CAAM News Archive
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CAAM NEWS (Current)
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Todays (4/30) front page article "Rice students' math puts city shelter on path for 'no kill' goal" in the Houston Chronicle features the work of the CAAM Senior Design Team "Kennel Club" consisting of the CAAM undergraduates Lilibeth Mata, Katherine McConachie, James Rigby, and Bryan Wigianto. The team developed a simulator to show which methods will be most effective in seeking 'no-kill' status for the Houston BARC dog kennel and help guide policy. The on-line version of the article can be read at:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Students-math-shows-path-to-success-for-BARC-4473833.php - The CAAM Senior Design Team "Kennel Club" consisting of the CAAM undergraduates Lilibeth Mata, Katherine McConachie, James Rigby, and Bryan Wigianto has developed a simulator to help improve the operations of the Houston BARC dog kennel. The team has been invited to present their simulator and their results to the Houston City Council on Monday, April 29, 2013, 10:00am. Congratulations to the team for their excellent work and for making a positive impact on the City of Houston. Thanks also to Prof. Mark Embree and to Pfeiffer VIGRE Postdoctoral Instructor Thomas Callaghan for their excellent mentoring of the "Kennel Club" and the other CAAM Senior Design Teams.
- Congratulations to Dr. Richard A. Tapia for his election into the American Academy for Arts and Sciences.
- Congratulations to Dr. Beatrice Riviere on her promotion to Full Professor of Computational & Applied Mathematics.
- Congratulations to Joey Huchette (CAAM Undergraduate) and Arturo Vargas (CAAM Graduate) who have been awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships.
- Congratulations to Jorge Castanon, who has been invited by SIAM to represent the Rice SIAM Student Chapter at the 2013 SIAM Annual meeting in San Diego.
- Congratulations to Meagan Whaley on her Keck Fellowship Award.
- Professor Danny Sorensen has been elected chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (SIAG LA). SIAM Activity Groups (SIAGs) organize conferences, minisymposia, newsletters, electronic communications and Web sites, and they award prizes. Among other activities, the SIAG LA organizes the SIAM Conferences on Applied Linear Algebra and the International Summer Schools on Numerical Linear Algebra (ISSNLA) for graduate students. Professor Danny Sorensen will chair the SIAG LA from January 1, 2013 until December 31, 2015.
- CAAM majors Katherine McConachie, Andrew Tilley, Guang Yang, as well as CAAM minor Scott Nauert are the recipients of the 2012 CAAM Chevron Prizes. These prizes are awarded for a particularly outstanding performance in a class, or for notable contributions in undergraduate research. Each prize consists of a certificate and a cash award. These prizes are made possible by a generous gift from the Chevron Corporation.
- The Ken Kennedy Institute (K2I) at Rice University facilitates fellowships for well qualified students. Of the eleven fellowships awarded for the 2012/13 academic year, three went to CAAM students: Yin Huang has been awarded the OG-HPC fellowship, Muhong Zhou has been awarded the BP fellowship, and Kun Liu and David Medina have been awarded the Shell fellowship.
- Rice mourns the loss of Dr. Paul E. Pfeiffer (1917-2012), Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
- Congratulations to Meagan Whaley, whose talk on "Eavesdropping Speech Connections" won the CAAM department prize at RCEL's Screech elevator pitch competition Wednesday (10/4).
- Professor Steven Cox has been appointed faculty director of the newly created Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE).
- The work of Demetri Spanos (CAAM BA 2002) with the Silicon Valley Startup Common is featured in Forbes.com
- Amber Kunkel, Evi Van Itallie, and Duo Wu (all CAAM BA 2012) have been selected as finalists for the INFORMS "Doing Good with Good OR" prize for their senior design project "Optimal Distribution of Medical Backpacks and Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi".
- Rice mourns the loss of faculty member. Rice News article.
