University of Wisconsin - Madison
Melanie Matchett Wood has been named the Minerva Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University. She will be in residence at Princeton during the Fall semester of 2018. It is a great honor to be chosen for this residency. Congratulations, Melanie!
Math faculty Sebastien Roch and former Ph.D. student Kun-Chieh (Jason) Wang won Best Paper Award at the prestigious 22nd Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2018. Their submission “Circular Networks from Distorted Metrics’’ combines ideas from mathematical biology, combinatorial algorithms and theoretical statistics to make progress on the notoriously challenging problem …
Congratulations to Lu Wang on her award of the Vilas Faculty Early Investigator Award. The award is meant to recognize research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers.
Congratulations to Sebastien Roch, Dima Arinkin and Jordan Ellenberg in being named Simon Fellows. The Simons Fellows programs in both Mathematics and Theoretical Physics provide funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations.
Assistant Professor Qin Li has been awarded an NSF Career Grant. Her application on Applicable Kinetic Computation with Boundaries and Rough Media will start in September 1, 2018. Congratulations, Qin!
Melanie Matchett Wood has been named as one of the Top 50 Women in STEM, as published by TheBestSchools.org. https://thebestschools.org/features/50-top-women-in-stem/ Congratulations, Melanie!
Appearing on the PBS program “Nova,” UW–Madison professor and math expert Jordan Ellenberg explained how understanding simple facts about probability can help people in their everyday lives. “Prediction by the Numbers” aired Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.
Autumn Kent was appointed a Vilas Associate through the university’s prestigious Vilas Associates competition. The Vilas Associate appointment is awarded to a faculty with new, ongoing, significant and high-quality research. The Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses the competitive recipients based on a detailed proposal. The …
Samuel Stechmann was appointed a Vilas Associate through the university’s prestigious Vilas Associates competition. The Vilas Associate appointment is awarded to a faculty with new, ongoing, significant and high-quality research. The Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses the competitive recipients based on a detailed proposal. The appointment …
Professor Emeritus Ed Fadell passed away on Jan. 11 at age 91 (almost 92). After graduating from OSU with a PhD degree, he went to Harvard as an assistant professor for three years before coming to Madison in 1955. He stayed at Madison both a distiguished researcher in Algebraic Topology and award winning teacher until …