The University of Michigan Math department is an academic member of the Erdos Institute, an organization founded by OSU math professor Roman Holowinsky to help “PhDs get the jobs they love and companies get the PhDs they need.” Each semester, the Erdos Institute hosts a data science boot camp where hundreds of PhD students gain…
Category: Awards
Michigan Math PhD students are amazing! Check out some of the recent awards they have won for research, teaching, and service.
UM Math PhD team takes first prize in Erdos Competition
Big congrats to Math PhD students Anna Brosowski, Sayantan Khan, Nancy Wang, Ethan Zell and Yili Zhang—otherwise known as Team Supermassive Blackhole—who took first place in the Erdös Institute‘s most recent Data Science bootcamp competition! Their project, titled Movie Finder, is a movie search app that gives the title of a movie based on what a…
Two Sigma Fellowships
I got the following request for nominations from Leighton Symons at Two Sigma: Two Sigma are proud to announce the continuation of the Two Sigma PhD Fellowship program, which supports doctoral students pursuing a PhD in a STEM field such as Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Finance/Econometrics. At Two Sigma we understand that diversity…
Cornwell Prize recipients announced
The Math Department’s highest research prize is the Wirt & Mary Cornwell Prize, which is awarded to the student deemed to show the most promise in mathematical research. The award carries a $10,000 cash prize! This year, the Cornwell prize is shared by Trevor Hyde and Takumi Murayama . Trevor will be a Dixon instructor at the…
Math has huge number of GSIs among Honored Instructors
Many Math Department graduate students, post-docs and faculty were recognized with the University’s Honored Instructor Award. These are student-nominated awards for excellent teaching, mentoring and inspiring. Check out the huge number of our department colleagues who were honored this spring!
Congrats to Summer Research Grants recipients!
Academic mathematicians need to write strong research proposals. Your professors typically apply for research grants on a three-year cycle (for example, from NSF), writing a fifteen page proposal and then an annual report every year on the progress. This year we were fortunate to have sufficient funds to offer students with no other source of…
Congrats to Summer Fellowship Recipients!
The following PhD students were chosen to receive a summer fellowship because of their outstanding progress in the program, their promise for future research, and their valuable contributions to the scholarly life of the department. Karen Butt, working with Ralf Spatzier, The Juha Heinonen Memorial Fellowship (more detailed biography), made possible by the family and…
Math Department Graduate Student Awards
Our department has a large number of committed graduate students who make huge contributions to the scholarly life of our department. We are grateful to all of them for their generosity, vision and energy, which bring us many seminars, research activity, outreach activities, an inclusive culture, mentoring for younger students, and friendship. This year, we…
Congrats to Haoyang Guo on a Rackham Research Grant!
Haoyang Guo has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. Please join me in congratulating him. Als0: ask him how he got it.
Charlotte Chan to receive Rackham Thesis Award: All invited to celebrate!
https://rackham.umich.edu/event/proquest-distinguished-dissertation-awards-ceremony/