Category: Awards

Sébastien Roch wins Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Award

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 …

Parvarthi Kooloth awarded AWM dissertation prize

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 wins top prize in Gallery of Fluid Motion in APS Fluids meeting

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! …

Math Department Graduate Student Awards Announced

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 named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

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 …

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

New AMS Award in Mathematical Writing Named for Martin Isaacs

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 …

Tonghai Yang awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award

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.   

Daniel Erman wins Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award

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.  

Former Van Vleck Professor wins a major grant in Korea

Our former Van Vleck postdoc Donghyun Lee (currently, an associate professor in Postech) won a Hanwoomul Phagi Basic Research grant from the Korean Ministry of Science (the total amount of his award is about two million USD over 10 years). Dr. Lee is the only winner in math, among 15 awardees in the areas of …