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What the lab has been up to — degrees conferred, awards, where people have landed, and where we have been speaking.
Four lab members spend the summer at national labs and Georgia Tech
Andersen Wall at AFRL, Joana Bou Barcelo and Liam Kunzendorf at Georgia Tech, and George Rauta at ARL Adelphi.
Tyler Hanks and Luke Morris receive their PhDs
The lab’s first two PhD graduates, hooded in May 2026 in front of a whiteboard still covered in sheaf notation.
A Brazilian category theory hub, from Ben Bumpus's group
Categorias Brasil — a repository for all things category theory in Brasil, built by Ben Bumpus’s student Paulo Vitor Macedo Dias.
George Rauta presents Decapodes CFD at WCCM–ECCOMAS
Low-Mach compressible Navier–Stokes on rectilinear grids, via discrete exterior calculus, in Munich.
Ben Bumpus is a professor at the University of São Paulo
A professorship at IME, where he now leads the CUÍCA lab — announced after a move across a continent and a first Carnaval.
Wilmer Leal promoted to research scientist
Now a research scientist in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with the Nonlinear Controls and Robotics group.
James Fairbanks named an ASEMFL Rising Star
The Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida recognised James Fairbanks at its 2025 Annual Meeting.
A minisymposium at SIAM Mathematics of Data Science
James Fairbanks organised a minisymposium at MDS24 in Atlanta, with Tyler Hanks, Evan Patterson and Henry Adams speaking.
Kris Brown joins the Topos Institute
A research scientist at Topos since 2022, still building the AlgebraicJulia libraries the rest of the ecosystem sits on.