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Rycroft part of a team to define geometric development of cricket embyros
Professor Christopher Rycroft was part of an team that analyzed how cricket embryos developed. The researchers were stumped by the nucleus behavior until Chris Rycroft looked at it and detemined that the behavior seemed geometric …
August 8, 2022
In Memoriam: Donald Crowe
Donald Warren Crowe, 94, passed away on July 4, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was born October 28, 1927 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Lawrence and Vera (Pereau) Crowe. Donald was a distinguished professor of mathematics …
July 6, 2022
Andrei Caldararu receives FRG from NSF
Andrei Caldararu has received an FRG (Focused Research Group) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), joint with Benjamin Antieau (Northwestern), Max Lieblich (University of Washington), Akhil Mathew (University of Chicago) and Martin Olsson (Berkeley). …
May 13, 2022UW-Madison mourns an important mathematician and beloved mentor
Georgia Benkart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at UW-Madison, died unexpectedly on April 29 in Madison, Wisconsin, leaving behind a worldwide network of colleagues and former students who considered her not only a gifted mathematician, but …
April 30, 2022
Tonghai Yang part of team to win Alexanderson Award
Tonghai Yang together with a team of four other mathematicians have won the fourth Alexanderson Award for their paper “Modularity of generating series of divisors on unitary Shimura varieties” (Asterisque 421 (2020), pages 7-125). You …
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