Congratulations are in order for Betsy Stovall, Sergey Denisov, and Jordan Ellenberg for being selected as 2025 Simons Fellows: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees Congratulations to all three!
Awards
Hao Shen wins Rollo Davidson Prize
I’m happy to report that Hao has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for his deep contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and the furthering of our understanding of the stochastic Yang-Mills dynamics. This …
Affiliate Prof. Steve Wright to be plenary speaker at ICM 2026
Steve Wright, a Math affiliate and Chair of the Computer Sciences Department, will give a plenary talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia in July 2026. Steve works in the area of optimization …
New graduate students arriving next fall with prestigious fellowships
Timothy Cheek, who is currently studying at the University of Michigan receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s concurrently, has been awarded a prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. Timothy is broadly interested in number theory and algebraic geometry, with his previous research …
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 …
Rachel 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 …
Charlotte 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!
Joshua Mundinger awarded NSF postdoctoral fellowship
Joshua Mundinger, one of our Van Vleck postdocs, was awarded a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. For more information about NSF postdoc fellowships: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/postdocs
Mihaela Ifrim and Hao Shen named Vilas Associates
Mihaela Ifrim and Hao Shen received the prestigious Vilas Associates award. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Research Committees …
Maurice Fabien awarded MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship
Maurice Fabien was awarded the MGB-SIAM Early Career Fellowship. These awards are given to accomplished early career professionals who were chosen based on their achievements; active support of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their communities; and …