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/
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 …
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. …
Topological 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 …
Undergraduates 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 …
Melissa Lindsey featured on L&S Podcast about Prepping for the First Day of Classes
Our own Melissa Lindsey was part of a panel discussion about preparing to teach the first day of classes. L&S Instructional Design Collaborative puts together podcasts for a variety of instructional topics. The one that …
Tonghai Yang awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award
Tonghai Yang has won a Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Kellett awards recognize outstanding faculty seven to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, they provide …
Dynamics Caucus wins NSF RTG
The Math Department’s newly formed Dynamics Group has been awarded a National Science Foundation Research Training Group grant that will bring the university $2.48M over 5 years. The grant will be run by PI Autumn …
Daniel Erman wins Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award
Daniel Erman has won a Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. The award is meant to recognize research and teaching excellence in faculty who are at mid-career. The mid-career designation generally means faculty 10 to 20 years …
Former Van Vleck Professor wins a major grant in Korea
Our former Van Vleck postdoc Donghyun Lee (currently, an associate professor in Postech) won a Hanwoomul Phagi Basic Research grant from the Korean Ministry of Science (the total amount of his award is about two …