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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
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
Our Director of Student Services, Sarah Garner, is a nominee for a distinguished staff award. She began her career at UW in 2006 at the Department of Astronomy, immediately after receiving her BA in Anthropology from UW. While at Astronomy, she continued her studies at UW in the College of Education, receiving her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in 2010. Sarah later served as Program Director for a Master’s program in the Foster School of… Read more
Dr. Bobby Wilson was awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. Dr. Wilson is a leading researcher in Harmonic Analysis, Dispersive PDE and Geometric Measure Theory,… Read more
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Obituary from The Co-op Funeral Home David Lawrence Ragozin of Seattle passed away peacefully on October 25 at the age of 83. David is survived by his beloved partner Marilyn Charlat Dix. He also leaves behind his children Michael (Sarah) and Dylan (Harriet) Ragozin; his quasi-children Alisa and Michael (… Read more
Jarod Alper will be giving an invited address as part of the Current Events Bulletin, Friday, Jan 10, 5-6pm (… Read more