Spring 2020 APAM Newsletter
Spring 2020 - APAM Department Newsletter, Columbia Engineering
Message from the Chair:
Dear APAM Family,
It has become usual to say that these are unusual times.
They are unusual because our campus life was disrupted in an unprecedented manner by the Covid-19 situation, as we brought in-person classes to the remote format and stopped on-campus research in a matter of a week or so. Due to the amazing efforts of our staff, faculty, students and administration, we did a superb job in making this transition. Particularly heartwarming to us in APAM, were our remote celebrations of our seniors and senior award winners, the winner of our Simon Prize for the top doctoral thesis (and of the life of the late Dr. Jane Faggen who helped establish this prize), and of all our graduates this past year! They are unusual because we were again reminded that we must be inclusive, tolerant, respectful, and open to all types of people, and to help and nurture them all. This has been at the heart and soul of our great country. Though, of course, it has not been practiced perfectly and often not very well, these precepts and goals have been our great strengths, and hopefully these ideals and aspirations will continue to be our strengths, and be practiced better and better in our department, school, university, country, and world.
On a more upbeat note, the times are unusual because we just launched a new department website!
We now face the daunting task of beginning anew in a new academic year. We are resilient! We will survive and prosper!
Stay well,
Irving P. Herman
Chair, APAM
Student News
Schechter ‘20 Named Valedictorian
Mandal wins 2020 Simon Prize for Outstanding Dissertation
Student Spotlight: Jyotirmoy Mandal
Martin Wins Best Student Oral Presentation AMS Award
Faculty News
Billinge Wins EPDIC Distinguished Powder Diffractionist Prize
Lipson Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mauel Named National Associate of the Academies
Spiegelman Wins CEAA Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Applied Mathematics Program Awarded RTG Grant by the National Science Foundation
Coming Home to Math, a New Book by Herman
Beating the Heat in the Living Wings of Butterflies
First Study to Relate Antarctic Sea Ice Melt to Weather Change in the Tropics
Successful Ozone Treaty Stops Jet Stream Drift in the Southern Hemisphere
Engineering the Future of Cultural Preservation
Columbia Team Discovers New Way to Control the Phase of Light Using 2D Materials
Enabling New DNA-Based Therapy forAnti-Cancer Drug Delivery
Nano-objects of Desire: Assembling Ordered Nanostructures in 3-D
Gold in Limbo Between Solid and Melted States
Sobel on Climate & Coronavirus
A Rainbow of layered paints could help buildings keep their cool
APAM Faculty Featured in Columbia Engineering Magazine
Multimodal transcriptional control of pattern formation in embryonic development
Faculty, Alumni, & Department News
Tian ‘17 and Du Receive SIAM Review SIGEST Award
Deep Convection
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