Soledad Benguria-Andrews and Sara Nagreen were honored for career achievement and excellence by the College of Letters and Science on May 8, 2019. Soledad won a 2019 Early Career award for her work with redefining …
Qin Li Awarded Vilas Early Investigator Award
Assistant Professor Qin Li has been awarded an Vilas Early Investigator Award. The award is meant to recognize research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers. These awards not only provide very …
Ifrim and Tran chosen for NSF Early Career Awards
Two Assistant Professors in the Math department, Mihaela Ifrim and Hung Tran, have won National Science Foundation Early Career Awards. A hallmark achievement for young researchers, the CAREER award is described by the NSF as …
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student awarded Department of Energy fellowship
Jason Turner, a doctoral candidate in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). Turner, from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is in Samuel Stechmann’s group. Only …
Putnam Exam Results Highlight Excellence at UW
The UW-Madison Department of Mathematics participated in the national annual Putnam Exam this fall. Sivakorn Sanguanmoo received an honorable mention, which is a very high honor on this competitive test. There was a team of …
Roch named as Vilas Associate
Congratulations to Sebastien Roch for being named as a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. We are proud to see Sebastien being recognized for …
Three UW–Madison mathematicians named Simons Fellows
Three professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are among the 2019 class of Simons Fellows in Mathematics. Gheorghe Craciun, Autumn Kent and Andreas Seeger are among the 48 distinguished scientists named to fellowships. Each year, …
In Memoriam: Terry Millar
Terry Millar died on Saturday, March 9, 2019 after a long battle with cancer. Terry was a faculty member in the Math Department since 1976, retiring in 2015. After dropping out of college to join …
Swimming microbes steer themselves into mathematical order
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 …
Sloan Fellowships Awarded to Two Faculty
Two University of Wisconsin–Madison professors, Mihaela Ifrim and Botong Wang, have been named to 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships — prestigious and competitive awards given to promising young researchers in the early stages of their careers. …