Achievement

This was the first full year of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) program, a new $20M initiative at TAMU in collaboration with the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology. This year was designated Special Year in Mathematical and Computation Challenges in Materials Science and Engineering and featured 5 workshops both at TAMU and KAUST strongly overlapping with our IGERT; a number of IGERT students and faculty from different departments participated. IGERT coPI Walton is co-PI and Deputy Director for Education of IAMCS, and chaired two of these workshops. The IAMCS fellowship program parallels that of the IGERT, adding critical mass to our interdisciplinary efforts. Of 3 research cores, the IAMCS Forward Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (Efendiev, core leader) is tied particularly closely to the IGERT. Several additional IGERT faculty members are IAMCS participating investigators.