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Math News and Events
Events
- March
- March 17Graduate Number Theory SeminarYourong Zang - Some interesting ideas in non-archimedean geometry2:30 PM, B321 Van Vleck Hall
- March 17Logic SeminarJames Hanson (Iowa State) - Special coheirs and model-theoretic trees4:00 PM, 901 Van Vleck Hall
- March 17Graduate Applied Math SeminarWesley Basener - Public key encryption with error correcting codes4:00 PM, B135 Van Vleck Hall
- March 18Graduate Algebraic Geometry SeminarDevin Brown - Introduction to Hurwitz Spaces12:00 PM, B317 Van Vleck Hall
- March 18Langlands-Kottwitz SeminarYihan Gu - Semisimple trace of Frobenius as a twisted orbital integral2:00 PM, 2329 Sterling Hall
- March 18Group Actions and Dynamics SeminarYandi Wu (Rice) - Counting and entropy for hyperbolic surface amalgams2:25 PM, 1339 Sterling Hall
News
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, 2026Dallas Albritton and Paul Apisa selected as Sloan Fellows
Congrats to Dallas Albritton and Paul Apisa! They were selected as 2 of the 21 Sloan fellows in Mathematics for the US and Canada for 2026. The award recognizes scholars who represent the most promising …
February 18, 2026- More News