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After members of the Applied Mathematics Department at CU felt like there was a lack of resources and representation for women within the department, a group of women coordinated with administration in order to positively impact the lives of students and faculty. The Association for Women in Mathematics was founded...

Daniel Appelö was recently hired as associate professor in the Applied Mathematics department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Originally from Sweden, he was drawn to Colorado because of its natural beauty and culture. He also admired CU for its prestigious numerical analysis program. He is excited to be joining...

The Buffalo Bicycle Classic is an annual bicycle race and fundraising effort to help students in severe financial need achieve their goals of a higher education in the college of arts and sciences. Since 2003, the BBC has raised over 3 million dollars in scholarship money for in-state students. On...

Q: Why did you choose to attend graduate school? A: My interest in applied math and the career paths available after graduate school compelled me to attend. I also felt like there was much more to learn after undergraduate, as I just scratched the surface of many subjects I was...

Floyd Pierce , an applied mathematics undergrad, is currently competing on “ The Amazing Race ”, a popular CBS reality show. Contestants race across the world while completing challenges and solving puzzles. They can win prizes along the way, such as prepaid vacations. The winners are awarded one million dollars...

Wayne Mitchell works with Professor Tom Manteuffel on low-communication, parallel multigrid algorithms. While multigrid algorithms are the current method of choice for solving or preconditioning many large linear systems (especially those arising from the discretization of elliptic PDEs) in high-performance computing codes, the communication cost associated with these algorithms is...

Rebecca Mitchell, an applied mathematics graduate student, does research in dynamical systems. She works with Professor Jim Meiss to investigate methods of optimizing stirring of finite-time mixing problems. She uses area-preserving maps applied to a two-dimensional domain to model simple stirring mechanisms applied to a fluid. Given some initial concentration...

This article was originally featured in " CU Boulder Today " Do you have your 2017 NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket filled out for the annual office pool? Just remember: You don’t need a perfect bracket, just one that tops those of your workmates. So what are the odds of...

Can you tell us about your background prior to joining APPM? After getting my Ph.D. at Uppsala University in Sweden in Scientific Computing, I went on to a postdoctoral position at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. This is a place where physicists are probing the...

Derek Driggs, an undergraduate applied mathematics major, has received a Gates-Cambridge scholarship . Each year, the highly-competitive scholarship is awarded to 95 student studying outside of the UK. The scholarship is a full-ride to Cambridge University for students with “outstanding intellectual ability”, “leadership potential”, and “a commitment to improving the...