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Samuel Brensinger awarded the 2020 D.C. Spriestersbach Distinguished Dissertation Prize

AMCS student Samuel Brensinger has been awarded the prestigious 2020 D.C. Spriestersbach Distinguished Dissertation Prize

https://www.grad.uiowa.edu/faculty-staff/dgs/awards/spriestersbach-dissertation-prize

from the Graduate College in the Mathematical, Physical Sciences and Engineering in recognition of the excellence of his doctoral dissertation: “Projective Gauge Gravity.” The winner of the Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize receives $2,500 and is selected as the University of Iowa's nominee in the national competition for the 2020 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Hearty congratulations from all of us Sam!
AMCS Day on June 4, 2020

The second AMCS Day took place on June 4, 2020 virtually via Zoom. There was a total of fourteen presentations given by eleven AMCS students, two AMCS alumni, and one special guest speaker. The full schedule can be found at https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~ljay/AMCS_Day_06-04-20.pdf Thanks again to everyone who made a presentation and to those who attended.
Two AMCS students received the 2020 outstanding TA awards

Jared Grove and Mitchell Riley received the University of Iowa Council on Teaching - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards in 2020. Congratulations!
Hiroyuki Sugiyama and Yangyang Wang appointed as new AMCS faculty

Prof. Hiroyuki Sugiyama from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Assist Prof. Yangyang Wang from the Dept. of Mathematics have been appointed as new faculty members of the AMCS Program. Welcome to both!
Former AMCS Director Herb Hethcote makes generous gift

Former AMCS Director Herb Hethcote has made an extremely generous donation of $50,000 to the AMCS Program: "The Hethcote AMCS Fellowship Fund will be used to provide one or more annual awards to deserving graduate students enrolled in the University of Iowa Graduate College’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences (AMCS) who demonstrate merit and are in good academic standing. This fund is to be administered by the Director of AMCS and is to be used for the support of activities of AMCS graduate students such as travel to present their work at professional meetings and other academic activities."
It is quite remarkable in this current time of coronavirus epidemic to notice that Herb's 2000 SIAM Review paper "The Mathematics of Infectious Diseases" has way over 4500 citations!
Thank you Herb!
Hassan Rafique received the Best Paper Award Runner-up at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2019

Hassan Rafique received the Best Paper Award Runner-up at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2019 (http://2019.dsconf.cc/index.html) for the paper "Model-Agnostic Linear Competitors" (with co-authors Tong Wang, Qihang Lin & Arshia Shinghani).
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Four AMCS students received 2019 outstanding TA awards

Melanie King, Pake Melland, Roberto C. Toro-Rodriguez, and Rajinda S. Wickrama received the University of Iowa Council on Teaching - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards in 2019.
Inaugural AMCS Day on April 20, 2019

The inaugural AMCS Day successfully took place on April 20, 2019. Two major activities of the AMSC Day were research presentations by eight AMCS students and panel discussion on career opportunities. The schedule of the AMCS Day can be found at http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~whan/AMCS_Day_schedule.pdf.
Pake Melland selected for a 2019 NSF Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI)

Pake Melland has been selected for a 2019 Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) under the program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences. His internship will take place at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NM with mentors Jason Albright and Nathan Urban. The appointment is for 10 consecutive weeks over the summer. Pake's Ph.D. thesis advisor is Prof. Rodica Curtu.
Sara Reed in the news

The profile on Sara Reed can be found at https://www.grad.uiowa.edu/news/2019-03-28/exploring-effectiveness-of-au...

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