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News
Stovall, Guo weigh in on Kakeya conjecture interconnectedness in Quanta
Quanta Magazine recently published an article on the many conjectures resting on the Kaketa conjecture. Both Shaoming Guo and Betsy Stovall commented in the article. Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-tower-of-conjectures-that-rests-upon-a-needle-20230912/
September 18, 2023
Spagnolie’s research on dancing raisins leads to new ideas about bubbles and floating objects in them
Saverio Spagnolie recently published an Arxiv paper on what started as a simple exploration of the behavior of raisins in carbonated water, something he noticed during a kitchen experiment with his daughter. As he proceeded to examine …
September 15, 2023
New AMS Award in Mathematical Writing Named for Martin Isaacs
A new AMS Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing is named after our esteemed Emeritus colleague Martin Isaacs. The prize is for a paper published in a primary AMS journal in the previous two years. …
September 13, 2023Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis dedicated to Husseini, Fadell
A special edition of the journal “Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis”, No 1 of volume 61, 2023, has been published and is dedicated to the memory of our deceased former faculty Ed Fadell and Sufian …
September 12, 2023Undergraduates sought to participate in Madison Experimental Math (MXM) Lab
Are you interested in exploring research level mathematics? Are you curious about open questions in various active research fields? Or maybe you want to apply your programming knowledge to answer interesting mathematical questions? If you’ve …
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