University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jordan Ellenberg joins a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, another bestselling author and a leader in global sustainable agriculture are among six newly elected Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large at Cornell. The professors-at-large program at Cornell sponsors up to 20 outstanding scholars and public intellectuals at one time, in the life sciences, physical sciences, humanities, social sciences and …
A supportive environment helped a group of female graduate students in mathematics reach lofty goals. Already a leader in the number of women hired as faculty members, the department hopes to continue improving the experience for female students to help bring equity to the field. After graduation, a group of seven female graduate students, Eva …
Every four years the UW–Madison Mathematics Department awards Van Vleck Prizes to faculty members on the basis of excellence in research and promise of significant future achievement. The prizes are funded by the Van Vleck Professorship Fund. The four winners of the 2019 Van Vleck Prizes are…
Soledad Benguria-Andrews and Sara Nagreen were honored for career achievement and excellence by the College of Letters and Science on May 8, 2019. Soledad won a 2019 Early Career award for her work with redefining the Calculus sequence; this impacts thousands of students each year! Sara won a Mid-Career Award for her impact on service, …
Assistant Professor Qin Li has been awarded an Vilas Early Investigator Award. The award is meant to recognize research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers. These awards not only provide very generous research funding to those who receive them, but they are among the most prestigious awards granted by the university. …
Two Assistant Professors in the Math department, Mihaela Ifrim and Hung Tran, have won National Science Foundation Early Career Awards. A hallmark achievement for young researchers, the CAREER award is described by the NSF as “a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the …
Jason Turner, a doctoral candidate in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). Turner, from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is in Samuel Stechmann’s group. Only around 6 percent of applicants were chosen for the fellowship in 2019. The DOE CSGF, administered by the Krell Institute …
The UW–Madison Department of Mathematics participated in the national annual Putnam Exam this fall. Sivakorn Sanguanmoo received an honorable mention, which is a very high honor on this competitive test. There was a team of 3 students from the UW that scored in the top 200, containing Chenghui Li, Liwei Jiang, and Sivakorn Sanguanmoo. Another team, …
Congratulations to Sebastien Roch for being named as a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. We are proud to see Sebastien being recognized for his excellent research.
Three professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are among the 2019 class of Simons Fellows in Mathematics. Gheorghe Craciun, Autumn Kent and Andreas Seeger are among the 48 distinguished scientists named to fellowships. Each year, the Simons Foundation selects as many as 50 fellows conducting research in math and the physical sciences, providing funding for …