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Established researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students in all related fields and industry are invited to the special workshop “Advances in Lie Theory, Representation Theory, and Combinatorics” at SLMath (MSRI) in Berkeley, California and online. This workshop will have a view to the future of a broad spectrum of topics including: This meeting will feature …
Sébastien has won a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, awarded by the Provost’s office. Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships (VDAP) recognize UW–Madison faculty members whose distinguished scholarship has advanced the confines of knowledge, and whose excellence also includes teaching or service. Faculty members receiving this award keep the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship title for the duration of …
John Cobb, who is advised by Michael Kemeny and Daniel Erman, has been awarded an NSF postdoc! Congratulations! https://johndcobb.github.io
Our own Marissa Loving has an article in February’s Notices! Especially of interest to those at the beginning of their careers. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202402/noti2877/noti2877.html
Jordan Ellenberg was recently published in an article in Nature. He collaborated with a group of researchers working with Google Deepmind to train artificial intelligence (AI) to better evaluate responses. This is intended to better train AI to consider how to answer the question and offer fact based responses instead of “hallucinating” data. The work …
Our recently-graduated PhD student Parvathi Kooloth has won one of the two AWM Dissertation Prizes, which will be presented at the JMM. Parvathi did her PhD under Leslie Smith’s supervision. Congratulations, Parvathi! *** The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2024 AWM Dissertation Prizes will be presented to Abigail Hickok …
Yue Sun, a student of Chris Rycroft, won the top prize in the “Gallery of Fluid Motion” competition at this year’s annual Americal Physical Society Fluids Meeting! She did her beautiful experiments in Saverio Spagnolie’s AMEP lab in Sterling Hall. The video is lovely and worth watching even if you’re not well-versed in fluids or math! …
Jordan Ellenberg is expanding the impact of his service to the UW by hosting a first-year student course on writing and data. First-year Interest Groups (FIGs) are usually groups of 3 classes that are open to only incoming freshmen and are part of a theme. These students take these courses together as a cohort and …
The Excellence in Research Graduate Student Awards go to Shi Chen Yuxi Han Phillip Harris Yunfan He Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott Jiwoong Jang Ruofan Jiang Daniel Levitin Yandi Wu Jiaming Xu The John Nohel Prize in Applied Mathematics Awards go to Aidan Howells Wilson Lough and Henry Schaerf Mathematics Graduate Awards go to Jacob Denson Jacob Fiedler Diego Rojas La Luz …
Autumn Kent has been named a 2024 fellow of the American Mathematical Society. The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Press Release: AMS NAMES 2024 CLASS OF FELLOWS Forty mathematical scientists from around the world have been …