University of Wisconsin - Madison
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 was awarded the Postdoc Excellence Award for Teaching.
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!
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …