University of Wisconsin - Madison
June Huh (Princeton University) will deliver this year’s Distinguished Lecture Series, titled “A decomposition theorem for Lefschetz modules.” Dates and Times: Part I. Wednesday, November 4, 4-5 pm in Van Vleck B239 Part II. Thursday, November 5, 4-5 pm in Van Vleck B239 (room changed) Part III. Friday, November 6, 2:30-3:30 pm in Van Vleck …
During her time at UW–Madison, Isabella Levinthal ’26 majored in Math and participated in the Madison Experimental Mathematics Lab. After that, she originally thought she might pursue a PhD in Math. Her academic journey took her to Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, but she still found math to be useful. …
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics, one of the two main scientific societies for probability theory, has established an award in memory of our former emeritus professor Tom Kurtz, who passed away on April 19, 2025. The biennial award recognizes contributions to the theory and application of stochastic networks. Read more here:
Jordan Ellenberg has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, chartered in 1780, was established to recognize accomplished individuals and engage them in addressing the greatest challenges facing the young republic. The first members elected to the Academy include George Washington, who said – in his first …
John Cobb, who is advised by Michael Kemeny and Daniel Erman, has been awarded an NSF postdoc! Congratulations! https://johndcobb.github.io
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 …