University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jean-Luc Thiffeault was named as an 2022 Fellow by the American Physical Society. He is cited “for innovative contributions to the understanding of mixing and transport in dynamical systems, including the development of topological methods, and the understanding of enhanced diffusion by swimming micro-organisms.” He is one of four recipients on the UW campus. The …
Melanie Matchett Wood, who was a faculty member here from 2011-2019, has won a Macarthur Fellowship. These awards are unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Melanie is now at Harvard University. Link: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2022/melanie-matchett-wood Link: https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the inaugural recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication, given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Futures. Supported by Schmidt Futures, these prestigious awards recognize science journalists and research scientists who have developed …
On September 9th, the VISP-MA Program at the Department of Mathematics hosted an event celebrating the beginning of Fall 22 semester and the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese celebration. Taking place on the top floor of Van Fleck hall, new and current students as well as alumni of the mathematics VISP and masters programs were …
In June 2022, there was a conference on orthogonal polynomials and special functions, dedicated to Dick Askey, held (remotely) at CRM in Montreal. There was a day’s program with talks from former students and colleagues about the role of Dick in their work. Two of Dick’s students, Dennis Stanton, Charles Dunkl and Shaun Cooper gave …
Jordan Ellenberg and Grant Sanderson will receive the 2023 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award during a prize reception at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at 4:25 p.m. Jordan Ellenberg receives the 2023 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award for his clear and entertaining prose …
Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind it go to two others — died on Aug. 3 at his home in Woodbury, N.Y. He was 86. Since …
Backyard wars have been launched over the question of the optimal number of times to flip hamburgers, steaks or zucchini on the grill—is once sufficient? Does ten flips result in a better, more quickly cooked burger? It’s a question that also fascinated Professor of Mathematics Jean-Luc Thiffeault, who was inspired to develop a simple mathematical …
Mark Shusterman, Van Vleck Professor from 2018-2020, has won the prestigious Levitzki Prize. The prize is awarded every two years to a young Israeli mathematician for research in Algebra or related areas. The Levitzki prize committee decided to award the 2022 prize to Mark Shusterman in light of his many contributions to group theory and …
Professor Christopher Rycroft worked with the Extavour Laboratory to study the early stages of development in cricket embryos. In humans, an embryo starts from a single cell that undergoes repeated divisions. But in crickets and many other insect species, the cell nuclei initially move and divide within a shared cytoplasm, with cell boundaries only forming later. Using …