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Imagine an art class where you only did paint by numbers, or a music class where you werent allowed to play a song until you practiced scales for 20 years. This is often what its like to take a math class, where students spend most of their time learning to solve problems that have already...Featured
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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.
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Uniform Convergence is a one-woman play, written and performed by mathematician Corrine Yap. It juxtaposes the stories of two women trying to find their place in a white male-dominated academic world. The first is of historical Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, who was lauded as a pioneer for women in science but only after years of struggle for recognition. Her life’s journey is told… Read more
UW Mathematics and ACMS Undergraduate majors Joseph Wang and Joeph Rafael have received honorable mentions for their poems in the AMS Math Poetry Contest! Please enjoy their work.
The Man in Monte Carlo
by Joseph Wang
I met one in Monte Carlo,
whose losses caused him no sorrow.
“I’ve lost ten times, you see,
so soon, a winner I’ll be.
Surely, I’ll win tomorrow.”
I took him on a… Read more
We hope that you will consider joining us for the 2025 summer session in mathematics! Please visit our webpage to learn more about the courses and modalities offered.
UW Math has been featured in the local and national media for innovative and interdisciplinary educational and public engagement efforts. UW Math has been deeply involved in the UW in the High School program since 2000, led by then-chair Professor Emeritus Don Marshall and Professor David Collingwood. This program was recently recognized in… Read more
Postdoctoral Scholar François Clément has won the premier Prix de thèse 2025 de l'EDITE, an annual award given by École Doctorale Informatique, Télécommunications et Électronique for the best PhD thesis submitted in the past year (An Optimization Perspective on the Construction of Low-Discrepancy Point Sets). EDITE enrolls over 450 graduate students in 20… Read more
Mathematics alum Janet Galore and Computer Science alum Demi Raven have been making the news for turning a century-old Beacon Hill grocery store into a home and arts space. Along with being an exploration of an eclectic community space, “The Life Eclectic” is an exploration of the collector’s impulse and “Deep Nerdery.” UW professor Delancy Wu adds her insights about the psychological underpinnings of collecting and the importance of following your passions.… Read more
From the National Academy of Sciences
Nima Anari, Stanford University, Kuikui Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shayan Oveis Gharan and Cynthia Vinzant, University of Washington, will receive the 2025 Michael and Sheila Held Prize.
Anari, Liu, Oveis Gharan, and Vinzant have made major advances in the theory of matroids and… Read more