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UW-Madison mathematics Ph.D. program ranked in the top ten in the 2011 NRC ranking. In the 2010 NRC ranking of Ph.D. programs  (see http://graduate-school.phds.org/),  the mathematics Ph.D. program at UW-Madison was ranked between 6 and 15 in the R-ranking (NRC regression-based quality score), and between 6 and 16 in the S-ranking (NRC survey-based quality score). In both rankings the average values placed our Ph.D. program in the top ten in the nation.  Also In the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) (http://www.arwu.org/index.jsp), the UW Mathematics department was ranked No. 12 in the world, and No. 9 in the nation.

  • Congratulations to these three Math Dept TAs who have won campus wide teaching awards from the College of Letters and Sciences: (5 December 2011)
    • Derek Garton Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award
    • Edward Hanson Innovation in Teaching Award
    • Christelle Vincent Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award
  • Congratulations to postdoc Gerardo Hernandez-Duenas who was awarded 2011 Youth Prize from the state of Colima, Mexico in the
    Academic Category. The 12 categories include Academics, Civics, Environmental Protection, Research and Technological Development, Arts and Community Development. Altogether, there were 800 participants, 12 categories and 12 winners.
  • Congratulations to Mischa Feldman who was awarded the SIAG/APDE Prize. More information about this SIAM sponsored prize is here.
  • Congratulations to Benedek Valko, who just won an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. This award is one of the most prestigious honors given to a young faculty member in science and engineering.
  • Congratulations to Edward Hanson who was selected by the L&S Teaching Assistant Instructional Development Program Committee as an L&S Teaching Fellow for year 2011. Selection and participation as a Teaching Fellow recognizes the high quality of his performance as a teaching assistant.
  • Congratulations to Shirin Malekpour who has been chosen as a recipient of the L&S Early Career Award by the L&S Academic Staff Professional Development Commitee. The award recognizes individuals who demonstrate outstanding performance in their position, show substantial promise of future contributions, and demonstrate a high degree of professionalism.
  • Professor Mikhail Feldman received a Vilas Associates Award from the graduate school. This award provides summer research support for two years and a flexible research fund for scholarly activities.
  • Congratulations to Andrej Zlatos for winning an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. This award of $498K is one of the most prestigious honors which can be given to a young faculty member in science.
  • Congratulations to Nicos Georgiou for winning a campus-wide TA award.  This award of $500 recognizes the high quality of his work as a teaching assistant in the Math department.
  • Congratulations to Uri Andrews for winning the prestigious Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic worldwide in 2010! This award, named after Harvard/MIT logician Gerald Sacks, is awarded by the Association for Symbolic Logic each year to one or two young logicians. Uri was the only recipient this year, for his thesis entitled   "Amalgamation Constructions in Recursive Model Theory"
    under the direction of Tom Scanlon.
  • UW Math Rankings:
  • NAGEL AND WAINGER RECEIVE BERGMAN PRIZE Alexander Nagel and Stephen Wainger of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have been awarded the 2007-08 Stefan Bergman Prize for their fundamental contributions in collaborative work in the the study of Bergman and Szego kernels, the geometry of control (Carnot-Caratheodory) metrics associated to vector fields, and the initial breakthroughs for singular integrals on curves, culminating in a general theory of singular Radon transforms. The Bergman Prize honors the memory of Stefan Bergman, best known for his research in several complex variables, as well as the Bergman projection and the Bergman kernel function. Read more about the prize at this link
  • Emeritus Professor Walter Rudin died on Thursday, May 20.  Here is the Wisconsin State Journal obituary and the UW Math obituary
  • Professor Timo Seppalainen was recently elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The Fellowship is a way of honoring the outstanding research and professional contributions of the members of INS, contributions which help keep IMS in a leading role in the field of statistics and probability. See http://www.imstat.org/awards/fellows.htm.
    Each newly elected Fellow will be welcomed and presented with a plaque at the IMS Annual Meeting during the in Gothenburg, Sweden, http://www.ims-gothenburg.com/. The presentation and reception will take place at the IMS Presidential Address on Tuesday, August 10 at 6:00 p.m.
  • Math Department's 2010 newsletter
  • Zajj Daugherty is one of fifteen UW Madison TAs who received an award for service from the College of Letters and Science
  • Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department Shi Jin received a Vilas Associates Award from the graduate school. This award provides summer research support for two years and a flexible research fund for scholarly activities.
  • Prof. Jordan Ellenberg was awarded an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship by the Graduate School Research Committee.
    This fellowship is named in honor of H.I. Romnes, later Trustee President of the WARF. With this fellowship, the University recognizes proven potential and provides an opportunity for critical judgement by the Fellow on the best strategies for development of an outstanding research program.
  • KATHRIN BRINGMANN to receive the Sastra Ramanujan Prize.  Kathrin was formerly a postdoc with Prof. Ken Ono. The $10,000 prize will be awarded on Dec. 22, 2009 during an International Conference on Number Theory at Sastra University in Kumbakonen, India, Ramanujan's hometown.
  • Great Lakes Geometry Conference will be held April 10-11 in Madison, WI.
  • Gautam Bharali (PhD 2002, Nagel) Hindustan Times, August 22, 2009 - GUWAHATI, Aug. 22 -- The Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi has awarded the INSA medal for young scientists, 2009 to Dr Gautam Bharali of the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, a press release stated. Dr Gautam Bharali, son of Utpalananda Bharali and Purabi Bharali, is currently an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department of Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1997 and received PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA in 2002. He had been an assistant professor in Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor before he returned to India, the release added.
  • NSF awards major training grant to UW Number Theory/Algebraic Geometry group. Effective August 1, 2009, the UW Department of Mathematics will be awarded a $1.6 million Research Training Group (RTG) grant from the National Science Foundation. Professors Ono (PI) and Ellenberg (Co-PI) are the principal investigators on this grant which will support training in Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. The RTG grants are part of the NSF initiative to enhance the mathematical sciences workforce in the 21st century and will fund numerous programs, as well as provide support for graduate students, undergraduates and postdocs.
  • Kathrin Bringmann, a former Van Vleck Assistant Professor (2004-2007) who worked in Number Theory, has been awarded the 2009 Alfred Krupp Research Prize.
    The board of curators of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation awards an annual prize to scientists of the younger generation working in the natural sciences and engineering. The aim of the prize is to improve the scope and research opportunities available to professors of C3 rank by providing research and equipment funding to the tune of 1 million Euros.
    Kathrin, who has positions at both the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and the University of Cologne, is just the 2nd mathematician to ever win the prize.
  • Prof. Fedor Nazarov has been selected to give a 45-minute invited lecture in the analysis section of the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2010. An invitation to speak at the ICM, the most important math conference held every four years, is a prestigious honor for a mathematician.
  • Siam Fellows: Richard Askey, Carl deBoor, Seymour Partter and Paul Rabinowitz are named as Siam Fellows.
  • The 2009 newsletter is here!
  • David Griffeath and Janko Gravner develop computer model for snowflakes.
  • Dilip Raghavan (PhD 2008 with advisors Kunen and Kastermans) received the Sacks Prize for best thesis in Logic. This is an international prize.
  • The UW Math Department has received a $100000 gift from the estate of Richard Good. Professor Good received his AB from Ashland College in Ohio, and his MA and PHD from our department in 1940 and 1945 (his Ph.D. advisor was Richard Bruck). He taught at the University of Maryland. His wife also was a UW graduate who earned a master's and PhD degree from another department (not math).
  • Three Wisconsin REU students win prizes at the Joint Math Meetings. Three Wisconsin REU students were awarded national prizes at the Joint Math Meetings largely for their work in the Wisconsin VIGRE REUs organized by Professor Ken Ono. Aaron Pixton (REU 2006) was awarded the 2009 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize (http://www.ams.org/ams/press/morgan-2009.html), awarded for outstanding research by an undergraduate student. Maria Monks (REU 2008) was awarded the 2009 Alice T. Schafer Prize by the Association for Women in Mathematics (http://www.ams.org/ams/prizebooklet-2009.pdf), awarded for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman. Doris Dobi (REU 2007) was awarded the runner-up prize in the competition. Ono will be running an REU in 2009 in Number Theory. Application materials are available at (http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ono/reu09.html). The deadline for applications is January 31, 2009.
  • Paul Rabinowitz received an honorary degree from Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, in late January, 2009.
  • Six of our graduate students, Samuel Eckels, Benjamin Ellison, Matthew Felton, Nikos Georgiou,  Daniel McGinn and Christelle Vincent were selected by the Campus-wide TA Award committee to receive the 2008 Teaching Assistant awards. This award recognizes their high quality performance as teaching assistants and their impressive contributions to the educational mission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Each winner will receive a prize of $500. A reception and award ceremony in their honor will be held in February. Congratulations to Samuel, Benjamin, Matthew and Daniel!
  • Mathematicians land top spot in the Wall Street Journal's new ranking of the best occupations in the U.S.

