May 2018 - In This Issue:
- Blackwell-Tapia Prize
- Spring 2020
- Spring Postdocs
- Undergrad Research Made Easy
- Featured Workshops
- More Workshops
- Website Redesign
Dr. Ronald E. Mickens Named 2018 Blackwell-Tapia Prize Recipient
May 2, 2018 - The National Blackwell-Tapia Committee is pleased to announce that the 2018 Blackwell-Tapia Prize will be awarded to Dr. Ronald E. Mickens, the Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor in the Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University.
The prize will be presented at the Ninth Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony on Nov. 9-10, 2018, at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Andrea Bertozzi Elected to NAS
May 1, 2018 - ICERM is pleased to share the news that Andrea Bertozzi, the founding chair of ICERM's Scientific Advisory Board, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Andrea is known for her research in image segmentation, cooperative control of robotic vehicles, swarming, fluid interfaces, and crime modeling. Her ICERM public lecture on "The Mathematics of Crime" inspired the institute's 2016 "Predictive Policing" workshop.
ICERM Associate Director Elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
May 1, 2018 - Homer Walker, professor of mathematical sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and an ICERM consulting associate director, has been elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Walker Named SIAM Fellow
April 4, 2018 - Homer Walker (WPI) was recently named a SIAM Fellow. Homer, an ICERM Deputy Director Emeritus, was recognized for his contributions to theory and software of iterative methods for nonlinear systems and optimization, as well as application of these methods to scientific simulations.