News Archive

This page archives news from 2023 and earlier. For recent updates, see the home page.

2023
  • Jae Youn Kim successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in August 2023.
  • German Villalobos successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in December 2023.
  • Received the Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity from the Division of Research at the University of Houston.
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros, M. Schulte, and B. Menze) the Dagstuhl Seminar on inverse biophysical modeling and machine learning in personalized oncology, January 8-13, 2023.
  • Co-organized (with J. Rudi and T. Bui-Thanh) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, Washington.
  • Co-organized (with A. Mamonov and D. Onofrei) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Annual Meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana, November 3-5, 2023.
  • Gave an invited colloquium at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • Gave an invited talk at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
  • Gave an invited talk at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
  • Gave an invited colloquium at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
  • Gave an invited talk at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado.
  • Participated in a workshop on learning for inverse problems at the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Rome, Italy, June 5-9, 2023.
  • Participated in a workshop on model- and data-driven methods in medical imaging at the Banff International Research Station, British Columbia, Canada, June 25-30, 2023.
  • Attended the 17th United States National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 23-27, 2023.
  • Attended a workshop on mathematical opportunities in digital twins at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, December 11-13, 2023.
2022
  • Received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (grant number DMS-2145845).
  • Received the Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston.
  • Book review selected as a Featured Review in SIAM Review (Volume 64, Number 2, 2022).
  • Member of the organizing committee of the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Annual Meeting at the University of Houston, November 4-6, 2022.
  • Co-organized (with A. Mamonov and D. Onofrei) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Annual Meeting, University of Houston.
  • Co-organized (with D. Labate) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, San Diego, California.
  • Co-organized (with T. Bui-Thanh) a mini-symposium at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros and M. Schulte) a mini-symposium on optimization, learning, and modeling in medical imaging at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
  • Co-organized (with N. Charon) a mini-symposium on shape matching and morphometry at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, San Diego, California.
  • Gave an invited talk at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
  • Presented work at the Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (held virtually), April 4-8, 2022.
2021
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (held virtually).
  • Co-organized (with H. Goh and T. Bui-Thanh) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the SIAM Annual Meeting (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (held virtually).
  • Gave an invited talk at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin (held virtually).
2020
  • Saeed Sarmadi successfully defended his doctoral dissertation (co-advised with R. Azencott) in December 2020.
  • Co-organized (with S. Subramanian) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Sectional Meeting (held virtually).
  • Co-organized (with D. Labate) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Sectional Meeting (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences (held virtually).
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (held virtually).
2019
  • Co-organized (with T. Bui-Thanh) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Sectional Meeting, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
  • Co-organized (with J. Herring) a mini-symposium at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia, Spain.
  • Co-organized (with J. Herring) a mini-symposium at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France.
  • Co-organized (with J. Herring and G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Spokane, Washington.
  • Gave an invited colloquium at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
  • Gave an invited talk at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France.
  • Presented work at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Presented work at the American Mathematical Society Fall Central Sectional Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • Presented work at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia, Spain.
  • Presented work at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference, Grenoble, France.
  • Presented work at a workshop at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
2018
  • Brenda Gonzalez received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Bologna, Italy.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon.
  • Presented work at the International Workshop on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Bologna, Italy.
  • Gave an invited colloquium at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
  • Visited the University of Stuttgart and gave an invited talk, June 11-22, 2018.
2017
  • Amir Gholami won the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC17), Denver, Colorado.
  • Work featured on the Texas Advanced Computing Center website.
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Presented work at the 14th United States National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
  • Presented work at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference, Hangzhou, China.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia.
2016
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Presented work at the International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC16), Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Gave an invited talk at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
2015
  • Co-organized (with G. Biros) a mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Participated in the IdeaLab at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Presented work at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Presented work at a workshop on numerical methods for optimal control and inverse problems at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
  • Gave an invited lecture at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
  • Attended the International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC15), Austin, Texas.
2014
  • Gave an invited talk at the University of Lübeck, Germany, December 2014.
  • Gave a talk at the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
  • Gave a talk in the DiaMonD seminar at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Attended the DiaMonD All-Hands Meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 12-14, 2014.