University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 …

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!

Jordan Ellenberg to speak at Focus on the Humanities lecture

Jordan Ellenberg will speak at a Focus on the Humanities lecture on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 5:00pm.  The lecture will be held in the Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Ave., Madison, WI. Mathematics is often thought of as a source of certain knowledge, the domain in which we know precisely what things are …

Boyana Martinova receives Capstone Teaching Award

It is a great pleasure to announce that one of our graduate students earned a Campus-Wide TA Award by the Campus-Wide TA Award Committee for the 2025-2026 academic year. Boyana Martinova was chosen for a Capstone Teaching Award, which recognizes TAs at the end of their graduate program with an outstanding teaching record over the course of their …

Announcing the new Master of Science in Applied and Computational Mathematics

The MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics provides students with a rigorous, modern training in applied and computational mathematics and in the mathematics of data.  The program is targeted to students with an undergraduate degree in mathematics or other quantitative disciplines such as computer science, statistics, economics and engineering. Through foundational and advanced coursework, students …

Poltoratski, Arinkin and Seeger receive Simons Fellowships

Congratulations to Alexei Poltoratski, Dima Arinkin, and Andreas Seeger for being recipients of the 2026 Simons Fellowship! Once again this is a very impressive haul for our department; about 50 are awarded across all math departments in the US and Canada each year. Our department has received 23 of these since 2012. Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees