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Math News and Events
Events
- April
- April 21Combinatorics SeminarOwen Goff - Using the quantum torus to investigate the q-Onsager algebra2:25 PM, VIRTUAL
- April 21Group Actions and Dynamics SeminarNoah Caplinger (Chicago) - Mapping tori of expanding maps3:00 PM, B131 Van Vleck Hall
- April 21Graduate Logic SeminarAng Li - Computability-Theoretic Analysis of Ordered Groups, Logical Depth, and Introenumerability3:30 PM, B235 Van Vleck Hall
- April 21
- April 22Relative Trace Formula SeminarYu Luo - Jacquet-Langlands correspondence IV.3:30 PM, B215 Van Vleck Hall
News
Alumna and New Asst Prof Rajula Srivastava wins Mirzakhani New Frontier Prize
Our new colleague Rajula Srivastava (coming this Fall) has won one of the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes! Rajula is also a graduate of our department, having received her PhD in 2022 with Andreas …
April 9, 2025In Memoriam: Jacob (Jaap) Korevaar
Jacob (Jaap) Korevaar has died, aged 102, in the Netherlands. He was a faculty member in our department from 1953 to 1964. He served as Chairman of the Program in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics …
March 21, 2025Rachel 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
Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison On the Death of Professor Emeritus I. Martin Isaacs On Monday, February 17, 2025, the UW math department lost an outstanding researcher and an award-winning …
February 19, 2025- More News