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Abeer Al Ahmadieh (advisor: Cynthia Vinzant) | Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Determinantal Representations and the Image of the Principal Minor Map
David Clancy (advisor: Soumik Pal) | Postdoc, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissertation: Epidemics on critical random graphs: limits and continuum descriptions
Nicolas Courts (advisor: Julia Pevtsova) | Postdoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Dissertation: Schroedinger's… Read more
Former UW math graduate student, Peter Littig, co-hosts a math podcast with Noah King. The Math Club is a witty and humorous discussion of mathematical concepts, history, paradoxes, and puzzles. Their latest episode is called "So Many Birds" and poses a holiday challenge: Devise a function that calculates the number of gifts the true love has given after N days in the song, The 12 Days of… Read more
Excerpt from PERSPECTIVES | Article courtesy of Nancy Joseph
Each year, the Dean’s Medal honors one graduating senior from each of the College’s four divisions — Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences — based on academic performance and nominations from faculty.
FRAN… Read more
Article by Ruth A. Situma | The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Amy Wiebe has gone places, but her heart is truly at home in the Pacific Northwest. Aside from her first postdoctoral fellowship in Germany, the rest of her degrees have been at institutions on the west coast: she completed both her undergraduate and master's degree at Simon Fraser University and then moved down the coast to the University of Washington, where she worked on her Ph.D. under Professor Rekha… Read more
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Samantha Davies (advisor: Thomas Rothvoss) | Postdoc at Northwestern
Dissertation: Designing Scheduling Algorithms via a Mathematical Perspective
Samantha Fairchild (Jayadev Athreya) | Postdoc at Max Planck
Counting social interactions for discrete subsets of the plane
Charles Godfrey (Sándor Kovács) | Postdoc at Pacific Northwest National Lab
Higher direct images of ideal sheaves,… Read more
Congratulations to Amzi Jeffs and Anthony Sanchez, who have been awarded Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships by the National Science Foundation! Amzi Jeffs will be going to Carnegie Mellon University and Anthony Sanchez to UC San Diego.
The purpose of the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) is to support future leaders in mathematics and statistics by facilitating their participation in postdoctoral research environments that will have… Read more
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Chi-Yu Cheng (advisor: Jarod Alper) | Postdoc at University of Missouri - Columbia
Dissertation: Variation of Instability in Invariant Theory
Nikolaos Eptaminitakis (Robin Graham & Gunther Uhlmann) | Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue
Geodesic X-ray Transform on Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds
Graham W. Gordon (Sara Billey) | Mathematics Teacher at Proof School
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Sean T. Griffin received the "Best Student Presentation Award" at the 2020 Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference (… Read more
Gloria Conyers Hewitt received her MS (1960) and PhD (1962) from the University of Washington, becoming one of the first African-American women nationally to receive a doctorate in mathematics. Her thesis, "Direct and Inverse Limits of Abstract Algebras," was written under the direction of Richard Pierce. Dr. Hewitt became an Assistant Professor in the University of Montana Department of Mathematical Sciences in Fall 1961 and served as Chair of the Department from 1995 to… Read more
Article courtesy of Nancy Joseph | PERSPECTIVES
Each year, the College honors four graduating students — one from each of its four divisions — as Dean’s Medalists, based on academic performance and faculty recommendations. See why this year’s four recipients, who together represent eight Arts &… Read more