About Me

Version 2

I am a fourth year graduate student in the UCLA Mathematics Department. My advisor is Joseph Teran.

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Research

Interests: applied and computational mathematics, computer graphics, numerical PDEs, physics-based simulation, finite element methods, material point methods.

Publications

Chen, Jingyu, Victoria Kala, Alan Marquez-Razon, Elias Gueidon, David A. B.Hyde, and Joseph Teran. “A Momentum-Conserving Implicit Material Point Method for Surface Tension with Contact Angles and Spatial Gradients.” In “SIGGRAPH 2021 Technical Papers (accepted).” ACM TOG40, no. 4(2021). arXiv: 2101.12408 [cs.GR]. fileicon PDF videoicon Video

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Kala, Victoria, Katherine Guo, Elizabeth Swantek, Alan Tong, Monique Chyba, Yuriy Mileyko, Chris Gray, Thomas Lee, and Alice Koniges. “Pandemics in Hawai’i: 1918 Influenza and COVID-19.” IARIA, 2020, 26-31.

 

Teaching

I do not have any teaching responsibilities at this time.

For resources to my previous courses, click here.

 

Contact

Email me at victoriakala (at) ucla.edu.