Nan Chen awarded Office of Naval Research Young Investigators Award
Nan has just received Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research — congratulations, Nan! Link: https://www.nre.navy.mil/2024-young-investigators
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Nan has just received Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research — congratulations, Nan! Link: https://www.nre.navy.mil/2024-young-investigators
Patrick Ahern died on September 26, 2023. He was an emeritus professor of our department, serving as a faculty member from 1966-2006. Pat was born in Albert Lea Minnesota in 1936, to Garrett Patrick and Marion Dorothy (Doran) Ahern. He graduated from Albert Lea high school, where his father was a math teacher and football …
Quanta Magazine recently published an article on the many conjectures resting on the Kaketa conjecture. Betsy Stovall commented in the article. Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-tower-of-conjectures-that-rests-upon-a-needle-20230912/
Saverio Spagnolie recently published an Arxiv paper on what started as a simple exploration of the behavior of raisins in carbonated water, something he noticed during a kitchen experiment with his daughter. As he proceeded to examine the behavior, more and more interesting observations also emerged, such as how bubbles push objects in carbonated fluids up …
A new AMS Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing is named after our esteemed Emeritus colleague Martin Isaacs. The prize is for a paper published in a primary AMS journal in the previous two years. From the description: “The prize focuses on the attributes of excellent writing, including clarity, grace, and accessibility; the quality of …
A special edition of the journal “Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis”, No 1 of volume 61, 2023, has been published and is dedicated to the memory of our deceased former faculty Ed Fadell and Sufian Husseini. Issue: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/topological-methods-in-nonlinear-analysis/volume-61/issue-1
Our own Melissa Lindsey was part of a panel discussion about preparing to teach the first day of classes. L&S Instructional Design Collaborative puts together podcasts for a variety of instructional topics. The one that contains valuable insights from Melissa can be found here: https://idc.ls.wisc.edu/2023/08/15/podcast-episode-10/
Tonghai Yang has won a Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Kellett awards recognize outstanding faculty seven to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, they provide research funding to the winners at a critical stage of their careers.
The Math Department’s newly formed Dynamics Group has been awarded a National Science Foundation Research Training Group grant that will bring the university $2.48M over 5 years. The grant will be run by PI Autumn Kent; co-PIs Tullia Dymarz, Caglar Uyanik, Chenxi Wu, and Andrew Zimmer; and senior personnel Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, and Grace …
Daniel Erman has won a Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. The award is meant to recognize research and teaching excellence in faculty who are at mid-career. The mid-career designation generally means faculty 10 to 20 years into a career.