Mark Wilson (Ph.D., 1995, Passman) is the next editor-in-chief of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. He starts a 3 year term on January 1, 2025. Link: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7191 In addition, he has a new …
Benedek Valko named Vilas Associate
Benedek Valko has been named a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Research Committees on the basis …
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. …
Sébastien Roch wins Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Award
Sébastien has won a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, awarded by the Provost’s office. Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships (VDAP) recognize UW–Madison faculty members whose distinguished scholarship has advanced the confines of knowledge, and whose excellence also …
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/
Marissa Loving published article in Feb. AMS Notices.
Our own Marissa Loving has an article in February’s Notices! Especially of interest to those at the beginning of their careers. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202402/noti2877/noti2877.html
MXM Spring 2024 applications are open!
Dear Undergraduate Students, Are you interested in exploring research level mathematics? Are you curious about open questions in various active research fields? Or maybe you want to apply your programming knowledge to answer interesting mathematical …
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 …
Parvarthi Kooloth awarded AWM dissertation prize
Our recently-graduated PhD student Parvathi Kooloth has won one of the two AWM Dissertation Prizes, which will be presented at the JMM. Parvathi did her PhD under Leslie Smith’s supervision. Congratulations, Parvathi! *** The Association …
Yue Sun wins top prize in Gallery of Fluid Motion in APS Fluids meeting
Yue Sun, a student of Chris Rycroft, won the top prize in the “Gallery of Fluid Motion” competition at this year’s annual Americal Physical Society Fluids Meeting! She did her beautiful experiments in Saverio Spagnolie’s AMEP …