University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jordan Ellenberg featured in L&S Magazine

Jordan Ellenberg was featured in the Spring 2026 issue of the College of Letters & Science biannual magazine.

Timo Seppäläinen delivers Doob Lecture at SPA 2026 conference

Timo Seppäläinen delivered the Doob Lecture at the 45th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA) held in Ithaca, NY, on June 14-20, 2026. SPA is the main annual international conference on probability theory and its applications, organized by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. In addition to plenary lectures, each SPA …

Brandis Whitfield awarded NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Brandis Whitfield was awarded an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Whitfield is an RTG Postdoctoral Trainee in the Geometry, Group Actions and Dynamics research group.  She works with Marissa Loving and Autumn Kent in the areas of geometric group theory and low-dimensional geometric topologies with general interests in mapping class groups (big and …

Sarah Strikwerda honored with 2026 Postdoc Excellence Award in Teaching

Sarah Strikwerda was awarded the Postdoc Excellence Award for Teaching.

Chris Rycroft honored with Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award

Chris Rycroft has received a Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. Eighteen professors received Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards, recognizing research and teaching excellence. The award provides flexible research funding for three years. Congratulations, Chris!

Geometry Labs United Conference in Madison, June 1-4

The fourth iteration of the Geometry Labs United conference will be held in Madison, WI from June 1-4. In addition to three plenary talks, it features short talks and posters by undergraduate students who did research in one of the GLU labs (like MXM!), and it has a day of outreach aimed at the broader …

Jordan Ellenberg elected as member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Jordan Ellenberg has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, chartered in 1780, was established to recognize accomplished individuals and engage them in addressing the greatest challenges facing the young republic. The first members elected to the Academy include George Washington, who said – in his first …

Incoming Grad Student receives NSF Fellowship

Ren Watson, currently an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as well as a CGRS Graduate Fellowship from UW-Madison. Ren is broadly interested in algebra, number theory, and combinatorics, with her past research focusing on additive number theory, arithmetic combinatorics, and algebraic geometry. At …

Jean-Luc Thiffeault named as 2026 SIAM Fellow

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) selected Jean-Luc Thiffeault as a member of its 2026 Class of SIAM Fellows. Thiffeault was recognized for many inventive approaches to the modeling and characterization of mixing, chaotic and complex flows, microorganism transport, braids, and dynamical systems. See the news outlet below: SIAM Announces 2026 Class of Fellows …

Alum Jiwoong Jang and Hung Tran receive Best Paper Award

Jiwoong Jang, who got his PhD here in 2024, and his former advisor Hung Tran have received the Best Paper Award 2025 for their publication in Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models.  Their paper is entitled “Discrete coagulation–fragmentation equations with multiplicative coagulation kernel and constant fragmentation kernel”. Announcement here: https://link.springer.com/journal/13662/updates/27848448 Congratulations, Hung and Jiwoong!