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Postdoc Ming-Chen Hsu wins Chancellor's Dissertation Medal Postdoc Ming-Chen Hsu wins Chancellor's Dissertation Medal

ICES Postdoc Ming-Chen Hsu has won the 2013 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal from the University of California, San Diego for his dissertation entitled "Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of Wind Turbines."

As the winner selected by engineering faculty, the medal recognizes “outstanding Ph.D. research” in engineering as one of six divisional areas. This is the first year the medal was awarded.

Before pursuing his Ph.D. with Professor Yuri Bazilevs at UC San Diego, Ming-Chen Hsu earned his master's degree in aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at UT. During that time he served as a research assistant for ICES Professor Thomas Hughes. Read more.

Posted: May 30, 2013
  
Beckner elected chair of UT Faculty Council Beckner elected chair of UT Faculty Council

ICES Professor William Beckner was elected chair of the university's Faculty Council for the academic year 2014-15. The position designates him to serve on the executive committee for three years--as chair-elect for 2013-14, as chair the following year, and as past chair the next year.

The chair presides over the council and serves as a member of the council’s agenda-setting group. The executive committee meets monthly with President Powers to discuss and advise on educational, institutional, and faculty matters. The Faculty Council is responsible for evaluating, monitoring, and recommending all UT Austin undergraduate curricular changes and degree programs. The Faculty Council is comprised of 70 elected faculty members, 7 student members, and 33 ex officio administrative members (without vote). Read more.

Posted: May 15, 2013
  
Tsai wins national Simon Fellowship Tsai wins national Simon Fellowship

Richard Tsai, ICES Professor, was awarded a 2013 Simons Fellowship from the Simons Foundation who made the announcement in the New York Times. Simons Fellows receive compensation for a full year of academic leave to focus solely on research. Tsai, associate professor of mathematics, will concentrate on developing theories for a class of novel boundary integral methods defined on Lipschitz implicit interfaces, and their applications.

A committee of distinguished scientists advised the Foundation on selection of applicants. Awards are based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishment in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the leave period. The list of recipients was published in the May 7 issue of the New York Times.

Posted: May 8, 2013
  
CSEM Student Ju Liu wins Melosh Medal CSEM Student Ju Liu wins Melosh Medal

CSEM Student Ju Liu has won the Robert J. Melosh Medal for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis. His paper, "A Thermodynamically Consistent Algorithm for Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions in Complex Geometries," was reviewed by top scholars in computational mechanics and selected based on the quality of both the paper and his oral presentation. Liu’s advisor is ICES Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes.

Three of the six medal finalists were from ICES. The other two finalists were Michael Borden, a postdoctoral fellow, and Ernesto Lima, a CSEM visiting fellow. Read more.

Posted: May 8, 2013
  
Rachel Ward Receives Young Investigator grant Rachel Ward Receives Young Investigator grant

Rachel Ward, assistant professor of mathematics and ICES faculty member, received a $360,000 U.S. Air Force Young Investigator grant. The prestigious U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research program seeks to enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators by supporting scientists who received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years. Ward’s 3-year grant will support her work in deriving efficient strategies for acquiring high-dimensional data with known low-dimensional structure, driven by applications to Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Uncertainty Quantification.

Posted: May 2, 2013