Saverio Spagnolie and Arthur Evans of UW–Madison, University of Michigan physicist Christopher Miles and mathematician Michael Shelley of the Flatiron Institute and New York University found that when the particles are confined to a thin sheet and …
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Erman, Sam, Ellenberg Mentions in the Bulletin of the AMS this month.
Two of the four articles published this month in the Bulletin of the American Mathematics Society have UW connections. Daniel Erman and former faculty, Steven Sam, have an article titled “Cubics in 10 variables vs. …
The Wonderful World of Hagfish Slime
Hundreds of meters deep in the dark of the ocean, a shark glides toward what seems like a meal. It’s kind of ugly, eel-like and not particularly meaty, but still probably food. So the shark …
John Heim makes Top Moments at the UW in 2018
Check out the 2018 Top Moments in Time, https://news.wisc.edu/moments-in-time-2018-photographers-choice/ UW Photographers pick their favorite pictures of 2018. John Heim is #16.
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 …
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 …
Jordan Ellenberg featured in Nova’s “Prediction by the Numbers”
Appearing on the PBS program “Nova,” UW–Madison professor and math expert Jordan Ellenberg explained how understanding simple facts about probability can help people in their everyday lives. “Prediction by the Numbers” aired Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.
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 …