This award is made as part of the FY 2017 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The title of the project for this fellowship to Evan Gawlik is "Finite Element Discretizations of Evolution Equations in Riemannian Geometry." The host institution for the fellowship is University of California, San Diego, and the sponsoring scientist is Michael Holst.