2003 News

  • Photos: from APAM 25th celebration and banquet in honor of Professor C. K. Chu (November 2003)

  • Professor David Keyes joins Columbia as new Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics (August 2003)

  • Photos: Celebration at Arden House (June 2003)

  • Professor Stephen O'Brien, IBM, and MRSEC Scientists announce first 3-D assembly of magnetic and semiconducting nanoparticles. (June, 2003)

  • Professor Mark Cane won the Scripps Institute of Oceanography's Cody Prize. (2003)

  • Professor Guillaume Bal was named a 2003 Alfred P. Sloan fellow, a highly competitive award involving nominations of the very best young scientists in the nation. Guillaume’s research concerns time reversal and inverse problems in wave and particle propagation. (2003)

  • Professor William Bailey won the prestigious NSF Career and ARO/Young Investigator Grants in 2003. Bill’s research is on atomic scale engineering and in-situ analysis of materials for spin electronics. (2003)

  • Professor Lorenzo Polvani successfully lead a University-wide team to secure an NSF funded IGERT graduate education program that will bring together applied mathematicians and earth and environmental scientists and engineers to provide Ph.D. students with the skills required to address global-scale problems at the interface of earth science and mathematics. (2003)

  • Professor Irving Herman, director of Columbia’s Center for Nanostructured Materials, was awarded $7.4 million from the NSF for an interdepartmental five-year program exploring how to form nanocrystals made of metal oxides and how to form films from these nanocrystals. (2003)


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