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Hector D. Ceniceros 
Professor of Mathematics
Applied Math Graduate Academic Advisor

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:

  • Plenary speaker, American Mathematical Society, Western Section, Spring 2011 Meeting, Las Vegas NV, 2011.
  • Keynote speaker, Davis SIAM Research Conference, Davis CA, 2010.
  • Plenary speaker, XX National School of Optimization and Numerical Analysis (ENOAN), Morelia, Mexico, 2010.
  • 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