Awarded to students upon the completion of their dissertation work. The Ivo and Renata Babuška Student Award for Graduate Research in Mathematics is an award for an outstanding Ph.D. student dissertation in the field of computational mathematics in the Department of Mathematics. The award was established by our former colleague, Ivo Babuška, who made foundational scientific contributions in the field of computational mathematics, specifically, numerical methods for solving partial differential equations. Math/AMSC/Stat faculty may nominate students that defended their dissertation after September of the current academic school year. A nomination packet includes a copy of the dissertation and a 1-2 pages nomination letter written by the thesis advisor.

• 2023

Lucas Bouck: Liquid Crystal Variational Problems: Modeling, Numerical Analysis, and Computation
Advisor: Ricardo Nochetto

• 2022

Christopher Dock: U(R) Phase Retrieval, Local Normalizing Flows, and Higher Order Fourier Transforms
Advisor: Radu Balan

• 2021

Shuo Yang: Numerical analysis and computation of nonlinear variational problems in materials science
Advisor: Ricardo Nochetto