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Former Prof Alejandro Adem to be next Chief Editor of the Bulletin of the AMS

Posted on January 6, 2022

Alejandro Adem, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, and former professor at the UW-Madison Math Department, has been named the next Chief Editor of Bulletin of the American …

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Former Van Vleck Professor Awarded Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research

Posted on October 26, 2020

Amanda L. Folsom, a Van Vleck at the UW from 2007-2010, will receive the 2021 Mary P. Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Folsom is a Professor of Mathematics …

Posted in Awards, Faculty, Former, Postdoc

Former Van Vleck Professor Chosen to Head Banff Research Station

Posted on May 26, 2020

Former Van Vleck Assistant Professor Malabika Pramanik has been appointed as Director of the Banff International Research Station as of July 1, 2020. She was in Madison between 2001 and 2004.  She joined the University …

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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 …

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Alumna teaches math through knitting

Posted on January 28, 2020

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 …

Posted in Alumni, Former, mediamention, Students

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

Jiuya Wang wins AWM Dissertation prize

Posted on November 16, 2018

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 …

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Ex-Prof Milewski Quoted on Quantum Experiment Developments

Posted on October 19, 2018

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 …

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Roch and former student win Best Paper Award at top computational biology conference

Posted on June 1, 2018

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 …

Posted in Awards, Faculty, Former, Students

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