University of Wisconsin - Madison
Two of our TAs have won Campus TA awards. Karan Srivastava has won an Exceptional Service Award, and Boyana Martinova has won an Early Excellence Award. Both will be recognized by an awards ceremony on March 21, 2023. Congratulations! Link: https://grad.wisc.edu/2023/03/14/2022-23-teaching-assistant-award-winners-demonstrate-educational-excellence/
The UW did well again in the 83rd Putnam math competition. Our team ranked 14th nationwide (plus Canada). Our student Haran Mouli ranked 25-100, Jonah Guse ranked 101-210. Additionally, Kyle Boone, Yangkun Dai, Tianlong Huang, Yuval Lerman and Yufei Zhan made to the top 500. Link to MAA announcement: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Putnam/2022/AnnouncementOfWinnersFall2022.docx.pdf
Professor Saverio Spagnolie has been named a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on the basis of a detailed proposal. Congratulations Saverio! Link: …
Former Van Vleck Assistant Professor Donghyun Lee (2015-2018) is appointed as a named distinguished professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), a private research university in Pohang, South Korea.
Jose Rodriguez has won a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award. Each year, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members (or instructional academic staff) who have had a special impact as instructors of Honors courses, as supervisors of Honors theses, or as teachers and mentors of Honors studen ts. The Faculty Honors Committee reviews …
We are pleased to congratulate Mihaela Ifrim, Timo Seppäläinen and Botong Wang for being awarded 2023 Simons Fellowships. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances. Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees
Mihaela Ifrim has been awarded a Visiting Miller Professorship at the Miller Institute, housed at UC-Berkeley. The purpose of the Visiting Miller Professorship is to bring promising or eminent scientists to the Berkeley campus on a short-term basis for collaborative research interactions within the Institute’s interdisciplinary community. Link: https://miller.berkeley.edu/visiting-professorship
Betsy Stovall and Jin-Yi Cai have been named as 2023 AMS Fellows. This program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Jin-Yi Cai has been named “For contributions to computational complexity theory, especially in the areas of complexity dichotomy.” Betsy Stovall has been named “For …
Seymour Parter died on October 21, 2022. He got his Ph.D. from Courant Institute in 1957 after spending several years working on early computers at Los Alamos. He had a joint appointment in both the mathematics and computer science departments from 1963 to 1996. He continued to be involved in the department’s probability seminar and …