• CAAM News Archive •
2003

ARCHIVE NEWS:

  • Michael Hintermueller and Kurt Stuwe's article "Topography and Isotherms Revisited: The Influence of Laterally Migrating Drainage Divides" is Earth and Planetary Science Letters 3rd most downloaded article for the period of 10/02 - 10/03

    • December 2003


  • Brad Peercy, a VIGRE postdoc/instructor working in the Mathematical Biology PFUG, is profiled in the article "Going Multidisciplinary", Nature, v. 425, 2 October 2003, pp. 542-3.

    • October 2003


  • Pavel Solin, Postdoctoral Research Associate in CAAM working with Prof. Petr Kloucek, is co-author of "Higher-Order Finite Element Methods" by Pavel Solin, Karel Segeth, and Ivo Dolezel (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, July 2003, Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Vol. 41, ISBN 158488438X). Pavel has taught material from this book in CAAM 452 and in the currently offered CAAM 652.

    • September 2003


  • Steve Cox is awarded the Rice Pre-Medical Society's Outstanding Faculty Award.

    • September 2003


  • Yin Zhang's article, "Solving a Class of Semidefinite Programs Via Nonlinear Programming" is determined by ISI (The Institute of Scientific Information) to be one of the most cited recent papers in the field of Mathematics.

    • Dr. Zhang's paper can be found in the "New Hot Papers" section of ISI's website.

    August 2003


  • Richard Tapia, Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics and Director of the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, is quoted extensively in the lead news article, Science magazine, 27 June 2003, p. 2012, on the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action. The record of CAAM in producing PhDs from underrepresented groups is mentioned.

    • July 2003


  • Yin Zhang is the first recipient of the Presidential Award for Mentoring. Rice News Article.

    • May 2003


  • The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Richard Tapia. The article, entitled "A Race that's About More than Speed", can be found here.

    • March 2003


  • "Professor Uses Math to Uncover Flaw in BMX Racing" -- The article in The Houston Chronicle highlights Richard Tapia's mathematical solution to fairer odds in the sport of BMX racing.

    • February 2003


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