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July 27, 2018
On July 2, at ISMP in Bordeaux, Thomas Rothvoss was awarded the Fulkerson Prize, for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics. It is only given every three years, and you can see the list of previous winners here.
July 16, 2018
When Dorothy Gilford enrolled at the UW to study mathematics in 1935, the department’s one female professor warned her that mathematics was not a promising career for women. Gilford barreled ahead anyway, and went on to become a wildly successful statistician.
Gloria Hewitt similarly defied the odds decades later, when she earned a PhD in mathematics at the UW—only the seventh African-American woman at any university to earn a mathematics PhD. She became a professor and department chair at the... Read more
June 4, 2018
Graduate student Zihui Zhao has been named the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Medal in Natural Sciences. Zihui, a student of Tatiana Toro, studies partial differential equations, geometric measure theory, and harmonic analysis. Zihui has been a Program Associate at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and will be heading to Princeton next year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. She will then move to the University of Chicago... Read more
May 16, 2018
Three promotions will take effect in September 2018: Soumik Pal to Professor, Thomas Rothvoss to Associate Professor, and Jonah Ostroff to Senior Lecturer. Soumik joined the department in 2008, after two years in a postdoctoral position at Cornell. He works in probability theory, including random matrix theory, random graphs and trees, and mathematical finance.
Thomas joined the department in January 2014, after postdoctoral positions at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and MIT. In... Read more
April 26, 2018
Sara Billey and and her collaborator Tímea Tihanyi from the School of Art, Art History and Design are the 2018 recipients of the UW College of Arts and Sciences’ Bergstrom Award for Art and Science. The award, given annually, is intended to support faculty projects “that enhance the student experience and bridge the intersection between art and science.” Sara and Tímea have collaborated on several projects over the years, and Tímea has collaborated as well... Read more
April 19, 2018
Second-year graduate student Amzi Jeffs was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study discrete geometry, with Isabella Novik as his mentor. The award provides three years of financial support. Amzi received his BS in 2016 from Harvey Mudd College, where he wrote a senior thesis on Convexity of Neural Codes.
April 17, 2018
Julia Pevtsova is the 2018 recipient of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Education Prize. The prize is awarded each year to a member of the PIMS community who has made a significant contribution to education in the mathematical sciences, recognizing individuals “who have played a major role in encouraging activities which have enhanced public awareness and appreciation of mathematics, as well as fostering communication among various groups and organizations concerned with... Read more
April 17, 2018
Department of Mathematics professor, Gunther Uhlmann, proposed a series of equations which could be used to build an invisibility cloak.
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April 3, 2018
In mid-March, the Gloria Hewitt Endowed Graduate Student Support Fund was established with an initial principal of $50,000 in order to “promote excellence in the graduate program of the Department of Mathematics, in particular enhancing efforts to achieve a more equitable representation of those under-represented in the field of mathematics.’’ Dr. Hewitt is among the first African-American women in the US to receive a PhD in mathematics. Should the principal (through growth or new gifts) reach... Read more
March 26, 2018
The Simons Foundation has announced that Max Lieblich is one of the 2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics. The fellowship program, which began in 2012, is designed to provide awardees with additional sabbatical funding that can "lead to increased creativity and productivity in research." Tatiana Toro was one of the inaugural fellows, followed in subsequent years by Hart Smith, Gunther Uhlmann, Sándor Kovács, Chris Hoffman, Julia Pevtsova, and now Max.