Thomas G. Kurtz passed away on Saturday, April 19, 2025. He will be deeply missed by the probability and statistics community and all who knew him. Tom was born on July 14, 1941, in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from La Plata High School in La Plata, Missouri, in 1959. He earned his B.A. degree …
Jacob (Jaap) Korevaar has died, aged 102, in the Netherlands. He was a faculty member in our department from 1953 to 1964. He served as Chairman of the Program in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics from 1956–61 and Associate (and/or Acting) Chairman, Dept of Mathematics, 1962–64. He had 17 Ph.D. students. Korevaar’s research broadly fell …
Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison On the Death of Professor Emeritus I. Martin Isaacs On Monday, February 17, 2025, the UW math department lost an outstanding researcher and an award-winning teacher. Professor Emeritus I. Martin Isaacs succumbed to kidney failure. He was 84 years old and had been living in …
It is with great sadness that we post that Nigel Boston has died. He worked for the Math Department from 2002 to 2019. A Kudosboard on the occasion of his retirement in 2019 is filled with messages testifying to his impact on the university and its students: https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/8qSR33hA?rid=774ac253#view Link: AMS In Memoriam
Established researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students in all related fields and industry are invited to the special workshop “Advances in Lie Theory, Representation Theory, and Combinatorics” at SLMath (MSRI) in Berkeley, California and online. This workshop will have a view to the future of a broad spectrum of topics including: This meeting will feature …
Patrick Ahern died on September 26, 2023. He was an emeritus professor of our department, serving as a faculty member from 1966-2006. Pat was born in Albert Lea Minnesota in 1936, to Garrett Patrick and Marion Dorothy (Doran) Ahern. He graduated from Albert Lea high school, where his father was a math teacher and football …
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 …
A special edition of the journal “Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis”, No 1 of volume 61, 2023, has been published and is dedicated to the memory of our deceased former faculty Ed Fadell and Sufian Husseini. Issue: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/topological-methods-in-nonlinear-analysis/volume-61/issue-1
Seymour Parter died on October 21, 2022. He got his Ph.D. from Courant Institute in 1957 after spending several years working on early computers at Los Alamos. He had a joint appointment in both the mathematics and computer science departments from 1963 to 1996. He continued to be involved in the department’s probability seminar and …
In June 2022, there was a conference on orthogonal polynomials and special functions, dedicated to Dick Askey, held (remotely) at CRM in Montreal. There was a day’s program with talks from former students and colleagues about the role of Dick in their work. Two of Dick’s students, Dennis Stanton, Charles Dunkl and Shaun Cooper gave …