Hao Shen has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for his deep contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and the furthering of our understanding of the stochastic Yang-Mills dynamics. This prize is awarded annually to young probabilists. The announcement is here: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-prize The list of the past recipients is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Davidson_Prize Note that the last time …
Thomas G. Kurtz passed away on Saturday, April 19, 2025. He will be deeply missed by the probability and statistics community and all who knew him. Tom was born on July 14, 1941, in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from La Plata High School in La Plata, Missouri, in 1959. He earned his B.A. degree …
Steve Wright, a Math affiliate and Chair of the Computer Sciences Department, will give a plenary talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia in July 2026. Steve works in the area of optimization and data science. Congratulations, Steve! Link: https://wrightstephen.github.io/sw_proj/
Timothy Cheek, who is currently studying at the University of Michigan receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s concurrently, has been awarded a prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. Timothy is broadly interested in number theory and algebraic geometry, with his previous research focusing on automorphic forms and point counting on elliptic surfaces. At the University of Wisconsin, Timothy envisions focusing on arithmetic …
Our new colleague Rajula Srivastava (coming this Fall) has won one of the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes! Rajula is also a graduate of our department, having received her PhD in 2022 with Andreas Seeger. https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3981 https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/en/news/rajula-srivastava-receives-the-maryam-mirzakhani-new-frontiers-prize Congratulations, Rajula!
Jacob (Jaap) Korevaar has died, aged 102, in the Netherlands. He was a faculty member in our department from 1953 to 1964. He served as Chairman of the Program in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics from 1956–61 and Associate (and/or Acting) Chairman, Dept of Mathematics, 1962–64. He had 17 Ph.D. students. Korevaar’s research broadly fell …
Rachel Hanger was chosen for the Early Excellence Award which recognizes outstanding performance by TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience. Peiyi “Penny” Chen was chosen as one of the three recipients for the Chinese Graduate Student Support Award, which is granted in recognition of PhD students making progress toward their degrees while at the same …
Our PhD student Charlotte Moser has received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geophysical Union: https://go.wisc.edu/agpuospa for her presentation at the Fall 2024 meeting, which had about 25,000 attendees! Congratulations, Charlotte!
Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison On the Death of Professor Emeritus I. Martin Isaacs On Monday, February 17, 2025, the UW math department lost an outstanding researcher and an award-winning teacher. Professor Emeritus I. Martin Isaacs succumbed to kidney failure. He was 84 years old and had been living in …
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