Local News Briefs – Archive

July 2005, Leo Franca has been listed in the ISI site isihighlycited.com as a Highly Cited Author. ISIHighlyCited.com reveals the people behind the accomplishments in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. These individuals are the most highly cited within each category for the period 1981-1999 and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers. Leo is the first faculty member at UCD to be listed in this site.

June 2005. Ilya Lashuk (Ph.D. adviser Andrew Knyazev) has been awarded a summer student fellowship from the LLNL for 3 months.

April 2005. Leo Franca presented a Keynote Lecture at the 13th Conference on Finite Elements for Flow Problems in Swansea, Country of Wales, U.K.

March 2005. UCD was host to the Front Range Applied Mathematics Student Conference.

February 2005. Gary Olson supervised three undergraduate teams in the MCM/ICM international competition in mathematical modeling. The undergraduates were Leah Grant, Christine Lee, Darren Homrighausen, Matt Kaspari, Jeremy Noe, Barry O'Reilly, Jon Stranske, Kurt Cordle, and Matt Burman. All 3 teams received Honorable Mention Awards and placed in the top 40% of teams that entered the competition.

December 2004. Mike Kawai supervised five students who entered the 65th William Lowell Putnam Exam. Barry O'Reilly logged +8 points.

October 2004. Denver was host to the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) meeting (Harvey Greenberg organized the Plenary and Keynote talks plus the Tutorials, which were published by Springer) – see www.informs.org/Conf/Denver2004/.

October 2004. Harvey Greenberg completed a special issue of INFORMS Journal on Computing on Computational Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics, Volume 16, Number 4

October 2004. Andrew Knyazev and Jan Mandel have completed editing the special issue of the IMACS journal, Applied Numerical Mathematics. This is the proceedings of the Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, which took place at CU-Denver March 2003.

October 2004. National Science Foundation, MRI: Collaborative Research: Acquisition of an IBM BlueGene/L Supercomputer, under the direction of Jan Mandel and Andrew Knyazev, in collaboration with Richard D. Loft, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and Henry M. Tufo, University of Colorado (Boulder), $119,332.

September 2004. Mike Jacobson (Dept Chair) is co-PI, with Doris Kimbrough (PI, Chemistry), Carole Basile (co-PI, Education), Omnia El-Hakim (co-PI, CSU), and Linda Morris (co-PI, Jefferson County Public Schools), for an NSF grant of about $12.5 million to develop and implement a Rocky Mountain Middle School Math Science Partnership. Major goals include: improve content knowledge of middle school math and science teachers, and implement institutional change in the way present and future teachers are prepared. The grant will fund about $2.5 million over five years.

July 2004. Lynn Bennethum (Dept Associate Chair) is principal invistigator for a $100,000 education grant from NSF called Intermath. It involves studying the impact of incorporating application projects and teaching with technology in Calculus 1, 2, 3 and the combined Linear Algebra and ODE courses (MATH 1401, 2411, 2421 and 3195).

June 2004. Andrew Knyazev obtained research funding from DOE, Sandia National Labs, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in cooperation with FusionNumerics Inc.

May 2004. Harvey Greenberg obtained research funds from Sandia National Labs and sent Tod Morrison, Ph.D. student, to visit there for the summer research program. Tod is working on robust optimization, with applications to water network security.

March 2004. Leo Franco published a book entitled Finite Element Methods: 1970's and Beyond (co-edited with T.E. Tezduyar and A. Masud).

August 2003. Jan Mandel is principal investigator on a newly funded NSF grant to model the spread and containment of wild fires. The $2 million, five-year project involves five institutions. CU-Denver faculty members Leo Franca and Tolya Puhalskii are co-PIs on the grant.   See the latest at SIAM News.

July 2003. Mike Jacobson joined the mathematics faculty as professor and chair. He comes to us from the University of Louisville where he had a distinguished career as associate dean, professor, and graph theorist.

June 2003. Andrew Knyazev is principal invistigator for a National Science Foundation supplemental support through the Approaches to Combat Terrorism program, \$53,554 (through 2005).

March 2003. CU-Denver hosted the Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, under the direction of Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, under the direction of Andrew Knyazev – see http://math.ucdenver.edu/IMACS03/

January 2003. Bill Briggs was appointed Vice-President for Education of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

December 2002. Mike Kawai sponsored a team of our undergraduates for the Putnam Competition: Andrew Been, In-Sung Chang, Jason Elliot, Amy Rulo, Cathy Still and Jon Stranske. CU-Denver was among 453 institutions, and these six students were among 2,954 contestants. Jason Elliot received a $50 prize from the Mathematics Department for scoring 10 points.

July 2002. Leo Franca was honored as a new IACM fellow at the IACM Awards Ceremony in the Vienna City Hall

February 2002. Fred Glover was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

November 2001. Anatolii (Tolya) Puhalskii received Best Publication Award of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.

November 2000. Allen Holder won the William Pierskalla Best Paper Award for his paper, Designing Radiotherapy Plans with Elastic Constraints & Interior Point Methods.

March 1999. Leo Franca won the 1999 R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award and Medal.

August 1999. Harvey Greenberg received the Harold Larnder Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society for distinguished international achievement in operations research .

August 1998. Fred Glover won most prestigious award in operations research - the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize for his fundamental contributions to integer programming, networks, and combinatorial optimization.

December 2002. Mike Kawai sponsored a team of our undergraduates for the Putnam Competition: Andrew Been, In-Sung Chang, Jason Elliot, Amy Rulo, Cathy Still and Jon Stranske. CU-Denver was among 453 institutions, and these six students were among 2,954 contestants. Jason Elliot received a $50 prize from the Mathematics Department for scoring 10 points.

July 2002. Leo Franca was honored as a new IACM fellow at the IACM Awards Ceremony in the Vienna City Hall

February 2002. Fred Glover was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

November 2001. Anatolii (Tolya) Puhalskii received Best Publication Award of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.

November 2000. Allen Holder won the William Pierskalla Best Paper Award for his paper, Designing Radiotherapy Plans with Elastic Constraints & Interior Point Methods.

March 1999. Leo Franca won the 1999 R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award and Medal.

August 1999. Harvey Greenberg received the Harold Larnder Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society for distinguished international achievement in operations research .

August 1998. Fred Glover won most prestigious award in operations research - the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize for his fundamental contributions to integer programming, networks, and combinatorial optimization.

December 2002. Mike Kawai sponsored a team of our undergraduates for the Putnam Competition: Andrew Been, In-Sung Chang, Jason Elliot, Amy Rulo, Cathy Still and Jon Stranske. CU-Denver was among 453 institutions, and these six students were among 2,954 contestants. Jason Elliot received a $50 prize from the Mathematics Department for scoring 10 points.

July 2002. Leo Franca was honored as a new IACM fellow at the IACM Awards Ceremony in the Vienna City Hall

February 2002. Fred Glover was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

November 2001. Anatolii (Tolya) Puhalskii received Best Publication Award of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.

November 2000. Allen Holder won the William Pierskalla Best Paper Award for his paper, Designing Radiotherapy Plans with Elastic Constraints & Interior Point Methods.

March 1999. Leo Franca won the 1999 R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award and Medal.

August 1999. Harvey Greenberg received the Harold Larnder Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society for distinguished international achievement in operations research .

August 1998. Fred Glover won most prestigious award in operations research - the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize for his fundamental contributions to integer programming, networks, and combinatorial optimization.

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