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Jarod Alper, joint with Harold Blum, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, and Chenyang Xu, received the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award by the International Congress for Basic Science (ICBS) for their paper "Reductivity of the automorphism group of K-polystable Fano varieties".
Current PhD student Yirong Yang and 2025 alumna Emily Casey were both awarded Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) this year. Yang will be going to Georgia Institute of Technology and Casey is at the University of Minnesota.
For the last couple of years, Teaching Professor Andy Loveless has been leading Washington Experimental Mathematics Lab (WXML) projects in exploring curiosity through mathematics and visuals.These WXML teams have been asking questions such as: "Which melts faster, a spherical or cubic ice cube? How does a water tank’s shape affect how it drains? What do wave equations, Laplace transforms,…
Over three days the UW Math AI lab, in collaboration with the UW PLSE Lab hosted students, faculty, and industry friends to hack with Lean, an open-source programming language and proof assistant that enables correct, maintainable, and formally verified code. Teams worked on a variety of projects, including Formalized Origami; Rubik's cube solvers; and an Overleaf-to-Lean trust layer. Judges…
Richard W. Kenyon, Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, will give a series of three lectures on "Dimers and webs" from May 12-14, 2026.Kenyon received his PhD from Princeton University in 1990 under the direction of William Thurston. After a postdoc at IHES, he held positions at CNRS in Grenoble, Lyon, and Orsay and then became professor at UBC, Brown University and…
Members of the UW Math AI Lab traveled to Rio de Janeiro for ICLR 2026, where undergraduates Luke Alexander, Evan Wang, Rohan Pandey, and Simon Chess joined Vasily Ilin, Math PhD student and Math AI Lab Director, to present five papers on AI for Math (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The lab is also celebrating Vasily’s paper being accepted as an ICML 2026 main-conference spotlight paper (top 2.2%).
The University of Washingtons graduate and professional degree programs again were recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Reports 2026 Best Graduate Schools released late Monday.
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Arts & Sciences alumnus Spencer Kraisler (BA, Mathematics, 2021), currently a doctoral student in aeronautics & astronautics (A&A) in the College of Engineering, is A&A's 2026 Condit Fellow. His research is informed in part by his undergraduate mathematics training in manifold theory, the study of smooth, curved spaces.
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After creating popular social media content analyzing basketball statistics, UW Mathematics doctoral student Maddy Brown created a course to help students present data through storytelling. Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News
Thomas Rothvoss, Professor of Mathematics and CSE, has been awarded the 2025 Trevisan Prize in the mid-career category. The Trevisan Prize was instituted in 2025 jointly by Bocconi University and the Italian Academy of Sciences to commemorate and celebrate the contributions of Luca Trevisan (1971-2024), to recognize exceptional research contributions in theoretical aspects of computer science…