Jordan Ellenberg will speak at a Focus on the Humanities lecture on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 5:00pm. The lecture will be held in the Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Ave., Madison, WI. Mathematics is often thought of as a source of certain knowledge, the domain in which we know precisely what things are …
It is a great pleasure to announce that one of our graduate students earned a Campus-Wide TA Award by the Campus-Wide TA Award Committee for the 2025-2026 academic year. Boyana Martinova was chosen for a Capstone Teaching Award, which recognizes TAs at the end of their graduate program with an outstanding teaching record over the course of their …
The MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics provides students with a rigorous, modern training in applied and computational mathematics and in the mathematics of data. The program is targeted to students with an undergraduate degree in mathematics or other quantitative disciplines such as computer science, statistics, economics and engineering. Through foundational and advanced coursework, students …
Congratulations to Alexei Poltoratski, Dima Arinkin, and Andreas Seeger for being recipients of the 2026 Simons Fellowship! Once again this is a very impressive haul for our department; about 50 are awarded across all math departments in the US and Canada each year. Our department has received 23 of these since 2012. Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees
Congrats to Dallas Albritton and Paul Apisa! They were selected as 2 of the 21 Sloan fellows in Mathematics for the US and Canada for 2026. The award recognizes scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. …
Qin Li was named as one of 24 faculty members to receive a Vilas Associate Award. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible. 2026-27 Vilas Associates Competition awardees announced | Research | UW–Madison
Nan Chen recently received one of the new “Reimagining Next Phase Research” awards. Growing from a need to diversify our research funding sources, the UW Foundation developed this new award to help smooth over interruptions from federal sources to help researchers continue to innovate. Congratulations, Nan! Link: https://research.wisc.edu/reimagining-next-phase-research-initiative/
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 …
The Madison Experimental Math (MXM) program was featured as part of an article published to the UW Foundation’s website on the Badger experience and how donations help fund extraordinary programs for students. MXM was founded in 2021. Since it’s inception, 297 students have participated, gaining experience with hands-on investigative experiences, working in a team, and …
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 …