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Math News and Events
Events
April
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April 28Graduate Number Theory SeminarHrishabh Mishra – Manin’s conjecture and height zeta functions2:30 PM, B321 Van Vleck Hall
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April 28Logic SeminarAntonio Nakid Cordero, UW – The Computability and Topology of Asymmetric Information4:00 PM, 901 Van Vleck Hall
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April 28Graduate Applied Math SeminarYanbo Chen – How to see hidden data from observations4:00 PM, B135 Van Vleck Hall
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April 29
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April 29Group Actions and Dynamics SeminarIlya Kapovich (CUNY) – On the Hausdorff dimension and attracting laminations2:25 PM, 1339 Sterling Hall
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April 29Analysis SeminarRoman Bessonov (University of Ljubljana) – Stability estimates for Schur’s algorithm and inverse spectral problems3:30 PM, B119 Van Vleck Hall
News
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Jordan Ellenberg elected as member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Jordan Ellenberg has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, chartered in 1780, was established to recognize accomplished individuals and engage them in addressing…
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Incoming Grad Student receives NSF Fellowship
Ren Watson, currently an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as well as a CGRS Graduate Fellowship from UW-Madison. Ren is…
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Jean-Luc named as 2026 SIAM Fellow
Jean-Luc was elected as a SIAM fellow! Congratulations!! See the news outlet below: SIAM Announces 2026 Class of Fellows | SIAM
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Alum Jiwoong Jang and Hung Tran receive Best Paper Award
Jiwoong Jang, who got his PhD here in 2024, and his former advisor Hung Tran have received the Best Paper Award 2025 for their publication in Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models. Their paper is…