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The Applied Mathematics Department having fun hosting tables on Bobcat Day 2025

April 19, 2025
During Bobcat Day 2025 (Saturday, April 19), we promoted our Applied Mathematics undergraduate program as well as the Data Science & Computing undergraduate program by hosting tables. Several faculty members as well as the undergraduate student volunteers welcomed prospective students and their...

Tri (Alex) Nguyen has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis

July 24, 2024
Our Ph.D. student, Tri (Alex) Nguyen (adviser: Prof. Mayya Tokman), has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Investigation into the Numerical Simulation of Strongly Magnetized Charged Particle Dynamics by Exponential Integration". Congratulations, Dr. Nguyen! We wish you all the...

Hellman Awards Deepening Research into Genomes, Health and Computer Science

July 22, 2024
Three faculty members have joined the prestigious ranks of Hellman Fellowship recipients this year. Applied mathematics Professor Tomas Rube, who studies mathematical biology, Professor Andrea Polonijo, a medical sociologist, and computer science and engineering Professor Peingfei Su will...

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...

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