The fourth iteration of the Geometry Labs United conference will be held in Madison, WI from June 1-4. In addition to three plenary talks, it features short talks and posters by undergraduate students who did research in one of the GLU labs (like MXM!), and it has a day of outreach aimed broader public! 4 …
Ren Watson, currently an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as well as a CGRS Graduate Fellowship from UW-Madison. Ren is broadly interested in algebra, number theory, and combinatorics, with her past research focusing on additive number theory, arithmetic combinatorics, and algebraic geometry. At …
It is a great pleasure to announce that one of our graduate students earned a Campus-Wide TA Award by the Campus-Wide TA Award Committee for the 2025-2026 academic year. Boyana Martinova was chosen for a Capstone Teaching Award, which recognizes TAs at the end of their graduate program with an outstanding teaching record over the course of their …
The MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics provides students with a rigorous, modern training in applied and computational mathematics and in the mathematics of data. The program is targeted to students with an undergraduate degree in mathematics or other quantitative disciplines such as computer science, statistics, economics and engineering. Through foundational and advanced coursework, students …
The Madison Experimental Math (MXM) program was featured as part of an article published to the UW Foundation’s website on the Badger experience and how donations help fund extraordinary programs for students. MXM was founded in 2021. Since it’s inception, 297 students have participated, gaining experience with hands-on investigative experiences, working in a team, and …
Timothy Cheek, who is currently studying at the University of Michigan receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s concurrently, has been awarded a prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. Timothy is broadly interested in number theory and algebraic geometry, with his previous research focusing on automorphic forms and point counting on elliptic surfaces. At the University of Wisconsin, Timothy envisions focusing on arithmetic …
Rachel Hanger was chosen for the Early Excellence Award which recognizes outstanding performance by TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience. Peiyi “Penny” Chen was chosen as one of the three recipients for the Chinese Graduate Student Support Award, which is granted in recognition of PhD students making progress toward their degrees while at the same …
Our PhD student Charlotte Moser has received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geophysical Union: https://go.wisc.edu/agpuospa for her presentation at the Fall 2024 meeting, which had about 25,000 attendees! Congratulations, Charlotte!
Jordan Ellenberg was recently published in an article in Nature. He collaborated with a group of researchers working with Google Deepmind to train artificial intelligence (AI) to better evaluate responses. This is intended to better train AI to consider how to answer the question and offer fact based responses instead of “hallucinating” data. The work …
Our recently-graduated PhD student Parvathi Kooloth has won one of the two AWM Dissertation Prizes, which will be presented at the JMM. Parvathi did her PhD under Leslie Smith’s supervision. Congratulations, Parvathi! *** The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2024 AWM Dissertation Prizes will be presented to Abigail Hickok …