Melanie Matchett Wood has been elected to a 3 year term on the American Mathematical Society Council, starting in 2019. The Council formulates and administers the scientific policies of the Society and acts in an advisory capacity …
Faculty
David Anderson Awarded Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
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, …
Melanie Matchett Wood explores the rank of elliptic curves in new model
Melanie Matchett Wood is one of a group of four researchers who have recently come out with a model that upends the conventional wisdom in their field. They have used intensive computational data to suggest …
Tonghai Yang named as an 2019 Fellow of the AMS
Congratulations to Tonghai Yang, the newest member of our department to be named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2019. He was named For contributions to the theory of Shimura varieties, L-functions, …
Ellenberg Demonstrated Aaron Rodgers is the Superior QB
Jordan Ellenberg crunched the numbers, and he knows the answer. The author of “How Not to Be Wrong” and UW-Madison Mathematics Professor was featured on NBC Sports to prove who was superior: Aaron Rodgers or …
Ex-Prof Milewski Quoted on Quantum Experiment Developments
Oil droplets guided by “pilot waves” have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment, crushing a century-old dream that there exists a single, concrete reality. Paul Milewski (1995-2011 at UW) was recently …
Melanie Matchett Wood Named Minerva Distinguished Visitor at Princeton
Melanie Matchett Wood has been named the Minerva Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University. She will be in residence at Princeton during the Fall semester of 2018. It is a great honor to be chosen for …
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 …
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 …