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Schaefer named INFORMS fellow Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2022

Rice professor recognized for his 'fundamental contributions to optimizing disease treatment decisions and optimization under uncertainty.'


Headshots of Shiqian Ma and Sebastian Perez-Salazar

Two tenure-track faculty join CMOR Friday, Aug. 5, 2022

Shiqian Ma and Sebastian Perez-Salazar, along with instructor Bo Jones, started at Rice on July 1.


Bilyana Tzolova, Rachael Alfant, Shelly Harvey, Jaihee Choi, and Sara Edelman-Munoz posing for photograph on Rice University campus.

Rice AWM honored with student chapter award Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2022

Association for Women in Mathematics student chapter organized the Texas Women in Mathematics Symposium in 2022.


Dane Grundvig

Grundvig receives NDSEG Fellowship Award Thursday, Apr. 28, 2022

Rice PhD student is advised by Matthias Heinkenschloss.


Adrian Celaya

Celaya receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Award Monday, Apr. 4, 2022

First-year PhD student earned his B.A. in CAAM from Rice in 2016.


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Computational and Applied Mathematics to change name of department Monday, Mar. 21, 2022

Effective July 1, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research to reflect growing area of research and academic study.


Milk bottles

Optimizing operations for donor milk banks Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

Schaefer working with Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas to help with staffing, equipment limitations.


Béatrice Rivière

Rivière elected to SIAM board of trustees Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022

CAAM professor is president of SIAM TX-LA Section, served as chair and secretary of SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences.


Ilya Hicks

Illya Hicks on authentic communication Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022

CAAM chair, professor reminds students that no matter how great their breakthrough, it will be for naught if they cannot explain it.