Three Applied Math graduate students competed in the 2015 Three-Minute Thesis competition, in which students have one slide and three minutes to explain their thesis research to a general audience.
Applied math undergraduate Shouzhen Gu, along with teammates Shun Da Suo and Wuhan Zhou in the BBA/BCS program, have won a silver medal in the 2014 University Physics Competition for their contribution on circumbinary planets. The competition attracted contributions from 131 teams, and awarded 2 gold and 23 silver medals.
The Physics News website phys.org has highlighted work by three applied math researchers: PhD student Robert Jonsson, Research Assistant Professor Eduardo Martín-Martínez, and Professor Achim Kempf.
