University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Postdoc

Jordan Ellenberg featured in L&S Magazine

Jordan Ellenberg was featured in the Spring 2026 issue of the College of Letters & Science biannual magazine.

Brandis Whitfield awarded NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Brandis Whitfield was awarded an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Whitfield is an RTG Postdoctoral Trainee in the Geometry, Group Actions and Dynamics research group.  She works with Marissa Loving and Autumn Kent in the areas of geometric group theory and low-dimensional geometric topologies with general interests in mapping class groups (big and …

Sarah Strikwerda honored with 2026 Postdoc Excellence Award in Teaching

Sarah Strikwerda was awarded the Postdoc Excellence Award for Teaching.

Best Paper Winners Honored at ICCM

Two weeks ago, some of our UW Math alumni, postdocs, and faculty had their work honored at the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Shanghai, China. Qiao He (former postdoc and VISP student), Chao Li, Yousheng Shi (former postdoc), and Tonghai Yang (professor) won the Best Paper Gold Award in Number Theory for their paper …

Joshua Mundinger awarded NSF postdoctoral fellowship

Joshua Mundinger, one of our Van Vleck postdocs, was awarded a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. For more information about NSF postdoc fellowships: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/postdocs

Former Van Vleck receives distinguished professorship from POSTECH

Former Van Vleck Assistant Professor Donghyun Lee (2015-2018) is appointed as a named distinguished professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), a private research university in Pohang, South Korea.

Former Van Vleck Professor Awarded Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research

Amanda L. Folsom, a Van Vleck at the UW from 2007-2010, will receive the 2021 Mary P. Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Folsom is a Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College. She was awarded the prize for her outstanding record of research in analytic and algebraic number theory, …

Former Van Vleck Professor Chosen to Head Banff Research Station

Former Van Vleck Assistant Professor Malabika Pramanik has been appointed as Director of the Banff International Research Station as of July 1, 2020. She was in Madison between 2001 and 2004.  She joined the University of British Columbia in 2006.  A mathematical analyst, her research interests cover Euclidean harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, partial differential …

Shusterman jointly publishes proof of twin primes problem

Two mathematicians, Will Sawin of Columbia University and Mark Shusterman of University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently posted a proof of a version of one of the most famous open problems in mathematics. The result opens a new front in the study of the twin primes conjecture, which has bedeviled mathematicians for more than a century and has implications …