Travel grant from the American Institute for Mathematics proving groups with one week of uninterrupted working time and office space in Pasadena, California for three years (2025 - 2027)
Papers:
H. Kravitz, C. Durón, B. Nieves*, and M. Brio, “Data-driven optimization and parameter estimation for a metric graph epidemic model with applications to COVID-19 spread in Poland: a real-world example of optimization for a challenging Rosenbrock-type objective function,” International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 750 – 778, Oct 2025. DOI: 10.36922/IJOCTA025220106
C. Durón, H. Kravitz, and M. Brio, “Edge percolation centrality: a new measure to quantify the influence of edges during percolation in networks,” PLOS One, vol. 20, no. 9, e0331475, Sep 2025. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331475
$11,931 awarded for a student research assistant and course buyout during the academic year 2024-2025.
Advisees: Mimi Tran and Bryttani Nieves (funded as a summer researcher through the grant), both successfully graduated with their B.S. degrees.
H. Kravitz, C. Durón, B. Nieves*, and M. Brio, “Data-driven optimization and parameter estimation for a metric graph epidemic model with applications to COVID-19 spread in Poland: a real-world example of optimization for a challenging Rosenbrock-type objective function,” International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 750 – 778, Oct 2025. DOI: 10.36922/IJOCTA025220106
M. Tran. “Investigating an Energy-Preserving Spectral Finite Difference Numerical Method for a Wave Equation on the Metric Graph,” Portland State University Honors Thesis, June 2026
M. Tran, "Investigating an Energy-Preserving Spectral Finite Difference Numerical Method for a Wave Equation on the Metric Graph" PSU Honors College Thesis Symposium, June 2026
M. Tran, "Investigating an Energy-Preserving Spectral Finite Difference Numerical Method for a Wave Equation on the Metric Graph," PSU Mathematics and Literature Problems Seminar, June 2026
B. Nieves*, “Global Sensitivity Analysis of a Metric Graph Model for COVID-19 Spread in Poland,” Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar (NUMS), Nov 2025.
B. Nieves, "Parameter estimation for the metric graph SIR model," PSU Applied & Computational Mathematics Seminar, Feb 2025.
Awarded by the University of Arizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, includes a stipend for textbooks and a featured departmental seminar "Metric graphs: spectral methods, localization, and applications"
Awarded by the Phoenix Chapter of the ARCS Foundation, a $10,000 per year and a reduced teaching load for academic years 2020 - 2022
AMS Special Session Spring Western Sectional Meeting, Boise State University, Boise, ID, Mar 2026.
Co-organized with C. Durón
SIAM Pacific Northwest Section Biennial Meeting Special Session, Seattle, WA, Oct 2025.
Co-organized with J. Ovall
“Mixed-dimensional PDE models of epidemic spread: a 1D/2D framework,”
American Mathematical Society Spring Western Sectional Meeting, Boise, ID, Mar 2026
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Pacific Northwest Section Biennial Meeting: Recent Advances in Analysis of Nonlinear PDEs, Seattle, WA, Oct 2025.
“Rosenbrock-type optimization challenges in network epidemic models,” Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Pacific Northwest Section Biennial Meeting: Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis, Seattle, WA, Oct 2025.
“Metric graphs: Spectral methods, localization, and applications,” Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar (NUMS), Portland, OR, Nov 2024 (keynote speaker).
“A coupled spatial-network model for epidemiology,” Workshop on Metric Networks, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2024 (with C. Durón).
“Computational methods for PDEs on metric graphs,” Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Pacific Northwest Section Biennial Meeting: Computational PDEs: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications Mini-Symposium, Bellingham, WA, Oct 2023.
“Metric graphs: spectral methods, localization, and applications,”
Reed College Mathematics Colloquium, Nov 2025.
PSU PSU Applied & Computational Mathematics Seminar, Nov 2022.
University of Arizona Al Scott Lecture, Apr 2022.
“Python for data science,” PSU Data Science Seminar, Nov 2024.
“Math, history, and religion,” PSU Complex Systems Seminar, May 2024.
“A coupled spatial-network model for epidemiology,”
University of Florida Systems Medicine Seminar, Nov 2023 (with C. Durón).
Texas A&M MathBiology/MathPhysics Seminar, Dec 2022.