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Aaron Naber, Professor of Mathematics from the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, is set to give a distinguished lecture and a seminar the week of October 20-24, 2025. The lecture will be on October 22, 2025, at 4pm in B239 Van Vleck Hall. The title is Structure of Singular Sets: Nonlinear Harmonic Maps and the …
Betsy Stovall, University of Wisconsin Professor of Mathematics, Letters and Science Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor, and AMS Associate Secretary for the Central Section, who is being recognized for spearheading the local organizing efforts to create a spectacular 2025 AWM Research Symposium in Madison. The AWM Service Award, established by the AWM Executive Committee in November …
Caglar Uyanik was awarded an NSF-CAREER award, entitled “Group actions, rigidity, and dynamics in low dimensions.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education …
Congratulations are in order for Betsy Stovall, Sergey Denisov, and Jordan Ellenberg for being selected as 2025 Simons Fellows: Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees Congratulations to all three!
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 …