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Hector D. Ceniceros 
Professor of Mathematics

Affiliated faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Core Member of the Computational Science and Engineering Program
Partner of the  Complex Fluids Design Consortium,
Faculty Advisor of the UCSB SACNAS Chapter

Research Area:  Applied and Computational Mathematics (visit my Research Gallery for pictures and animations)

Research Interests:

  • Free boundary problems in fluids and soft materials.
  • Complex fluids.
  • Adaptive methods.
  • Multi-scale phenomena.

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Editorial Activities: Honors:

  • Faculty Career Development Award. University of California Santa Barbara, 2003.
  • The Mochizuki Teaching Award, University of California Santa Barbara, 2002.

  • Former Graduate Students:

     PhD:
              William Lyons
              D. Harley Klein
     MA: 
             Aino Karniala

    Current PhD Students:       
                   Tanya L. Chantawansri
                   Jordan Fisher

    Postdocs:
    Chohong Min, 2004-2007.
    Marco A. Reyes-Huesca 2005-2006.