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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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Arts & Sciences alumnus Spencer Kraisler (BS, 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.
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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…
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…
Thuc Nhi Nguyen got her start the UW Daily. Now she's a sports reporter for Los Angeles Times, writing about the Lakers and the Olympics.
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Professors Stefan Steinerberger and Sándor Kovács shared their own stories of being first-generation students in the College of Arts & Sciences newsletter.
Stefan Steinerberger Associate Professor, Department of MathematicsHow did your experience as a first…
ACMS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-2026 scholarships.Congratulations to our amazing students!Learn more about our student scholarships here! Bernbaum Family Endowed Scholarship....Abraham Goo Endowed ScholarshipEvelynn PrewittKiryn Morita Phuc NguyenAltti KoskinenEric LeonenYash Meher
UW Mathematics graduate students Cameron Wright and Alexander Wang helped lead the Park City Experimental Mathematics Lab (PCXML) at the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) in Summer 2025. PCMI, an initiative of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), brings together members of the mathematics community at all levels for three weeks in the summer in Park City, Utah. Cameron and Alex guided…
We are delighted to congratulate Gunther Uhlmann on being awarded the Sven Berggren Prize of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Berggren Prize is awarded to an eminent person who has distinguished themselves in the service of science or society. Professor Uhlmann was awarded the prize in recognition of his groundbreaking mathematical work on inverse problems, imaging, microlocal…