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Animations that are true to life

UC Merced UC Merced News highlighted Department of Mathematics visiting assistant professor, Vu Thai Luan’s research collaboration. Professor Luan is developing computational tools that will allow animators to produce the next generation of true-to-life simulations. Imagine going to see the latest Pixar movie. You’re sitting in the theater enjoying the film, when you begin to notice […]

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SMU mathematics professor volunteers time and leadership at national and international scientific conferences

Dedman College News Originally Posted: March 14, 2018 As part of his service to the scientific community, Vladimir Ajaev, SMU professor of mathematics was involved in organization of several conferences. He was a member of the Organizing Committee for the Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Mechanics (BIFD-2017) Meeting in Houston, TX (July 2017), Co-Chair of the […]

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Celebrating women in Math; our SMU-Math alumni

Originally Posted: March 6, 2018 In honoring women’s accomplishments in Math and Sciences, several professional organizations are highlighting stories in different venues. The March issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society showcases 27 outstanding mathematicians. On behalf of the SMU Department of Mathematics, I would like to recognize some recent alumni who earned […]

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Event: April 5, Mathematics Department Colloqium: Miguel Zapata

Date: April 5, 2018 Time: 3:45-4:45 pm Location: 126 Clements Hall A 3D free-surface model using an unstructured finite-volume technique. Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Math/Seminars    

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SMU mathematics professor receives NASA research grant

Dedman College News Originally Posted: Feb. 28, 2018 Vladimir Ajaev, SMU professor of mathematics is the PI on a research grant from NASA, awarded in 2017. The key objective of the proposed work it to develop mathematical models of advanced two-phase cooling systems for thermal management of future spacecraft using the data from a recent experiment […]

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Mathematics professor Vladimir Ajaev’s work on levitation of microdroplets has been highilighted in International Physics venues.

Dedman College News Originally Posted: Feb. 15, 2018 Vladimir Ajaev, SMU professor of mathematics and his collaborators published a paper in Physical Review Letters, one of the top scientific journals in both physics and applied mathematics. The model developed by professor Ajaev resolved a long-standing controversy about the mechanism of levitation of microdroplets supported by an […]

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Search Assistant Prof. in Computational and Applied Mathematics

Check here for detailed announcement to appear in early Fall 2018

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Nation’s electric grid — a complex mathematical system — is dramatically changing

SMU Research Originally Posted: April 5, 2017 Deregulation of the U.S. electric markets, the emergence of renewable sources of energy and new technologies means there are large risks to the grid. Our nation’s electric grid is changing dramatically due to deregulation of electric markets, the introduction of renewable sources of energy such as solar and […]

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Event: March 2 Exact geometric approach to the discretization of fluid-structure interactions and the dynamics of tubes conveying fluid

Event Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Vakhtang Poutkaradze (University of Alberta) Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Math/Seminars  

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Event: Nov. 30. A Cubic Scaling Algorithm For Excited States Calculations In pp-RPA

Event Date: November 30, 2016 Location: Clements Hall 126 Time: 3:30–4:30 (Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the talk) Mathematics Colloquium Talk by Haizhao Yang (Duke University) Link for more information: https://wiki.smu.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104268135