Congratulations to David Anderson on being awarded as a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. Candidates for the professorships possess unusual qualifications and promise, having been recognized nationally and internationally for the quality of their research. Congratulations, …
Awards
Jiuya Wang wins AWM Dissertation prize
Jiuya Wang (Melanie Wood, Advisor, 2018) has won the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Dissertation Prize. This prize is awarded to three outstanding Ph.D. dissertations presented by female mathematical scientists a year. Jiuya Wang …
Roch and former student win Best Paper Award at top computational biology conference
Math faculty Sebastien Roch and former Ph.D. student Kun-Chieh (Jason) Wang won Best Paper Award at the prestigious 22nd Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2018. Their submission “Circular Networks from …
Gabi Meyer wins L&S Mid-Career Award
Gabi Meyer has been awarded a College of Letters and Science Academic Staff Mid-Career Award. This award, given to members of the L&S academic staff with 8 or more years of service are eligible for this …
Lu Wang earns Vilas Faculty Early Investigator Award
Congratulations to Lu Wang on her award of the Vilas Faculty Early Investigator Award. The award is meant to recognize research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers.
Arinkin, Ellenberg and Roch Named as Simon Fellows
Congratulations to Sebastien Roch, Dima Arinkin and Jordan Ellenberg in being named Simon Fellows. The Simons Fellows programs in both Mathematics and Theoretical Physics provide funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave …
John Heim Awarded Martha Casey Award
John Heim, IT system administrator, has been awarded the 2017 Martha Casey Award for Excellence. This competitive campus-wide award celebrates the “unsung hero” of many departments and John certainly qualifies. John has developed several applications …
Qin Li Awarded NSF Career Grant
Assistant Professor Qin Li has been awarded an NSF Career Grant. Her application on Applicable Kinetic Computation with Boundaries and Rough Media will start in September 1, 2018. Congratulations, Qin!
Math Grad Student Awarded Campus Wide TA Award
Juliette Bruce has won a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award for Exceptional Service. She is a fourth-year PhD student in Mathematics and has taught classes in algebra, statistics and probability, and calculus. Additionally, she has held …
Autumn Kent named Vilas Associate
Autumn Kent was appointed a Vilas Associate through the university’s prestigious Vilas Associates competition. The Vilas Associate appointment is awarded to a faculty with new, ongoing, significant and high-quality research. The Divisional Research Committees of …