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Math News and Events
Events
- March
- March 17Combinatorics SeminarNicolle Gonzalez (UC Berkeley) - Triangular (q,t)-Schroder polynomials and Khovanov-Rozansky homology2:25 PM, VIRTUAL
- March 17Group Actions and Dynamics SeminarYongquan Zhang (Stony Brook) - Disk patterns, discrete modulus and the uniform bounded diameter conjecture 3:00 PM, B131 Van Vleck Hall
- March 17PDE Geometric Analysis SeminarSarah Strikwerda (UW-Madison) - Controlling Discrete Semilinear Wave Equation Toward Flocks3:30 PM, 901 Van Vleck Hall
- March 17Graduate Logic SeminarYiqing Wang - AEC and Shelah’s Presentation Theorem 3:30 PM, B235 Van Vleck Hall
- March 17
News
Rachel Hanger and Peiyi Chen chosen for Campuswide TA Awards
Rachel Hanger was chosen for the Early Excellence Award which recognizes outstanding performance by TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience. Peiyi “Penny” Chen was chosen as one of the three recipients for the Chinese Graduate …
March 4, 2025Charlotte Moser wins Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Our PhD student Charlotte Moser has received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the American Geophysical Union: https://go.wisc.edu/agpuospa for her presentation at the Fall 2024 meeting, which had about 25,000 attendees! Congratulations, Charlotte!
March 3, 2025
In Memoriam: Marty Isaacs
Marty Isaacs was born and brought up in the Bronx, New York. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and then the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In his senior year at Poly, he was …
February 19, 2025
Joshua Mundinger awarded NSF postdoctoral fellowship
Joshua Mundinger, one of our Van Vleck postdocs, was awarded a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. For more information about NSF postdoc fellowships: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/postdocs
February 14, 2025
Mihaela Ifrim and Hao Shen named Vilas Associates
Mihaela Ifrim and Hao Shen received the prestigious Vilas Associates award. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Research Committees …
February 14, 2025- More News