Cool Class: Making Words Count
Jordan Ellenberg is teaching students how to use numbers and data to support written arguments.
Why Do Raisins Dance?
What started as a kitchen science experiment for Professor of Mathematics Saverio Spagnolie and his daughter has grown into a full-fledged study of levitation and dynamics of bodies in supersaturated fluids.
Seventeen L&S graduate students honored with 2022-23 Teaching Assistant Awards
UW–Madison employs over 2,100 teaching assistants (TAs) across its 200-plus undergraduate major and certificate programs. Whether teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community, their work is vital to fulfilling the university’s educational mission and the Wisconsin Idea.
Two L&S faculty among 2023 Sloan Research Fellows
Being honored are Andrew Buller, assistant professor of chemistry, and Jose Israel Rodriguez, assistant professor of mathematics.
Flipping out
Jean-Luc Thiffeault weighs in on the biggest backyard grilling question of all: How many times should you flip your burgers?
UW-Madison mourns an important mathematician and beloved mentor
Georgia Benkart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at UW-Madison, died unexpectedly on April 29 in Madison, Wisconsin, leaving behind a worldwide network of colleagues and former students who considered her not only a gifted mathematician, but also a dear friend and mentor.
Ananth Shankar in Quanta Magazine: Solving the Andre-Oort Conjecture
Professor of math is part of a team that found a solution to a problem that confounded the field for more than 30 years.
Betsy Stovall named AMS Associate Secretary
Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor of Mathematics Betsy Stovall has been named an Associate Secretary of the American Mathematical Society. Stovall, known for her exemplary mentoring, looks forward to fostering “vibrant intellectual communities” in her new role with the Society.
Jordan Ellenberg in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Partisans shouldn't have the power to gerrymander
As the Wisconsin Legislature debates a new set of proposed boundaries for Legislative and Congressional districts, the Professor of Mathematics talks about the ways in which the process is being manipulated.
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