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Math News and Events
Events
- September
- September 3
- September 4Statistics Seminar Mixture of Directed Graphical Models for Discrete Spatial Random Fields by Kate Calder1:00 PM, 7560 Morgridge Hall
- September 4
- September 8Group Actions and Dynamics SeminarBrandis Whitfield (UW) - Constructing reducibly geometrically finite subgroups of the mapping class group2:25 PM, B123 Van Vleck Hall
- September 8
- September 8
News
Caglar Uyanik awarded NSF-CAREER award
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 …
July 8, 2025Stovall, Denisov and Ellenberg selected as 2025 Simons Fellows
Congratulations are in order for Betsy Stovall, Sergey Denisov, and Jordan Ellenberg for being selected as 2025 Simons Fellows: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees Congratulations to all three!
May 5, 2025
Hao Shen wins Rollo Davidson Prize
I’m happy to report that Hao 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 …
May 1, 2025
In Memoriam: Tom Kurtz
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 …
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