The study of algorithms for numerical approximation

Postdoctoral Researcher and prison education advocate Kate Pearce was awarded the NSF-DMS Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her work on rank-structured matrix compression and building mathematics course offerings at Lockhart Women's Correctional Facility. 

Mary F. Wheeler, best known for her work in finite element analysis and porous media problems, retired in August 2024.

Her research uses an interdisciplinary approach to solve grand challenges with applications from environmental remediation, carbon storage, thermal energy to ideas in predictive surgery.

Kun Huang's dissertation focuses on advancing numerical methods for solving the kinetic equation in plasma physics. 

Jonathan Zhang, a third-year CSEM Graduate Student, explores his journey to the Oden Institute and the impact of community on his experience.

The Mathematical Theory of Finite Elements, a work that began as a collection of lecture notes, has developed into a powerful addition to Core Faculty Member Leszek Demkowicz's collection of published textbooks. 

Guests from around the globe gathered for a celebratory workshop on April 11 in honor of Leszek Demkowicz’s 70th Birthday.

Presentations spanned topics related to Leszek’s life work

Winner of the 2023 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel Prize equivalent in mathematics. 

He is the first Latin American mathematician to receive the award and the second in four years from UT Austin.

• Named in memory of Dr. Ivo Babuška’s late wife, Renata, who passed away in 2020
• The prize will be awarded in recognition of high-quality interdisciplinary work targeting modeling and numerical solutions of a specific engineering or scientific application

• Award brings together scientists and engineers from different research communities to further the theoretical foundations of data science
• Researchers aim to combat data sets that include historical biases and elements influenced by self-interested and possibly malicious parties

• Householder Prize recognizes best numerical linear algebra dissertation produced within the past three years 
• Second award in 14 months for Heather Wilber's ‘Computing Numerically with Rational Functions’

• Event honored 16 students that graduated in May 2022, as well as eight other students who graduated throughout the 2021-2022 academic year
• "Congratulations to all our PhD and Master's graduate students. Collectively, you represent an incredible set of accomplishments spanning computing, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, engineering, science, geoscience, and medicine."

• Award recognizes Oden Institute core faculty who have demonstrated a sustained record of distinguished research in computational engineering and sciences
• Ward has made significant contributions to stochastic gradient descent, compressive sensing and randomized linear embeddings

• New scholarship funded by the Ivo & Renata Babuška Endowed Excellence Fund
• Bronson Zhou is most drawn towards probability, algebra and the use of applied mathematics in neuroscience research

• Awards Ceremony finally held in-person after two years of hiatus from COVID  
• Staff, students and faculty celebrated and recognized for their significant contributions throughout the year

• Five successful applicants gain the opportunity to tackle some of society's most pressing challenges 
• Researchers will take on a broad range of challenges - from water efficiencies, materials science at the exascale,  the development of more energy-efficient algorithms, as well as advancing individualized care for breast cancer patients     

• Project outlining improvements in turbulence modeling of major signficance to those studying "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics" 
• PhD graduate Gopal Yalla designs filters using underlying numerical operators explicitly

• Pivotal figure at the Oden institute may have retired from UT Austin but still as busy as ever
• "For a computer scientist - a true computer scientist - it is all about exposing the system”

• Significant honor puts Wohlmuth in the company of scientific figures like Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Charles Darwin and Marie Curie
• Her election to the German National Academy of Sciences - as a computational applied mathematician – establishes the field as a principal core area for scientific knowledge

• Newly retired Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering and Core Faculty at the Oden Institute, Gregory Rodin is an expert in the field of computational micromechanics
• He is also a big advocate for scientists trusting their own intuition

• First time Oden Institute participates in 40 hours for the Forty Acres  
• Annual UT Austin fundraising event now in its ninth year

• Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics inducted with Tayfun Tezduyar from Rice University
• Tezduyar and Hughes first non-Japanese so honored by JACM