
Celaya receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Award Mon, 04/04/2022 - 09:13
First-year PhD student earned his B.A. in CAAM from Rice in 2016.

Computational and Applied Mathematics to change name of department Mon, 03/21/2022 - 09:08
Effective July 1, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research to reflect growing area of research and academic study.

Optimizing operations for donor milk banks Wed, 02/09/2022 - 11:45
Schaefer working with Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas to help with staffing, equipment limitations.

Rivière elected to SIAM board of trustees Tue, 02/01/2022 - 13:03
CAAM professor is president of SIAM TX-LA Section, served as chair and secretary of SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences.

Illya Hicks on authentic communication Tue, 01/11/2022 - 13:00
CAAM chair, professor reminds students that no matter how great their breakthrough, it will be for naught if they cannot explain it.

CAAM honors five seniors with awards Fri, 12/17/2021 - 15:28
CAAM-Chevron Prize recognizes research, outreach; Michael Ross Franco Award goes to exemplary students.

Rice alumnus wins UT System Outstanding Teacher Award Wed, 12/01/2021 - 08:54
Josef Sifuentes '10 is an assistant professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Hicks among INFORMS Minority Issues Forum Fellows inaugural class Tue, 11/30/2021 - 10:50
Also elected was William Christian, Jr., who graduated with an M.S. and Ph.D. in CAAM from Rice in 1999 and 2003.

Guodong Pang to join CAAM faculty, Jan. 1 Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:10
His research interests include applied probability, stochastic process limits theory, stochastic control, stochastic networks, queueing systems and stochastic epidemic models.

Rivière named Association for Women in Mathematics fellow Thu, 10/14/2021 - 14:48
CAAM professor recognized for her research, mentorship of women, and service.

Tzolova, third-year PhD student, awarded 3-year, $138,000 NIH grant Mon, 09/20/2021 - 10:16
Fellowship supports development of a more accurate approach to imaging the vascular system.

Huchette article receives Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize from MOS Wed, 07/28/2021 - 13:17
'JuMP: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization' was published in the SIAM Review in 2017.

PhD alumnus earns second second place in IISE's Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award competition Wed, 05/05/2021 - 09:44
Temitayo “Tayo” Ajayi now works as an operations research analyst for Nature Source Improved Plants.

Béatrice Rivière named fellow of SIAM Thu, 04/01/2021 - 10:46
CAAM professor recognized for her 'contributions in numerical analysis, scientific computing, and modeling of porous media.'

Illya Hicks named CAAM chair, effective July 1 Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:53
Professor, who joined the Rice faculty in 2007, was named INFORMS fellow in 2020.

Rice approves new Operations Research major Tue, 03/30/2021 - 14:07
New BA degree in CAAM department will become available to students in the fall.

Richard Tapia recognized with Two Sigma gift for research, mentorship Mon, 03/22/2021 - 09:31
University Professor receives $75,000 for 'outstanding, continuing research or teaching/mentoring methods that advance diversity, inclusion, and equity within STEM fields.'

Adam Subel's late-blooming interest in machine learning, climate dynamics is paying off Tue, 03/16/2021 - 08:37
Hassanzadeh lab undergraduate student recently published a first-authored paper in Physics of Fluids, a major journal in fluid mechanics.

Diaz awarded Ken Kennedy Institute graduate fellowship Thu, 12/10/2020 - 14:14
Fellowships support research, conferences, travel and networking.

CAAM junior wins Texas Energy Summit poster competition Wed, 11/25/2020 - 10:37
Ricky Morse in the research group of environmental engineer Daniel Cohan.