Local News Briefs – Archive

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.cudenver.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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