Marissa Loving published article in Feb. AMS Notices.
Our own Marissa Loving has an article in February’s Notices! Especially of interest to those at the beginning of their careers. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202402/noti2877/noti2877.html
Our own Marissa Loving has an article in February’s Notices! Especially of interest to those at the beginning of their careers. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202402/noti2877/noti2877.html
Jordan Ellenberg was recently published in an article in Nature. He collaborated with a group of researchers working with Google Deepmind to train artificial intelligence (AI) to better evaluate responses. This is intended to better train AI to consider how to answer the question and offer fact based responses instead of “hallucinating” data. The work …
Our recently-graduated PhD student Parvathi Kooloth has won one of the two AWM Dissertation Prizes, which will be presented at the JMM. Parvathi did her PhD under Leslie Smith’s supervision. Congratulations, Parvathi! *** The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2024 AWM Dissertation Prizes will be presented to Abigail Hickok …
Yue Sun, a student of Chris Rycroft, won the top prize in the “Gallery of Fluid Motion” competition at this year’s annual Americal Physical Society Fluids Meeting! She did her beautiful experiments in Saverio Spagnolie’s AMEP lab in Sterling Hall. The video is lovely and worth watching even if you’re not well-versed in fluids or math!(Link: …
Jordan Ellenberg is expanding the impact of his service to the UW by hosting a first-year student course on writing and data. First-year Interest Groups (FIGs) are usually groups of 3 classes that are open to only incoming freshmen and are part of a theme. These students take these courses together as a cohort and …
The Excellence in Research Graduate Student Awards go to Shi Chen Yuxi Han Phillip Harris Yunfan He Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott Jiwoong Jang Ruofan Jiang Daniel Levitin Yandi Wu Jiaming Xu The John Nohel Prize in Applied Mathematics Awards go to Aidan Howells Wilson Lough and Henry Schaerf Mathematics Graduate Awards go to Jacob Denson Jacob Fiedler Diego Rojas La Luz …
Autumn Kent has been named a 2024 fellow of the American Mathematical Society. The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Press Release: AMS NAMES 2024 CLASS OF FELLOWS Forty mathematical scientists from around the world have been …
Nan has just received Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research — congratulations, Nan! Link: https://www.nre.navy.mil/2024-young-investigators
Patrick Ahern died on September 26, 2023. He was an emeritus professor of our department, serving as a faculty member from 1966-2006. Pat was born in Albert Lea Minnesota in 1936, to Garrett Patrick and Marion Dorothy (Doran) Ahern. He graduated from Albert Lea high school, where his father was a math teacher and football …
Quanta Magazine recently published an article on the many conjectures resting on the Kaketa conjecture. Betsy Stovall commented in the article. Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-tower-of-conjectures-that-rests-upon-a-needle-20230912/