Local News Briefs

May 2008, Andrew Knyazev is a 2008 Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award winner.

June 2007, "An algebraic theory for primal and dual substructuring methods by constraints," by Jan Mandel, Clark Dohrmann, and Radek Tezaur, was identified by ISI as a Fast Breaking, highly cited paper. Only one math or statistics paper gets this distinction every two months.

March 2007, INFORMS Computing Society, the premier organization for computing and operations research, has renamed its service award in honor of Harvey Greenberg. The "Harvey J. Greenberg Award for Service to ICS," formerly called the "ICS Service Award," was renamed for Greenberg's dedication and long history of service to the organization. The first award will be presented at the 11th ICS Conference in 2009. The Harvey J. Greenberg award will be granted once every two years to an ICS member of at least five years who has contributed significantly to ICS and its objectives. Quoting department chair Mike Jacobson, "This unique distinction, renamed after Harvey, for his devoted service to the INFORMS organization, is only a small indicator of the time and effort that he has devoted to the profession and university."

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.