Jordan Brown has been selected to be the Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Mathematics for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Congratulations, Jordan!!

Congratulations to Fuhui Fang and Mike Lee for successfully completing their PhDs.

Fuhui’s thesis is on Numerical Advances for Fluid-Structure Interactions in Entangled Polymer Solutions with Applications to Active Microbead Rheology. Fuhui will be starting a position at Microsoft in the Fall.

Mike’s thesis is on Simulating In Vitro Models of Cardiovascular Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods, Models, and Applications. Mike is off to a postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine.

Good luck, Fuhui and Mike!

Congratulations to Yanni Lai for successfully completing her PhD. Yanni’s thesis was on Multigrid Methods for the Bidomain Equations. Yanni has already started a position at Amazon in Seattle. Good luck, Yanni!

Congratulations to Ben Vadala-Roth, who successfully completed his oral qualifying exam on stabilization methods that improve the accuracy of nonlinear solid mechanics formulations used in the immersed finite element method and their application to modeling bicuspid aortic valves!

Congratulations to Yanni Lai for successfully defending her thesis, Multigrid Methods for the Bidomain Equations! Yanni is now finishing up some final revisions to her written thesis as the last step before completing her PhD requirements.

Congratulations to Aaron Barrett for successfully defending his thesis, An Adaptive Viscoelastic Fluid Solver: Formulation, Verification, and Applications to Fluid-Structure Interaction! Aaron is off to a postdoctoral position at the University of Utah in July.

Congratulations to Mike Lee, who successfully completed his oral qualifying exam on fluid-structure interaction models of bioprosthetic heart valves and in vitro validation of computational models of cardiovascular fluid dynamics!

In July, we welcomed two new postdoctoral researchers to the group: Saad Qadeer, who just finished his PhD in Applied Mathematics at UC-Berkeley, and David Wells, who is joining us from an RTG Postdoctoral Fellowship at RPI. Welcome to UNC!

We also said goodbye to Charles Puelz, who is starting a position as a Courant Instructor at NYU in the Fall, and to Michael Chambers, who is resuming his MD program at UNC. Good luck, Charles and Mike!

Congratulations to Elijah DeLee and Raveena Kshatriya, who both graduated in May. Elijah received his BS in Applied Mathematics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction, and Raveena received her BA with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics. Elijah will be working at RedHat in Raleigh, and Raveena is off to AIG in Charlotte. Good luck!