Gen Novara, former Department Administrator of the Math Department (1977 to 2004), died recently. She is remembered as a kind and valued member of the department by many faculty, staff and students over the years. …
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Jordan Ellenberg gives 2024 Arnold Ross Lecture
On July 18 at the Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) math camp, Jordan Ellenberg gave the 2024 Arnold Ross lecture. The audience was talented teens and their undergraduate counselors. The Arnold Ross lecture …
In Memoriam: Nigel Boston
It is with great sadness that we post that Nigel Boston has died. He worked for the Math Department from 2002 to 2019. A Kudosboard on the occasion of his retirement in 2019 is filled …
New MSRI Conference announced inspired by work of Georgia Benkart
Established researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students in all related fields and industry are invited to the special workshop “Advances in Lie Theory, Representation Theory, and Combinatorics” at SLMath (MSRI) in Berkeley, California and online. …
John Cobb awarded NSF Postdoc
John Cobb, who is advised by Michael Kemeny and Daniel Erman, has been awarded an NSF postdoc! Congratulations! https://johndcobb.github.io/
Nature article published on AI Improvement by Ellenberg and collaborators
Jordan Ellenberg was recently published in an article in Nature. He collaborated with a group of researchers working with Google Deepmind to train artificial intelligence (AI) to better evaluate responses. This is intended to better …
Math Department Graduate Student Awards Announced
The Excellence in Research Graduate Student Awards go to Shi Chen Yuxi Han Phillip Harris Yunfan He Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott Jiwoong Jang Ruofan Jiang Daniel Levitin Yandi Wu Jiaming Xu The John Nohel Prize in Applied Mathematics …
Stovall weighs in on Kakeya conjecture interconnectedness in Quanta
Quanta Magazine recently published an article on the many conjectures resting on the Kaketa conjecture. Betsy Stovall commented in the article. Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-tower-of-conjectures-that-rests-upon-a-needle-20230912/
Tonghai Yang awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award
Tonghai Yang has won a Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Kellett awards recognize outstanding faculty seven to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, they provide …
3 mathematicians awarded Simons Fellowships
We are pleased to congratulate David Anderson, Chanwoo Kim and Jin-Yi Cai (CS/Math Affiliate) for being awarded Simons Fellowships. They are 3 of 38 announced 2022 Fellows. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from …