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Congratulations to Brandon Knutson, whose first-author paper On logical extrapolation for Mazes with Recurrent and Implicit Networks was accepted for oral presentation at AAAI-26! His work addresses the question "can certain kinds of neural networks really learn an algorithm?” in the context of a simple problem: find a path through a maze. His thorough and surprising results drew much interest from the reviewers. AAAI is a top conference in AI, and this year received a record-breaking number...

Congratulations to Cecilia Diniz Behn on being named the inaugural Joe and Jane Gray Endowed University Chair! Alumnus Joe Gray (Mines '68) established this chair to support a faculty member who is a leader at the intersection of biology/medicine and other STEM disciplines, reflecting his own career as a groundbreaking inventor of biomedical engineering technologies for cancer research. Cecilia’s work in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department and the Quantitative Biosciences and...

A paper (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw8997) co-authored by Dr. Dorit Hammerling and Mines colleagues Elizabeth Holley, Karlie Hadden, Rod Eggert, Erik Spiller, and Priscilla Nelson, and published in the prestigious journal Science, was recently cited during a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hearing. The Committee discussion, focused on byproduct recovery and critical mineral opportunities, included bipartisan recognition of Mines’ leadership in this area. Importantly,...

We are proud to share that Professor Deb Carney is part of a research team recently awarded a Gates Foundation grant. Project Title: Impact of Coordination and Common Course Model on Student OutcomesPrincipal Investigator: Chris Rasmussen (SDSU)Co-Principal Investigators: Deb Carney (Mines), Naneh Apkarian (SDSU) The project involves a mixed methods research design over two years, focusing on 12-15 math departments that coordinate foundational courses such as Precalculus, Calculus 1, and...

We congratulate Cash on receiving an Honorable Mention for his poster at the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics meeting in Breckenridge, CO!    

An image from a paper Dr. Brennan Sprinkle published with Ning Wu, Dave Marr, and Yan Gao made the cover of Nature Physics this month! The article “Direct observation of colloidal quasicrystallization” was published on March 31, 2025 in the Nature Physics journal.  Below is the link. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02859-z   Issue cover: Image: Gao Yan, David Marr, and Ning Wu, Colorado School of Mines Cover design: Laoise Mac Gabhann Nature Physics (Nat. Phys.) ISSN 1745-2481...

Congratulations again to Jordan Pettyjohn, who won first place in the 2024--2025 Grand Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) student research competition. Jordan qualified for this competition via his winning presentation at an ACM conference held in November 2024. For the grand final, Jordan's research paper was judged against first-place winners from twenty other ACM conferences held in 2024—2025. Jordan's work applies techniques from computational linear algebra to...

We are proud to announce that Isabella Chittumuri, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grant to conduct research. "Chittumuri, a PhD candidate in applied mathematics and statistics, will spend her Fulbright term conducting research in Hornafjörður, Iceland in collaboration with the University of Iceland, focusing on climate-induced vulnerabilities affecting glacier-based tourism and the surrounding community." (Rusch, "2 Mines students awarded Fulbright Scholarships...

Their co-authored paper, "Glycemia, Insulin Sensitivity, and Secretion Improve 3 Months Post-Sleeve Gastrectomy in Youth With Type 2 Diabetes," has been selected as a Featured Article in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. This prestigious recognition means their work will be prominently displayed at the top of top of the Journal of the Endocrine Society homepage for about a week. Congratulations!

AMS Professor Cecilia Diniz Behn has been selected as a mentor for the prestigious Beckman Scholars Program! This program will support 6 undergraduates through a mentored research experience in either chemistry, biological sciences, or related interdisciplinary fields. The highly selective program is funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, and Mines is one of only 14 selected participants nationwide. Read more about it in this article: Colorado School of Mines receives funding for...

Dr. Eileen Martin has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This prestigious award is given to scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their careers. Martin’s research portfolio and interests include work in near-surface, engineering, environmental and urban geophysics, analysis of large sensor networks, fiber-optic sensing, including distributed acoustic sensing, signal processing, imaging, and inverse...

Sweta Rai’s work, titled "Modeling Spatial Extremes using Non-Gaussian Spatial Autoregressive Models via Convolutional Neural Networks," has been selected as one of three honorable mentions in this year’s ASA ENVR Student Paper Competition. As part of this recognition, she has been invited to present in ENVR’s JSM Topic-Contributed Session at JSM 2025 in Nashville. Our congratulations to Sweta Rai!

AMS Professor Nathan Lenssen led the work that was included in several articles Nasa put out discussing the global temperatures in 2024. Lenssen and his colleagues reported the mathematical uncertainties of NASA's own temperature record, known as the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis, allowing NASA to better understand the limitations of the data they analyze and use to make predictions. The work was fully featured in NASA's "NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date" article and was mentioned in...