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Matteo Polimeno has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis

July 16, 2024

Our Ph.D. student, Matteo Polimeno (advisers: Prof. Changho Kim and Prof. Francois Blanchette), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Mathematical and physical modeling of reactive gas dynamics and aggregation dynamics at small scales". Congratulations, Dr. Polimeno! Dr....

Jocelyn receives an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award from AWM at SIAM Annual Meeting 2024.

July 12, 2024

Congratulations! https://awm-math.org/meetings/awm-siam/awm-at-siam-2024/ https://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_talk.cfm?p=138472

Jared Stewart has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis

May 2, 2024

Our Ph.D. student, Jared Stewart (adviser: Prof. Mayya Tokman), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Exponential time integrators and combustion simulations". Congratulations, Dr. Stewart! We wish you all the best!

Maia Powell has successfully defended her Ph.D thesis

May 1, 2024

Our Ph.D. student, Maia Powell (adviser: Prof. Arnold Kim), has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Characterizing Language & Users on Social Media". Congratulations, Dr. Powell! We wish you all the best!

Jordan Collignon has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis

April 19, 2024

Our Ph.D. student, Jordan Collignon (adviser: Prof. Suzanne Sindi), has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Collignon! We wish you all the best!

Graduate Division Hosts 10th Grad Slam Competition

April 4, 2024

Who will UC Merced’s Grad Slam champion be? Cheer on the finalists on April 8 and find out. Graduate students from UC Merced’s three schools will take the stage to compete in the Graduate Division’s 10th Grad Slam finals. Grad Slam is an annual University of California competition that aims to make...

Fellowship Expands Quantum, AI Training to Fill Industry Demand

February 26, 2024

UC Merced graduate students Anuvetha Govindarajan and Jocelyn Ornelas-Munoz have each received a $25,000 fellowship from SandboxAQ, which creates solutions at the nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology — or AQ — to address some of the world's greatest challenges. For the past six...

Our former graduate student, Andrew Lazar, is featured in the Modesto Bee

February 20, 2024

Stanislaus County colleges behind in faculty diversity. What’s being done?

2nd Distinguished Applied Mathematics Graduate Alumni Award - Dr. John Loffeld

January 30, 2024

The Applied Mathematics graduate program invited Dr. John Loffeld(Lawrence Livermore National Lab) as our 2nd Distinguished Applied Mathematics Graduate Alumni Awardee. Congratulations!

New Collaborations Designed to Increase Access to Data Science for All Students

November 20, 2023

UC Merced is part of several new initiatives aimed at increasing the accessibility and inclusivity of data science studies and opening new opportunities for historically underserved students after graduation. New grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) and...

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