University of Wisconsin - Madison
The team of Jose Israel Rodriguez (PI), Jordan Ellenberg, Sebastien Roch, and Qin Li (all co-PIs) has just been awarded an NSF RTG grant, “Mathematics & AI Synergies (MAIS): Algebra and Applications.” Other members of the team are Amy Cochran, Hanbaek Lyu, Laurentiu Maxim, Chris Rycroft, and Botong Wang. The RTG Mathematics & AI Synergies (MAIS): …
Jordan Ellenberg was featured in the Spring 2026 issue of the College of Letters & Science biannual magazine.
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!
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!
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 …
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