CAAM News
Current News (2009)
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Professor Liliana Borcea was awarded the NSA Research Professorship at MSRI to participate in the Fall 2010
MSRI program "Inverse Problems and Applications". MSRI awards a small number of these temporary research professorships to distinguished researchers who will be making key contributions to their programs.
November 2009
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CAAM graduate student Russell Carden's paper A simple algorithm for the inverse field of values problem which appeared in Inverse Problems was chosen as one of a few select papers to be included in IoP Select. IoP Select is a special collection of journal articles, chosen by the IoP Editors
based on substantial advances or significant breakthroughs, a high degree of novelty, and significant impact on future research.
November 2009
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Congratulations to Igor Terentyev, CAAM graduate student, who is the recipient of the 2009-10 Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. Graduate Fellowship. The one-year fellowship is granted to an outstanding graduate student involved in high-performance computing and was established by Cray in honor of the late Ken Kennedy.
October 2009
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Mark Embree will serve as the interim director for the new Rice Center for Engineering Leadership . The Center has been established at the George R. Brown School of Engineering with a mission of transforming engineering education by ensuring that students experience engineering as a transformative force on both a personal and societal level.
October 2009
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Richard Tapia received the 2009 Hispanic Heritage Math and Science Award. The Hispanic Heritage Awards have been given for the past 23 years by the White House to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month. The awards are bestowed on distinguished leaders of Latino descent in various categories. Richard was honored along with Sen. Robert Menendez, the rock group Mana, boxer Oscar de la Hoya, and others. Congratulations, Richard, on this latest high profile honor.
www.hispanicheritage.org/press_news.php?id=169
October 2009
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Dr. Tapia is profiled in Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
video.
July 2009
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Rice faculty members, Richard A. Tapia and William W. Symes named to applied math society's elite ranks.
May 2009
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Congratulations to Mark Embree on his promotion to Professor of Computational & Applied Mathematics.
April 2009
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Congratulations to Professor Wotao Yin for winning the Sloan Fellowship!
February 2009