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!(Link: …
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 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 has just received Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research — congratulations, Nan! Link: https://www.nre.navy.mil/2024-young-investigators
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 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 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.
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 …
José Rodriguez has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship, one of two awarded to UW-Madison faculty. These awards are given to early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. We are tremendously proud of José! …
Two of our TAs have won Campus TA awards. Karan Srivastava has won an Exceptional Service Award, and Boyana Martinova has won an Early Excellence Award. Both will be recognized by an awards ceremony on March 21, 2023. Congratulations! Link: https://grad.wisc.edu/2023/03/14/2022-23-teaching-assistant-award-winners-demonstrate-educational-excellence/