Big Congrats to Rackham Teaching Award Winners

Please join me in congratulating Dan Irvine and Jasmine Powell, who both won Rackham Outstanding GSI Awards. Math GSIs do well in this competition, typically. Jasmine and Dan will join previous years’ winners Trevor Hyde, Joe Kraisler, and Bob Lutz (among our students who are still at here). The full list winners going all the…

Visu Makam wins Sumner Myers Award

Visu Makam, UM PhD 2018, will return to Ann Arbor to deliver the Colloquium Talk this week on his Award Winning Thesis: Invariant theory, Tensors and Computational complexity. Date:  Tuesday, March 12, 2019  Location:  1360 East Hall (4:00 PM to 5:00 PM) Visu is currently a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. His thesis,…

Congratulations to Rackham Fellowship Winners!

Emanuel Reinecke, Harry Richman, and Rachel Webb have all been awarded the   Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! In addition, William Clark was selected as an alternate, should any of the winners from across campus be unable to accept, an honor in itself. Congratulations to all! This prestigious fellowship pays stipend, tuition and benefits for the full 2019-2020…

Innovative Teaching Opportunity: full funding

The Sweetland Writing Center offers Math (and all Rackham) PhD students  a great opportunity to do something different to support themselves, and to get additional training especially valuable for those planning to pursue a career in academia. Please consider applying! Our own Rachel Webb won one of these fellowships, and enjoyed her teaching appointment through it. The…

Raymundo Navarrete wins Smereka Award

Raymundo Navarrete has been selected by the AIM committee as winner of the department’s Smereka prize for the best AIM thesis.  His thesis, “Embeddings and Prediction of Dynamical Time Series,” was supervised by Professor Divakar Viswanath. Currently a postdoc at the University of Arizona, Ray will come back to Ann Arbor and give an AIM…

NSF Summer Research Internships

The NSF offers a unique opportunity for Math PhD students to participate in 10 week summer internships one of the National Labs.  Research areas specifically being recruited include: Algebra and Number Theory Analysis Applied Mathematics Combinatorics Computational Mathematics Foundations Geometric Analysis Mathematical Biology Probability Statistics Topology although strong math students in other areas will also…

Congratulations to New Fellows

10/24/11 Burton Memorial Tower is framed by the color of autumn leaves during a "Day in the Life" of the University of Michigan on October 24, 2011.

Six PhD students recently received word that they will be receiving a fellowship for the Winter Semester! Five of the students will receive the Rackham One-term Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship covers their tuition, stipend and benefits. The fellowship rewards students who have been doing strong work, and gives them the opportunity to focus on writing…