University of Wisconsin - Madison
We are pleased to congratulate Mihaela Ifrim, Timo Seppäläinen and Botong Wang for being awarded 2023 Simons Fellowships. 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 significant advances. Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees
Mihaela Ifrim has been awarded a Visiting Miller Professorship at the Miller Institute, housed at UC-Berkeley. The purpose of the Visiting Miller Professorship is to bring promising or eminent scientists to the Berkeley campus on a short-term basis for collaborative research interactions within the Institute’s interdisciplinary community. Link: https://miller.berkeley.edu/visiting-professorship
Betsy Stovall and Jin-Yi Cai have been named as 2023 AMS Fellows. This program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Jin-Yi Cai has been named “For contributions to computational complexity theory, especially in the areas of complexity dichotomy.” Betsy Stovall has been named “For …
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 …
Melanie Matchett Wood, who was a faculty member here from 2011-2019, has won a Macarthur Fellowship. These awards are unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Melanie is now at Harvard University. Link: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2022/melanie-matchett-wood Link: https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/
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 …
Backyard wars have been launched over the question of the optimal number of times to flip hamburgers, steaks or zucchini on the grill—is once sufficient? Does ten flips result in a better, more quickly cooked burger? It’s a question that also fascinated Professor of Mathematics Jean-Luc Thiffeault, who was inspired to develop a simple mathematical …
Professor Christopher Rycroft worked with the Extavour Laboratory to study the early stages of development in cricket embryos. In humans, an embryo starts from a single cell that undergoes repeated divisions. But in crickets and many other insect species, the cell nuclei initially move and divide within a shared cytoplasm, with cell boundaries only forming later. Using …
Andrei Caldararu has received an FRG (Focused Research Group) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), joint with Benjamin Antieau (Northwestern), Max Lieblich (University of Washington), Akhil Mathew (University of Chicago) and Martin Olsson (Berkeley). The grant, worth 1.5 Million, will be used jointly to fund research, conferences, postdocs and graduate students in the area …