On Nov. 4 and 5, Wash U hosted the Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS), a twice-yearly meeting of algebraic geometers in the western half of the United States and Canada. WashU event organizers — including Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Matthew Kerr and Wanlin Li, in Arts & Sciences — believe this was the largest conference organized by the math department in recent years, with approximately 150 participants.
Martha Precup has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project uncovering patterns in complex data.
The Mathematics and Statistics Department at Washington University in St. Louis will start accepting applications for fall 2024 graduate programs (Ph.D. in Mathematics, Ph.D. in Statistics, Master’s in Mathematics and Master’s in Statistics) in early September 2023. For the Ph.D. programs (Mathematics and Statistics), the application deadline is December 4, 2023. The Master’s in Mathematics deadline is January 15, 2024. The Master’s in Statistics deadline is March 1, 2024.
Canvas support virtual open office hours will be available to help instructors prepare for Fall 2023 classes
Fall Virtual Conversations Sessions: Cohosted by Dr. Tiffany Lang, Instructional Designer & Canvas Administrator and Dr. Sally Wu, Assistant Director for Educational Technology
In a new study, Stern and colleagues have developed a data-driven method for measuring how well communities are represented by district maps.
As the Dean’s Fellow for Digital Transformation, Brett Wick, who is also a professor of mathematics and statistics, is focused on helping to build the structural foundations that will support cutting-edge research in data science and digital innovation in Arts & Sciences.
Xiang Tang, professor of mathematics and statistics, has been elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Soumendra Lahiri, the Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Mathematics and Statistics, and Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, a doctoral student working with Lahiri: There are a lot more bots on Twitter than you might think.
A short film about the Prime Number Theorem mathematical proof!