University of Wisconsin - Madison
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 Afternoon A Look at Representations of SL(2,q) Via the Lens of Size: Motivations, Rank, Eta Correspondence Speaker: …
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/