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About

An Overview of the Department of Mathematics at the UW-Madison.
Chair: Jean-Luc Thiffeault
The UW Department of Math is ranked #13 in the world and #7 in the nation, by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
It teaches 10% of all of the courses in the College of L&S. In fact, we teach almost as many as some other entire colleges!

We have 63 faculty, 27 postdoctoral positions, and 16 instructional academic staff.

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  • Department of Mathematics
    480 Lincoln Drive
    Van Vleck Hall, Room 213
    Madison, WI 53706
  • Email: mathfrontdesk@math.wisc.edu
  • Phone: 608-263-3054
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