Caglar Uyanik was awarded an NSF-CAREER award, entitled “Group actions, rigidity, and dynamics in low dimensions.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education …
Congratulations are in order for Betsy Stovall, Sergey Denisov, and Jordan Ellenberg for being selected as 2025 Simons Fellows: Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees Congratulations to all three!
Hao Shen has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for his deep contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and the furthering of our understanding of the stochastic Yang-Mills dynamics. This prize is awarded annually to young probabilists. The announcement is here: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-prize The list of the past recipients is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Davidson_Prize Note that the last time …
Steve Wright, a Math affiliate and Chair of the Computer Sciences Department, will give a plenary talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia in July 2026. Steve works in the area of optimization and data science. Congratulations, Steve! Link: https://wrightstephen.github.io/sw_proj/
Our new colleague Rajula Srivastava (coming this Fall) has won one of the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes! Rajula is also a graduate of our department, having received her PhD in 2022 with Andreas Seeger. https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3981 https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/rajula-srivastava-receives-the-maryam-mirzakhani-new-frontiers-prize Congratulations, Rajula!
Mihaela Ifrim and Hao Shen received the prestigious Vilas Associates award. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Research Committees on the basis of a detailed proposal. Congratulations, Mihaela and Hao! Link: https://research.wisc.edu/professorships-and-faculty-fellowships/vilas-associates/
Maurice Fabien was awarded the MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship. These awards are given to accomplished early career professionals who were chosen based on their achievements; active support of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their communities; and dedication to industrial and applied mathematics, computational science, and data science. Link: Here is the newsletter from SIAM introducing …
Through her work with the NSF, Mihaela Ifrim has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers. The award recognizes innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, expands …
Associate Professor Botong Wang was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2024-2025 academic year. This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more …
On July 18 at the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) math camp, Jordan Ellenberg gave the 2024 Arnold Ross lecture. The audience was talented teens and their undergraduate counselors. The Arnold Ross lecture was named after Arnold Ross for his many contributions to the development of mathematical talent, including outreach programs at Ohio …