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Qin Li was named as one of 24 faculty members to receive a Vilas Associate Award. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible. 2026-27 Vilas Associates Competition awardees announced | Research | UW–Madison
Nan Chen recently received one of the new “Reimagining Next Phase Research” awards. Growing from a need to diversify our research funding sources, the UW Foundation developed this new award to help smooth over interruptions from federal sources to help researchers continue to innovate. Congratulations, Nan! Link: https://research.wisc.edu/reimagining-next-phase-research-initiative/
Two weeks ago, some of our UW Math alumni, postdocs, and faculty had their work honored at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Shanghai, China. Qiao He (former postdoc and VISP student), Chao Li, Yousheng Shi (former postdoc), and Tonghai Yang (professor) won the Best Paper Gold Award in Number Theory for their paper …
Betsy Stovall, University of Wisconsin Professor of Mathematics, Letters and Science Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor, and AMS Associate Secretary for the Central Section, who is being recognized for spearheading the local organizing efforts to create a spectacular 2025 AWM Research Symposium in Madison. The AWM Service Award, established by the AWM Executive Committee in November …
Caglar Uyanik was awarded an NSF-CAREER award, entitled “Group actions, rigidity, and dynamics in low dimensions.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education …
Congratulations are in order for Betsy Stovall, Sergey Denisov, and Jordan Ellenberg for being selected as 2025 Simons Fellows: Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees Congratulations to all three!
Hao Shen has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for his deep contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and the furthering of our understanding of the stochastic Yang-Mills dynamics. This prize is awarded annually to young probabilists. The announcement is here: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-prize The list of the past recipients is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Davidson_Prize Note that the last time …
Steve Wright, a Math affiliate and Chair of the Computer Sciences Department, will give a plenary talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia in July 2026. Steve works in the area of optimization and data science. Congratulations, Steve! Link: https://wrightstephen.github.io/sw_proj/
Timothy Cheek, who is currently studying at the University of Michigan receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s concurrently, has been awarded a prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. Timothy is broadly interested in number theory and algebraic geometry, with his previous research focusing on automorphic forms and point counting on elliptic surfaces. At the University of Wisconsin, Timothy envisions focusing on arithmetic …
Our new colleague Rajula Srivastava (coming this Fall) has won one of the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes! Rajula is also a graduate of our department, having received her PhD in 2022 with Andreas Seeger. https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3981 https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/rajula-srivastava-receives-the-maryam-mirzakhani-new-frontiers-prize Congratulations, Rajula!