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Senior brings first operations research student club to Rice Engineering Thu, 06/13/2024 - 16:28
Bayzhan Mukatay launches student chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest operations research professional organization in the world.
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Rice Engineering launches new degree programs in operations research Tue, 06/11/2024 - 13:30
New major and minor offerings align with rising demand of operations research expertise in the industry.
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Rice-designed computational models help children recover from heart surgery Fri, 05/10/2024 - 10:27
Undergraduate research by Chawit “Poom” Kritpracha ’23 published in Medical Engineering and Physics.
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Illya Hicks awarded Blackwell-Tapia Prize Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:56
Hicks recognized for his applied mathematics research, contributions to diversity and outreach.
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Richard Tapia celebrated for 50 years of service at Rice Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:47
Y. Ping Sun Award for Outstanding Community Engagement awarded during ceremony
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Finite Element Rodeo returns to Rice Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:25
Conference brings a close-knit community of mathematicians, testing ground for new ideas.
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Seven CMOR seniors honored at annual luncheon Thu, 12/14/2023 - 15:03
Recipients of the 2023 Michael Ross Franco Award, CMOR-Chevron prizes acknowledged for their achievements.
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Hicks named to board of trustees of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics Wed, 12/13/2023 - 15:16
His four-year term involves budget review, policy development, advising and fundraising.
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CMOR students, postdocs present research at first NASC training workshop at Rice Wed, 10/25/2023 - 08:46
NSF-backed, department-sponsored event aims to strengthen the preparation of researchers for careers in academia and industry.
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Operations research senior awarded scholarship to present paper at INFORMS Wed, 10/18/2023 - 08:27
Charlie Liu's project aims to use network optimization techniques to promote fairness in the U.S. liver transplant allocation network.
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Alfant, Kirk among Rice Engineering's 2023-24 Future Faculty Fellows Thu, 10/05/2023 - 10:11
School of Engineering program prepares PhD students, postdocs to stand out in academic job market.
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Rice CMOR hires two new tenure-track faculty members Tue, 08/29/2023 - 12:56
Thomas Geoffrey Anderson and Lu Zhang are among 21 faculty hires in the School of Engineering.
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Operations research student wins best presentation at Google-backed poster session Wed, 08/02/2023 - 10:42
Rice junior Alex Zalles spent 10-week Research Experience for Undergrads program studying statistics and data science.
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Rice alumnus receives Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Technology Innovation Tue, 07/11/2023 - 08:54
Chengbo Li '11 recognized for his work in CSI technology and development of core algorithms and software infrastructure.
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Riviere receives NSF grant to advance Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing Tue, 05/30/2023 - 13:19
The $2.3 million in RTG NASC funding will support research conducted by graduate and undergraduate students, and postdocs in CMOR.
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Schaefer receives Curriculum Innovation Award from Rice Engineering Thu, 04/27/2023 - 08:45
CMOR professor recognized for curricular innovation.
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Jesse Chan elected secretary for SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section Fri, 04/14/2023 - 07:56
Rice CMOR assistant professor will also serve on section's four-person board.
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CMOR junior named 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholar Tue, 04/11/2023 - 10:54
Ruofeng 'Charlie' Liu recognized with he preeminent award for undergraduates studying natural sciences, engineering or mathematics.
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Three Rice students earn NDSEG Fellowship Awards Thu, 12/15/2022 - 08:37
Adrian Celaya, Dane Grundvig and Alejandro Diaz are all PhD students in the Department of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research.
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CMOR seniors honored with Michael Ross Franco Award Tue, 12/13/2022 - 13:18
Chawit “Poom” Kritpracha, Praneeta A. Nalluri and Daihan “Jack” Zhang received awards at the annual CAAM/CMOR luncheon.