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Jean-Luc Thiffeault was named as an 2022 Fellow by the American Physical Society. He is cited “for innovative contributions to the understanding of mixing and transport in dynamical systems, including the development of topological methods, and the understanding of enhanced diffusion by swimming micro-organisms.” He is one of four recipients on the UW campus. The …
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the inaugural recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication, given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Futures. Supported by Schmidt Futures, these prestigious awards recognize science journalists and research scientists who have developed …
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 …
Mark Shusterman, Van Vleck Professor from 2018-2020, has won the prestigious Levitzki Prize. The prize is awarded every two years to a young Israeli mathematician for research in Algebra or related areas. The Levitzki prize committee decided to award the 2022 prize to Mark Shusterman in light of his many contributions to group theory and …
Tonghai Yang together with a team of four other mathematicians have won the fourth Alexanderson Award for their paper “Modularity of generating series of divisors on unitary Shimura varieties” (Asterisque 421 (2020), pages 7-125). You can glimpse the beginning of the paper here: https://smf.emath.fr/sites/default/files/2020-11/smf_ast_7-125__sample.pdf The Alexanderson Award recognizes the best paper from an AIM workshop …
Congratulations to Hung Tran for winning a Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award! Through the generosity of the Vilas Trust, the Vilas Faculty Early & Mid-Career Investigator Awards recognize research and teaching excellence in early and mid-career faculty. These awards come from the Provost, based on nominations first by the department and then by the Dean. …
Daniel Erman has won the Alliant Energy James R. Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award, which is a UW system level award given to only 4 instructors system wide. Congratulations Daniel!
Sebastien Roch has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). IMS is the main scientific society for probability and the mathematical end of statistics. Among its various activities, IMS publishes the Annals series of flagship journals of probability. Link: https://imstat.org/2022/04/22/2022-ims-fellows-announced/
UW–Madison did very well during the annual MAA Putnam Competition. Our university ranked #25 nationwide, including Canada, out of 427 other institutions. Our student Ivan Hu received honorable mention. Joseph Cai and Nitit Jongsawatsataporn ranked among the top 500. Link to results: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Putnam/2021/AnnouncementOfWinnersFall2021.docx%20%283%29.pdf
We are pleased to congratulate David Anderson, Chanwoo Kim and Jin-Yi Cai (CS/Math Affiliate) for being awarded Simons Fellowships. They are 3 of 38 announced 2022 Fellows. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for …