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Virtual Meeting Best Practices

We’re all in a lot of virtual meetings these days thanks to COVID-19. As we continue to shelter at home, I’ve been trying to optimize my online meeting experience. In this post, I share what I consider to be best practices.

Elected to NAE

Humbled to announce that I’m one of the 87 new members of the National Academy of Engineering.

Interview Advice

Just in time for the 2019-2020 interview season, I’m resurfacing posts with interview advice including asking good questions during interviews and preparing interview talks.

ACM Fellow

Happy to report that I’ve been named a 2019 ACM Fellow for innovations in algorithms for tensor decompositions, contributions to data science, and community leadership.

Math Impacts Study

I am excited to announce that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has convened an ad hoc committee of experts to prepare narratives and graphics to identify and illustrate the impact of the mathematical sciences, and I am chairing the committee.

CSE19 Education Talk

At SIAM CSE19, I presented a talk on a DOE Lab Perspective on CSE Education which included specific recommendations for graduate education. Several persons asked for the slides, which are available here.

As a preview, the recommendations are…

  • Make side projects integral to the program
  • Explicitly develop communication skills
  • Require major programming project
  • Encourage leadership and teaming
  • Develop “soft skills” curriculum

(CSE = Computational Science & Engineering)

SIMODS has Launched!

SIMODS has published its first set of articles.

Tamara Kolda Named EIC of New SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science

See Sandia’s article about my new role as EIC for SIMODS: http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/2019/01-18/Kolda.html.

Sam Sherman's Summer Internship Story

Read the story Sharing applied mathematics with the world from Sam’s 2018 NSF-sponsored internship working with me at Sandia National Labs.

SIMODS Word Cloud

Just for fun, some of the terms from submissions in the first six months of SIMODS. This was generated using the titles, abstracts, and keywords from all the submissions that went for full review.