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Tonghai Yang together with a team of four other mathematicians have won the fourth Alexanderson Award for their paper “Modularity of generating series of divisors on unitary Shimura varieties” (Asterisque 421 (2020), pages 7-125). You can glimpse the beginning of the paper here: https://smf.emath.fr/sites/default/files/2020-11/smf_ast_7-125__sample.pdf The Alexanderson Award recognizes the best paper from an AIM workshop …
Congratulations to Hung Tran for winning a Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award! Through the generosity of the Vilas Trust, the Vilas Faculty Early & Mid-Career Investigator Awards recognize research and teaching excellence in early and mid-career faculty. These awards come from the Provost, based on nominations first by the department and then by the Dean. …
Daniel Erman has won the Alliant Energy James R. Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award, which is a UW system level award given to only 4 instructors system wide. Congratulations Daniel!
Sebastien Roch has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). IMS is the main scientific society for probability and the mathematical end of statistics. Among its various activities, IMS publishes the Annals series of flagship journals of probability. Link: https://imstat.org/2022/04/22/2022-ims-fellows-announced/
In this Washington Post op-ed, Jordan Ellenberg discusses the alleged methods which Columbia used to game the U.S.News and World Report’s #2 College Ranking. He notes “To the extent that universities chase rankings — whether through policy changes or sketchy numbers — they are declaring their real priorities. They are making clear that the imaginary …
We are pleased to congratulate David Anderson, Chanwoo Kim and Jin-Yi Cai (CS/Math Affiliate) for being awarded Simons Fellowships. They are 3 of 38 announced 2022 Fellows. 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 …
Congratulations to Tatyana Shcherbyna and Andrew Zimmer for both being named 2022 Sloan Fellows. They are 2 of 118 early-career scholars that represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent …
Mariya Soskova was one of 26 faculty winners of the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible. Link: https://news.wisc.edu/2022-23-vilas-associates-competition-awardees-announced/ Congratulations to Mariya!
Jose Rodriguez is co organizing a semester program titled Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World: New Methods for New Challenges at the new NSF institute IMSI in Chicago Fall 2023. The institute only holds two programs per year, and there are only 7 such institutes in the country. It is an incredible honor for Jose …
A team of mathematicians (that included our own Ananth Shankar) has solved an important question about how solutions to polynomial equations relate to sophisticated geometric objects called Shimura varieties. The work was reported in Quanta Magazine about the team’s participation on solving the Andre-Oort conjecture. Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-30-year-old-andre-oort-conjecture-20220203/ Congrats, Ananth!