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Two of the four articles published this month in the Bulletin of the American Mathematics Society have UW connections. Daniel Erman and former faculty, Steven Sam, have an article titled “Cubics in 10 variables vs. cubics in 1000 variables: Uniformity phenomena for bounded degree polynomials”. Jordan Ellenberg has been involved in work related to what …
Hundreds of meters deep in the dark of the ocean, a shark glides toward what seems like a meal. It’s kind of ugly, eel-like and not particularly meaty, but still probably food. So the shark strikes. This is where the interaction of biology and physics gets mysterious — just as the shark finds its dinner …
On October 24, 2018, several math students took the Virginia Tech Math Contest. The Virginia Tech Contest is similar to the Putnam Exam, but perhaps somewhat easier; this year 94 schools from 29 states took part in the 40th contest and there were 792 participants. The maximum possible score was 70. We were thrilled …
Check out the 2018 Top Moments in Time, https://news.wisc.edu/moments-in-time-2018-photographers-choice/ UW Photographers pick their favorite pictures of 2018. John Heim is #16.
Melanie Matchett Wood has been elected to a 3 year term on the American Mathematical Society Council, starting in 2019. The Council formulates and administers the scientific policies of the Society and acts in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees. Congratulations, Melanie!
Congratulations to David Anderson on being awarded as a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. Candidates for the professorships possess unusual qualifications and promise, having been recognized nationally and internationally for the quality of their research. Congratulations, David!
Melanie Matchett Wood is one of a group of four researchers who have recently come out with a model that upends the conventional wisdom in their field. They have used intensive computational data to suggest that for decades, if not longer, prevailing opinion about a fundamental concept has been wrong. The model, which was posted online …
Jiuya Wang (Melanie Wood, Advisor, 2018) has won the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Dissertation Prize. This prize is awarded to three outstanding Ph.D. dissertations presented by female mathematical scientists a year. Jiuya Wang is currently a Postdoc at Duke. Her dissertation title was Malle’s conjecture for compositum of number fields. Congratulations Jiuya!
Congratulations to Tonghai Yang, the newest member of our department to be named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2019. He was named For contributions to the theory of Shimura varieties, L-functions, automorphic forms, and complex multiplication. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the …
Jordan Ellenberg crunched the numbers, and he knows the answer. The author of “How Not to Be Wrong” and UW-Madison Mathematics Professor was featured on NBC Sports to prove who was superior: Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady. Jordan demonstrated how he came to his conclusion that Aaron Rodgers was in fact the better QB. [Link: …