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  • 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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