Boise State University was well represented at the 2019 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Computational Science and Engineering Conference (CSE) held Feb. 25-March 1 in Spokane, Washington. With approximately 3,500 attendees, SIAM CSE is the largest meeting of researchers from academia, government labs and industry working in the field of computational science and engineering.
![Photo of Andrew Jones](https://www.boisestate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/164/2019/03/IMG_9409.jpg)
Computing PhD students Kathryn Drake and Andrew Jones both were awarded highly competitive travel award prizes from SIAM to attend the meeting, and mathematics graduate student Daniel Malmuth was awarded a travel award from the BSU Graduate College. Kathryn Drake also won the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Best Poster Prize at the meeting.
![Photo of Kathryn Drake](https://www.boisestate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/164/2019/03/IMG_94061.jpg)
For an entire list of Boise State presenters, please see below:
Math faculty associated with the Computing PhD program
- Associate Professor, Donna Calhoun, “ForestClaw: An Adaptive, Finite Volume, Cartesian Grid Solver Based on p4est”
- Assistant Professor Michal Kopera, “NUMO – A New Non-hydrostatic Ocean Model for Fjord Circulation and Ice-sheet/Ocean Interaction”
- Professor Jodi Mead, “Constrained Inversion for Subsurface Imaging”
- Professor Grady Wright, “A High-order Meshfree Semi-Lagrangian Method for Advection on Manifolds: Mass-conservation”
Graduate Student Poster Presenters
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- Kathryn Drake (doctoral student in computing), “Fast Algorithms for Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Data on Healpix Points”
- Andrew Jones (doctoral student in computing), “CFD Study of Varying Pebble Diameters in Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactors”
- Daniel Malmuth (master’s student in mathematics), “Meshfree Semi-Lagrangian Schemes for Advection on Surfaces: Polyharmonic Splines Augmented with Polynomials”
- Sage Shaw (master’s student in mathematics), “A Comparison of RBF-FD Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations on Surfaces”
Undergraduate Poster Presenter
- Scot Aiton (bachelor’s student in applied math, physics and computer science), “A Massively Parallel Solver for Poisson’s Equation on Block Structured Cartesian Grids”