty

Sept. 8, 2016

This semester, the Applied Math Department (APPM) welcomes a new associate professor, two new assistant professors, two new full-time instructors, two new instructors/research associates, and two new lecturers. These faculty members have diverse academic and professional backgrounds, from degrees earned here at 精品SM在线影片 to degrees earned as far away...

精品SM在线影片 Students Compete at the Mathematical Contest in Modeling and the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling

June 17, 2016

Each year, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) holds the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM). Sixty 精品SM在线影片 undergraduate students divided into twenty teams participated in the 2016 MCM and ICM. Students representing many majors partake in the competitions, which results...

Professor Mark Hoefer and Dispersive Hydrodynamics Laboratory Published in Physical Review Letters

June 16, 2016

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

Stephen Becker Awarded Data Science Research Grant

June 13, 2016

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

Jacqueline Wentz Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

May 31, 2016

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...

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