Two of our TAs have won Campus TA awards. Karan Srivastava has won an Exceptional Service Award, and Boyana Martinova has won an Early Excellence Award. Both will be recognized by an awards ceremony on March 21, 2023. Congratulations! Link: https://grad.wisc.edu/2023/03/14/2022-23-teaching-assistant-award-winners-demonstrate-educational-excellence/
Catalysts for Science Policy collaborated with local Madison brewery, Delta Beer Lab, to feature art inspired by active research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on their 2021 spring New England IPA label. Math graduate student John Cobb and artist Abra Schlub collaborated to create the winning label, melding art and algebraic geometry. Their submission notes, …
Jenny Yeon, TA in the Math Department, has won a Continuity of Instruction Award for her efforts to support instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jenny served as a Head TA in Math 221 in Spring 2020, successfully crafting an online strategy for the tough change to all online instruction. She served as a Technical TA …
Here’s a link to a departmental video made for our Virtual Visitors day (3/23/2021) for potential graduate students. https://mediaspace.wisc.edu/media/Math+Department+Video/1_ezay0pkb
Lorenzo Najt studies algorithms that can build a large group of maps for a state, predict their outcomes, then compare those to the map that legislators selected. He works with UW–Madison mathematics professor Jordan Ellenberg as well as associate professor Justin Solomon and postdoctoral associate Daryl DeFord at MIT. “What if we had a big bag …
Congratulations Polly Yu, our distinguished graduate student, for being selected to be a teaching fellow of L&S! Congratulations to Geoff Bentsen for being a runner-up to this award! Fellowship in the Teaching Academy is an honor bestowed on individuals who have demonstrated teaching excellence, are recognized and nominated by their peers, and are committed to …
A supportive environment helped a group of female graduate students in mathematics reach lofty goals. Already a leader in the number of women hired as faculty members, the department hopes to continue improving the experience for female students to help bring equity to the field. After graduation, a group of seven female graduate students, Eva …
Jason Turner, a doctoral candidate in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF).Turner, from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is in Samuel Stechmann’s group. Only around 6 percent of applicants were chosen for the fellowship in 2019. The DOE CSGF, administered by the Krell Institute of …
Juliette Bruce has won a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award for Exceptional Service. She is a fourth-year PhD student in Mathematics and has taught classes in algebra, statistics and probability, and calculus. Additionally, she has held a non-standard teaching assistant position with the Madison Math Circle, an outreach program sponsored by the math department, since spring …