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August 2, 2019
By Jeremy Upsal
The 2018-2019 school year is the second full year of the diversity committee operating in the Department of Applied Mathematics, but this is our first newsletter. The Diversity Committee is a departmental-appointed committee composed of students, faculty, and staff. In 2018-2019, the committee consisted of Karen Beaudry,... Read more
August 1, 2019
By Matthew Lorig
From late March to early June this year, I had the pleasure of working as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chile, which is located in Chile's largest city, Santiago. I moved to Santiago with my family when I was 12 and remained there until I graduated from high school. So, in addition to being a fantastic opportunity to work at a world-class institution, my recent visit to the University of Chile was a return home.
During my visit, I was hosted by Professor... Read more
July 25, 2019
Congratulations to all of our graduates!
Doctors of Philosophy
Kathleen ChampionSamuel RudyPeng Zheng
Master of Science in Applied Mathematics
Daniel J. Armagost James V. Koch Anna J. SheppardMolly Baird Eric K. Lee Samuel SmithElise A. Bishoff Nathan Lee Sharon W. SolisAnthony Boone Roman Levin Jun... Read more
June 24, 2019
SIAM UW AwardRecipient: Katherine OwensFor exceptional service to the University of Washington Chapter of SIAM for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Joseph Hammack Endowment AwardRecipient: Yu-Chen ChengFor exemplary work by a student in the Department of Applied Mathematics.
Tung Family Endowment AwardRecipient: Shane ShangFor exemplary work by a student in the... Read more
June 20, 2019
The Department of Applied Mathematics has launched a YouTube channel, whose first videos include a selection of lectures from our recent conference,... Read more
May 29, 2019
Originally featured in UW News, article can be found here.
In patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the rate of disease growth varies widely. In a new study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Washington, scientists report that CLL... Read more
May 1, 2019
Originally published in UW News, article can be found here
Chris Bretherton, a University of Washington professor, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Bretherton is one of 100 new members elected for their “distinguished... Read more
April 25, 2019
UW Applied Mathematics assistant professor Eli Shlizerman and fellow UW researchers created a framework to visualize and interact with a model of the C. elegans neuronal network in real-time.
Their work was published as ... Read more
April 10, 2019
Congratulations to UW Amath PhD student Tyler Chen, who has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education.
This brings the number of current UW Amath graduate students with external... Read more
March 8, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Trogdon, currently at UC Irvine's Math Department, has accepted our offer to join the department, effective this autumn, as an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics.
Dr. Trogdon is a PhD graduate (2013) of our department. He is interested in many topics, including Random Matrices, the probabilistic investigation of numerical algorithms, stochastic processes and partial differential equations. For more information, see ... Read more