Mark Wilson (Ph.D., 1995, Passman) is the next editor-in-chief of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. He starts a 3 year term on January 1, 2025. Link: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7191 In addition, he has a new …
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Rajula Srivastava (Ph.D., 2022) awarded 2023 AWM Dissertation Prize
VISP-MA Program celebrated the new semester and the Mid-autumn festival
On September 9th, the VISP-MA Program at the Department of Mathematics hosted an event celebrating the beginning of Fall 22 semester and the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese celebration. Taking place on the top floor …
Raymond Damadian, BS, 1956, inventor of the MRI scanner, dies at age 86.
Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind …
Math alum to speak to graduates at spring commencement
John Gottman, Ph.D., an alumnus of the UW–Madison, is world-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction. He will be awarded an honorary doctoral degree during spring commencement. As is the tradition for …
UW Alumnus Song Sun Wins New Frontier Award
UW Alumnus Song Sun (Ph.D., 2010, Xiu-Xiong Chen) has won a New Frontier Award from the Breakthrough Foundation for many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with …
Alumna becomes next President of MAA
Jennifer (Massey) Quinn, (Ph.D., 1993, Brualdi) has been elected as the next President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). She is currently with the University of Washington Tacoma. She was elected president-elect and will …
Alumna teaches math through knitting
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel features Sara Jensen, a UW–Madison alumna and professor at Carthage College (Ph.D., 2014, Isaacs), who teaches students math through knitting. And we’re not just talking potholders. Someone actually knitted a working Rubik’s …
Math alumnus named University of Denver Chancellor
The University of Denver has chosen Jeremy Haefner as its 19th chancellor. Haefner, who earned a master’s degree and PhD in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and 1986, respectively, joined the University of …