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Awards

UW Alumnus Song Sun Wins New Frontier Award

Posted on September 10, 2020

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 …

Posted in Alumni, Awards

2017 Talent Search Winner Named Goldwater Scholar

Posted on April 13, 2020

Mostafa Hassan, of Greenfield, Wisconsin, has been named 1 of 4 Goldwater Scholars for the UW this year.  He will graduate in May 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer engineering. He is a …

Posted in accolades, Awards, mediamention, Students

Polly Yu and Geoff Bentsen honored for teaching

Posted on April 2, 2020

Congratulations Polly Yu, our distinguished graduate student, for being selected to be a teaching fellow of L&S! Congratulations to Geoff Bentsen for being a runner-up to this award! Fellowship in the Teaching Academy is an …

Posted in Awards, Graduate Students

Putnam Exam Results for UW Undergrads Impressive

Posted on February 20, 2020

The UW has scored 15th nationwide in the annual Putnam competition.  Sivakorn Sanguanmoo received an honorable mention. Two undergrads, Sivakorn Sanguanmoo and Ruiting Tong, made the top 200. The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the …

Posted in Awards, Students

Former Professor Wins AMS Bergman Prize

Posted on February 17, 2020

Former UW Math Professor Franc Forstnerič (1990-2001) has been awarded one of the 2019 Stefan Bergman prizes of the American Mathematical Society. Franc Forstnerič is awarded the Bergman Prize for his many contributions to several complex …

Posted in Awards, Faculty, Former

Andrei Caldararu receives Vilas Associate Award

Posted on January 17, 2020

Andrei Caldararu has been selected for an appointment as a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the Divisional Research …

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Thomas Kurtz named as a 2020 Fellow of AMS

Posted on December 2, 2019

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thomas Kurtz, who has been named as a member of the 2020 Class of AMS Fellows!  He is specifically mentioned for “For research in probability and its applications, especially for contributions …

Posted in accolades, Awards, Emeritus

Jordan Ellenberg Elected A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell

Posted on September 18, 2019

Jordan Ellenberg joins a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, another bestselling author and a leader in global sustainable agriculture are among six newly elected Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large at Cornell. The professors-at-large program at Cornell sponsors up …

Posted in accolades, Awards, Faculty, mediamention

Support plus drive equals success

Posted on May 10, 2019

A supportive environment helped a group of female graduate students in mathematics reach lofty goals. Already a leader in the number of women hired as faculty members, the department hopes to continue improving the experience …

Posted in Awards, Former, Graduate Students, Students

Four faculty honored with Van Vleck Prizes

Posted on May 10, 2019

Every four years the UW-Madison Mathematics Department awards Van Vleck Prizes to faculty members on the basis of excellence in research and promise of significant future achievement.  The prizes are funded by the Van Vleck …

Posted in Awards, Faculty
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