Milka Perez Cazarez, Pierceton Charles, and Irabiel Romero holding their SIAM NCC Outstanding Poster Award certificates
Outstanding Poster Awards at SIAM NCC
Milka Perez Cazarez (PhD), “SVD-based filtering for synthetic aperture imaging above rough surfaces”; Irabiel Romero (PhD), “Real-time Power Systems Machine Learning-Assisted Transient Stability Preventative Control”; Pierceton Charles (undergraduate), “Optimizing Pooling Matrices for Compressed Sensing of Protein-Protein Interactions.”
Problem of the Month
Challenge yourself with the October Problem!
Fall 2026 Applied Math Undergraduate Mixer
Our first-ever Undergraduate Mixer was a great success! Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the afternoon so memorable.
Welcome, First-Year and New Transfer Applied Mathematics Students!
Students at the AMS (Applied Mathematical Sciences) New Student Orientation on August 25, 2026.
Professor Fernandes-Sindi Named 2027 AWM Fellow
Join us in congratulating Professor Suzanne Fernandes-Sindi on being named a 2027 AWM Fellow!
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.  

- Paul Halmos