Congratulations, Dr. Sharan!
Shashwat Sharan successfully defended his PhD dissertation in July. Dr. Sharan has begun a postdoctoral position at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
2026 Summer Bridge Symposium
Our incoming graduate students participated at the 2026 Summer Bridge Symposium! (Left to Right) Julia Erdman, Alondra Maravilla, Andrew Gray, Saleha Begum, Sheng-Chang Chen, Yuxiang Feng
Applied Mathematics Graduate Program — 2025–2026 Excellence Awards
We are delighted to celebrate this year's recipients of the Applied Mathematics Graduate Program Excellence Awards.
Matthew Blomquist and others after he completed his dissertation defense
Congratulations Dr. Blomquist!
Matthew Blomquist successfully defended his dissertation "Characteristic Bending and Structure-Preserving Methods for Imcompressible Flow" on Jan. 28. 
NSF-PIMS Summer School and Hacksthon groups
NSF-PIMS Summer School and Hackathon on Structure-Preserving Scientific Computing and Machine Learning
Applied Mathematics faculty Andy Wan organizes the NSF-PIMS Summer School and Hackathon on Structure-Preserving Scientific Computing and Machine Learning at the University of Washington on June 16-25, 2025.
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