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Bikrant Das Sharma

CAAM minor places first in mathematics, computer sciences division at Sigma Xi conference Monday, Nov. 16, 2020

Bikrant Das Sharma's winning project suggests correlation between CO2 emissions and gross domestic product.


nurse in operating room

Helping nurses help the sick Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020

CAAM researcher helps develop flexible mathematical models for multi-stage nurse scheduling in times of uncertain demand.


Juan Meza

Rice alumnus Juan Meza named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society Monday, Nov. 9, 2020

Meza '78 '79 '86 recognized for his 'contributions to the mathematical profession through leadership at the national level and to scientific computing and applications.'


Lynn Laverty Elsenhans speaking to George Webb

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans '78 invites RCEL students to explore career options Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020

Rice mathematical sciences alumna latest guest in 'Engineering Pathways' course.


Raul Garcia

Garcia awarded Ken Kennedy Institute fellowship Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020

Program aims to attract graduate students to Rice in the fields of computational science and engineering, high performance computing and data analytics.


Hicks

Hicks one of 12 researchers named a 2020 INFORMS fellow Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2020

CAAM professor recognized for his 'outstanding lifetime accomplishments and contributions in operations research and analytics.'


Maria “Cristina” Villalobos

CAAM alumna Villalobos receives mentoring award from White House Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley professor earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice in 1998 and 2000.


Jesse Chan and Ashok Veeraraghavan

Chan selected to NAE's U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Thursday, Jul. 2, 2020

Symposium's topics will include agriculture, energy, women’s health, plastics and other 'pioneering technical and leading-edge research.'


covid mask

Schaefer, Hicks, Huchette among Rice's final COVID-19 research grants Wednesday, May. 27, 2020

Third round backs research in optimization models to plan nursing schedules during times of uncertainty.