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 …
The Madison Experimental Math (MXM) program was featured as part of an article published to the UW Foundation’s website on the Badger experience and how donations help fund extraordinary programs for students. MXM was founded in 2021. Since it’s inception, 297 students have participated, gaining experience with hands-on investigative experiences, working in a team, and …
Through her work with the NSF, Mihaela Ifrim has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, expands …
Quanta recently featured an article on the settlement of the Langlands conjecture, and our own Dima Arinkin was one of the people involved in the proof. This problem, first presented by Robert Langlands, a professor at Princeton, in 1967. The Langlands conjecture holds sway in three separate areas of mathematics: number theory, geometry and something …
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 …
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
Betsy Stovall and Jin-Yi Cai have been named as 2023 AMS Fellows. This program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Jin-Yi Cai has been named “For contributions to computational complexity theory, especially in the areas of complexity dichotomy.” Betsy Stovall has been named “For …
Jordan Ellenberg and Grant Sanderson will receive the 2023 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award during a prize reception at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at 4:25 p.m. Jordan Ellenberg receives the 2023 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award for his clear and entertaining prose …
Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind it go to two others — died on Aug. 3 at his home in Woodbury, N.Y. He was 86. Since …