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Professor Shamgar Gurevich, with Roger Howe (Yale) and Sophie Kriz (Princeton) organized an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton) workshop devoted to the discovery of the notion of size of symmetry. Lecture 1: Special Joint IAS/PU Group Theory AfternoonA Look at Representations of SL(2,q)Via the Lens of Size: Motivations, Rank, Eta CorrespondenceSpeaker: Shamgar Gurevich (UW)November …
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
Maurice Fabien was awarded the MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship. These awards are given to accomplished early career professionals who were chosen based on their achievements; active support of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their communities; and dedication to industrial and applied mathematics, computational science, and data science. Link: Here is the newsletter from SIAM introducing …
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 …
Quanta Magazine recently published an article on the many conjectures resting on the Kaketa conjecture. Betsy Stovall commented in the article. Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-tower-of-conjectures-that-rests-upon-a-needle-20230912/
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!
New research from an NYU/Abu Dhabi team has found that temperatures in the Atlantic are having a growing effect on the Indian monsoon, something that could prove crucial in predicting how severe rains are likely to be. The study comes as climate change alters the patterns of monsoon rainfall in India, with likely far-reaching effects …