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Graduate student Mohammed Aburidi defends PhD dissertation

November 18, 2024

Graduate student, Mohammed Aburidi, successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled "Optimization for Robust and Interpretable Learning on Graphs and Images," on November 18, 2024. Mohammed is advised by Prof. Roummel Marcia. His committee members include...

The Applied Mathematics Department hosts an EJIE seminar by Dr. Mary Ann Leung

November 7, 2024

The Applied Math department hosts an EJIE (Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence) guest lecture seminar by Dr. Mary Ann Leung (Sustainable Horizons Institute) on Thursday, November 7 at 4pm in SSM 104. The presentation title is "Normalizing Inclusion by Embracing Difference"....

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...

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