A University of Colorado Denver math and statistics faculty member has won a prestigious national award that will fund a research project most non-math majors probably couldn’t comprehend even the title of.
Julien Langou will get a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for a five-year-study of Foundations for Understanding and Reaching the Limits of Standard Numerical Linear Algebra.
The CAREER award, from the National Science Foundation, recognizes achievements and potential among researchers in the early stages of their careers. Langou’s is the third CAREER award to go to a member of the UCD faculty.
Despite the project’s esoteric title, the research promises results that could improve many aspects of everyday life, by leading to more accurate mathematical models for weather forcasting and automobile and aircraft design.