- Congratulations to John E. Dennis, Noah Harding Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, who has been awarded an honorary doctor of mathematics from the University of Waterloo on Friday, June 15, 2012. The Waterloo Daily Bulletin writes "Dennis is renowned for his fundamental contributions to continuous optimization. Perhaps his most noted body of work concerns so-called "quasi-Newton" or "secant" methods for optimization. About 15 years ago, he turned his attention to derivative-free optimization (DFO). DFO has been around for decades, but it languished until Dr. Dennis and his students revived it in the 1990s.
- A Rice News article on Prof. Steven J. Cox's 2012 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching.
- A Rice News article on Prof. Mark Embree's 2012 George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
- Congratulations to Daria Lawrence, who received the 2012 Hardy Bourland Award. The award recognizes staff members in the School of Engineering whose performance is consistently outstanding or whose contributions have significantly improved the School of Engineering or Rice as a whole.
- The paper Filtering Deterministic Layer Effects in Imaging (MMS (7) 2009, 1267-1301) by L. Borcea (Prof. CAAM), F. Gonzalez del Cueto (CAAM PhD 2009), G. Papanicolaou, and C. Tsogka has been selected as a SIGEST paper for SIAM Review, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2012.
- Congratulations to Prof. Mark Embree who has been awarded the 2012 George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching and to Prof. Steven Cox who has been awarded a 2012 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching.
- Congratulations to Dr. Wotao Yin on his promotion to Associate Professor of Computational & Applied Mathematics.
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CAAM graduate students Mario Bencomo and Anthony Simms, CAAM major Elizabeth Scott Van Itallie, and
CAAM minor Michael Eastwood have been awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
March 2012
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CAAM graduate student Drew Kouri has been awarded the J.H. Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing at the Argonne National Laboratory.
http://engineering.rice.edu/NewsContent.aspx?id=3691
March 2012
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CAAM graduate student Jeff Hokanson and Profs. Cox and Embree made it on the cover of the March 2012 edition of SIAM Review with a picture from their article "One Can Hear the Composition of a String: Experiments with an Inverse Eigenvalue Problem".
http://link.aip.org/link/?SIR/54/157/1
March 2012
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Dr. Tapia stars in a recent Rice Unconventional Education Feature:
January 2012
Again, congratulations to the team for their excellent work and for making a positive impact on the City of Houston, and to Prof. Mark Embree and Pfeiffer VIGRE Postdoctoral Instructor Thomas Callaghan for their excellent mentoring of the "Kennel Club" and the other CAAM Senior Design Teams.
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Congratulations!
These four join the (former) CAAM graduate students Saifon Chaturantabut, Rajesh Gandham, Igor Terentyev, and Xin Wang (twice), who have received fellowships facilitated by K2I in recent years.
November 2012
Prof. Pfeiffer joined Rice as an undergraduate in 1934. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Rice in 1938 and 1948, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rice in 1952. In between, Paul earned a Bachelor of Divinity from the Perkins School of Theology at SMU in 1943. Paul was on the Rice faculty from 1947 until 1998, first as an instructor and, after receiving his PhD, as an assistant, then an associate, and since 1959, as a full professor. Paul was instrumental in forming the Department of Mathematical Sciences, renamed Computational and Applied Mathematics Department in Fall 1992. Read more about Prof. Pfeiffer here.
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They will present their work at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in October.
http://engineering.rice.edu/NewsContent.aspx?id=8589935256
July 2012
Jennifer Young joined the CAAM department in 2010 as a Pfeiffer-VIGRE Instructor.
June 2012
Currently the Noah Harding Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Dennis was the founder and editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Optimization and co-editor of the Journal of Mathematical Programming, as well as an advisory editor of Mathematics of Operations Research. As an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, Dennis participated in research with a number of people in the department and has had useful and productive contact with graduate students working in the area of optimization, both as a mathematical mentor and as a person who has an understanding, informed by personal involvement, of the role of optimization in industry."
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The SIGEST section contains an outstanding paper that has previously appeared in one of SIAM's specialized research journals. SIGEST papers are selected by the editors of the SIAM journals for the importance of their contributions and topic, their clear writing style, and their accessibility for the SIAM community.
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