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Math News and Events
Events
- April
- April 3
- April 6Combinatorics SeminarRodrigo Pimenta (Instituto de Fisica) - Modified Bethe ansatz and partition functions2:25 PM, VIRTUAL
- April 6Graduate Logic SeminarHongyu Zhu - Degree spectra of structures of low Scott rank3:30 PM, B211 Van Vleck Hall
- April 6
- April 6
- April 6AI research in Math at UWQin Li (UW-Madison) - From Gradient Descent to Probability Flows: Optimization in Modern AI4:30 PM, 901 Van Vleck Hall
News
Alum Jiwoong Jang and Hung Tran receive Best Paper Award
Jiwoong Jang, who got his PhD here in 2024, and his former advisor Hung Tran have received the Best Paper Award 2025 for their publication in Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models. Their paper is entitled “Discrete coagulation–fragmentation …
March 18, 2026
Jordan Ellenberg to speak at Focus on the Humanities lecture
Jordan Ellenberg will speak at a Focus on the Humanities lecture on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 5:00pm. The lecture will be held in the Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Ave., Madison, WI. Mathematics …
March 2, 2026Boyana Martinova receives Capstone Teaching Award
It is a great pleasure to announce that one of our graduate students earned a Campus-Wide TA Award by the Campus-Wide TA Award Committee for the 2025-2026 academic year. Boyana Martinova was chosen for a Capstone Teaching Award, …
March 2, 2026Announcing the new Master of Science in Applied and Computational Mathematics
The MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics provides students with a rigorous, modern training in applied and computational mathematics and in the mathematics of data. The program is targeted to students with an undergraduate degree …
February 25, 2026- More News
