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…