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Applied Mathematics Assistant Professor Nancy Rodriguez won the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, which is presented to junior faculty who show passion and excellence in both areas of research and education. This award comes with a grant that aims to support the research and educational...

In January, the Department of Applied Mathematics recently learned of the passing of high impact alumnus, John Richard “Jack” Woodhull. Jack graduated from CU Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics in 1957 and in 1960, returned to CU to earn a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics after serving...

In November, the University of Colorado lost Peter Teets, a distinguished alumnus of the original Applied Mathematics department on the Boulder campus. Teets graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics and two years later, a Master of Science degree, also in applied mathematics, from the...

Recently, Applied Mathematics graduate student Fortino Garcia was awarded an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Fortino proposed to investigate numerical methods for open quantum systems. Specifically, Fortino will analyze a Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for a dimension-reducing quantum trajectory approach for open quantum systems. The MLMC quantum trajectory...

The slides for our PMD information session can be found here . Learn more about pursuing a Professional Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics at CU Boulder.

Recently, a grant to study solar weather using machine learning was funded, and among those working on the project, the Applied Math Department's own Professor James Meiss and Affiliate Dr. Natasha Flyer are highlighted. In an article released by the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences titled Building artifical intelligence...

In the wake of continued campus guidelines to protect the greater community, the Department of Applied Mathematics is celebrating their winter graduation by posting a Winter 2020 Commencement Program . In addition, the Department Chair, Professor Keith Julien, would like to extend his congratulations to the graduating class: “On behalf...

Recently, Associate Professor Juan G. Restrepo and Applied Math PhD student Nicholas Landry published their work titled “The effect of heterogeneity on hypergraph contagion models” along with a press release . Nicholas, who has been studying the dynamics of networks, and Prof. Restrepo wanted to look at the effects of...

This month, Applied Mathematics Department congratulated David Gunderman for receiving the Fall 2020 Graduate Part-Time Instructor Appreciation Award. Over the course of the last 30 years, the Graduate School has awarded Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Awards. However, this year, in light of the ongoing campus challenges, the Graduate School...

Applied Mathematics Professor Mark Ablowitz was named CU Distinguished Professor by the CU Board of Regents on November 12, 2020. The title "Distinguished Professor" is the highest honor that the University of Colorado bestows on its own faculty members. Mark Ablowitz joins a cohort of only 118 faculty (since 1977)...