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Former UW Math undergrad, Noah Giansiracusa, will receive the 2026 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award “for his extraordinary contributions to public understanding of the societal impacts of algorithms through his acclaimed books and influential media presence,” according to the citation.
Giansiracusa is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bentley University, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and the author of How Algorithms Create and…
From CRM News
The 2025 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award is presented to Professor Courtney Paquette (McGill University and member of the CRM) in recognition of her fundamental contribution to the analysis of stochastic optimization algorithms and their applications to machine learning.
Source: caims.ca
John Jaech, UW mathematics alumnus (1951, BA; 1953, M.Sc.), passed away on January 3, 2025, at the age of 95. Internationally recognized for contributions to nuclear safeguards, John’s career spanned working for General Electric on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the Vallecitos Nuclear Center in California, leading the Mathematics Department at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, and then joining Jersey Nuclear (later Exxon Nuclear). He became the Chairman of the Institute of Nuclear…
Jarod Alper will be giving an invited address as part of the Current Events Bulletin, Friday, Jan 10, 5-6pm (https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_invspeakers), on Embracing AI and Formalization: Experimenting with Tomorrow's Mathematical Tools.
Soumik Pal, Zaid Harchaoui, Bamdad Hosseini, JIngwei Hu, and Yanqin Fan are co-organizers of the CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Optimal Transport - Theory and Applications, Friday-Saturday, Jan 10-11 (https://…
DOCTORATE:
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 Tensor Product Property: Representation…
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 Christmas.
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 HERR
DEAN’S MEDAL IN THE NATURAL SCIENCESBS, MATHEMATICSBA, DANCE
Fran Herr is passionate about mathematics and dance. She pursued both at the UW and found ways to creatively connect the seemingly…
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…
DOCTORATE:
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,…