  • Just for fun: See a slide show of the helicopter which delivered new elevators for Van Vleck.

  • Alex Nagel is among seven members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty who have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was honored for fundamental work on singular Radon transforms, oscillatory and singular integrals, the Carnot metric with applications to subelliptic estimates and several complex variables. You can read more about this here.
  • Yiming Long (Ph.D 87, Paul Rabinowitz), currently Professor and Director of the Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University Tianjin, China, was recently elected a fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). See the news release. According to the citation, "Long has made fundamental contributions to Hamiltonian dynamics. In particular, he is acknowledged for his iteration theory for symplectic matrix paths, and for his deep studies on periodic solution orbits of Hamiltonian systems. A member of the Chinese Academy of Science, he has received the 2004 TWAS Prize in Mathematics, the Natural Sciences Award (first class), the SS Chern Prize and the Qiushi Foundation Prize".
  • Leslie Smith, former chair of the Math Department, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for important and insightful contributions to the understanding of turbulence in engineering and geophysical flows through theory and numerical simulations". The APS's Division of Fluid Dynamics recommended the nomination, which was conferred at the APS council meeting in September 2008. No more than one half of one percent of APS members are fellows.
  • Olga Holtz (PhD 2000, Hans Schneider) is one of 10 recipients of the European Math Society's 2008 prize. The prize is given every four years. Awardees must be below 35 years age, and to be either born or work in Europe.
  • Information about the Annual Wisconsin Reunion at the January Joint AMS/MAA meetings.
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