• CAAM News •
2007/08

CURRENT NEWS:

  • Dr. Wotao Yin is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. The NSF CAREER awards are extremely competitive and prestigious. They recognize the accomplishments and potential of Dr. Yin as a researcher, scholar and teacher. Congratulations!

    • May 2008


  • CAAM welcomes Dr. Beatice Riviere to the department. She is joining the department on July 1st as an Associate Professor.

    • May 2008


  • Congratulations to Dr. Tim Warburton on his promotion to Associate Professor.

    • May 2008


  • CAAM, MATH, and STAT are awarded a $5M NSF renewal. CAAM faculty, Dr. Steven J. Cox is the lead P.I. for this boundary-breaking math and statistics program.

    Rice News Article.

    • April 2008


  • Two Rice University professors, Dr. Liliana Borcea and Dr. Wotao Yinare among the authors of the first papers that will be published in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' new SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS). Article.

    • March 2008


  • Congratulations to Dr. Tim Warburton on the publication of the following book jointly with Jan Hesthaven.
    Nodal DG-FEM: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications
    More Information

    • December 2007


  • The Faculty Spotlight is on Dr. Liliana Borcea in this article from Rice News & Media by Patrick Kupp.

    • Click here to read the article.

    December 2007


  • Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Borcea on her promotion to Noah G. Harding Professor.

    • October 2007


  • CAAM's Outreach Program WRAP (Worthing Rice Apprenticeship Program) is highlighted in the Summer Issue of Rice at Large. Article.

    Additional information about the program can be found here

    July 2007


  • Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Borcea and Mark Embree on their recent promotion. Dr. Borcea has been promoted to Full Professor; Dr. Embree, Associate Professor with Tenure.

    April 2007


  • Jianliang Qian (2000) is in his second year as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Wichita State University.

    December 2006


  • Susan E. Minkoff (1995) is promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

    December 2006


  • Mark S. Gockenbach (1994) is promoted to Full Professor and interim Chair of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Technological University.

    December 2006


  • For the first time, on November 5, 2006, the International Space Station (ISS) successfully performed a 90 degree rotation without using costly fuel via a novel method called the Zero Propellant Maneuver (ZPM). The ZPM is an optimized maneuver trajectory that harnesses gravitational and aerodynamic forces in a coordinated fashion to safely complete the transition between pre-specified initial and final rotational states without firing thrusters.

    The ZPM was the result of a joint research project between The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., Houston, TX, and the Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM) Department at Rice University. The research was performed by CAAM graduate student Sagar Bhatt, a Rice University Draper Fellow, CAAM Professor Yin Zhang, and Dr. Nazareth Bedrossian of Draper Laboratory.

    November 2006


  • Dr. Mark Embree is one of three Rice Assistant Professors who has won the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Article is available at Rice News

    September 2006


  • The VIGRE courses are highlighted in the Spring 2006 Sallyport. A digital copy of the article is available. [ More Information ]

    May 2006


  • Professor Thrall passed away on April 11, 2006 after a long and illustrious career in mathematical sciences. [ More Information ]

    April 2006


  • Dr. Henry Rachford, a CAAM emeritus, and Dr. Don Peaceman, a CAAM adjunct, are featured in the March 2006 edition of SIAM News, Volume 39, Number 2, 2006.
    [ http://www.siam.org/pdf/news/913.pdf ]

    March 2006


  • CAAM graduate student, Denis Ridzal, is awarded the "John Von Neumann Research Fellowship in Computational Science" at Sandia National Laboratories.

    March 2006


  • CAAM undergraduates Sam Feng, Toby Isaac, and Nan Xiao win Mathematical Contest in Modeling. The Rice team was one of five judged to be "Outstanding Winners" for Problem B (modeling wheelchair access at an airport). The other winning teams were from Harvard (2 teams), MIT, and RPI.

    INFORMS, SIAM, and the MAA each choose one of the Outstanding Winners from each problem to receive special recognition. Rice was selected as the MAA Winner. A press release is also available.

    The Rice Team solved Problem B; description available here.

    March 2006


  • CAAM graduate student, Josef Sifuentes, is selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) award.

    March 2006


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