Yekaterina Epshteyn and colleagues win prestigious National Science Foundation Award Yekaterina Epshteyn, Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Utah, and her colleagues, Katayun Barmak, Philips Electronics Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Materials Science and Engineering at Columbia University, Professor Chun Liu, Department of Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Professor Jeffrey Rickman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Lehigh University, have won a four-year $1.8 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the program category Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF). DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness, which recognizes the importance of materials science and engineering to the well-being and advancement of society. The award will fund research to integrate grain growth experiments, data analytics, simulation, and theory. The grant is jointly funded by the Division of Mathematical Sciences and the Division of Materials Research.
Yekaterina Epshteyn
“Our team is extremely happy and grateful for the support provided by the NSF DMREF award,” said Epshteyn. “We’re thrilled to further pursue our interdisciplinary research, contribute to the training of the next-generation materials science and mathematics workforce, as well as work towards increasing diversity and broadening participation within STEM.” Epshteyn received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, held a three-year NSF-RTG (Research Training Group) postdoctoral fellow position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University, and joined the U’s Math Department in 2010.
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