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Ari Stern and graduate student Sanah Suri are developing new mathematics to describe the simulation of complex dynamical systems, a theoretical endeavor with real-world implications.

This fall, Silas Johnson and Tabea Alexa Linhard were among 24 Arts & Sciences faculty to pilot the new Literacies for Life and Career initiative, which focuses on highlighting and developing key skills.

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.

Laura Escobar Vega, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, won a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation for her project “Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry: Flag Varieties, Toric Geometry, and Applications.”

Dr. McCarthy has been awarded an NSF grant for his research on "Operator Analysis and Applications."

Dr. Frankel's research includes low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory.

Dr. Figueroa-Lopez has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation.

An NSF Fellowship in "Veering triangulations, polynomial invariants, and Thurston’s norm."

"Applications of Lie Theory: Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry and Symmetric Functions".

Professor Gregory Knese's "Operator Theory and Stable Polynomials" has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Professor Wick part of successful Australian Research Council Discovery Award.

Funding for Prof. Todd Kuffner's proposal, `Collaborative Research: New Developments in Direct Probabilistic Inference on Interest Parameters', has been awarded by the National Science Foundation.

Yanli Song's "New Application of Equivariant Index Theory" proposal has been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation.

The Department of Mathematics at Washington University and the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon have received a GRAID award to support graduate students.

Professor Quo Shin Chi's article "Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures, III", J. Differential Geom. 94 (2013), no. 3, 469–504  has been chosen by the ICCM for an award as one of the most distinguished papers of the last five years.

Dr. Kuffner's research project "Collaborative Research: Higher-Order Asymptotics and Accurate Inference for Post-Selection" has been awarded funding by NSF.

The Academy of Science will honor Dr. Edward Spitznagel on April 6 for his "contributions to the statistical analysis of medical studies."

The International Society for Bayesian Analysis has awarded Dr. Nan Lin and former Ph.D. student Qing Li for their research on the Bayesian Elastic Net.

Mathematics Professor and Chair John McCarthy received the G. de B. Robinson Award in December along with University of California Professor Jim Agler.

Professor Jose Figueroa-Lopez receives an NSF Grant for research on Optimal and Adaptive Nonparametric Methods for High-Frequency Data.

Contact and symplectic topology are branches of mathematics that are motivated by Physics, specifically by classical mechanics and thermodynamics. This National Science Foundation funded project seeks to extend the application of physical phenomena to the study of three-dimensional topology.

John Shareshian studies problems in combinatorics that arise in or have consequences for other fields of mathematics. There are close connections between combinatorics and other fields of mathematics in which non-discrete objects are studied, including topology and geometry. The work of Shareshian involves the close study of such connections, with the aim of solving problems about both discrete and non-discrete structures.

John McCarthy has received a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study Operator Theory and Applications. He will study problems in operator theory, function theory, and in non-commutative functions.

Irina Holmes, currently a Hale Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship for her work in Harmonic Analysis. She will spend 2016-2018 at Washington University, working with sponsoring scientist Brett Wick.

James E. Pascoe, William Chauvenet Lecturer at Washington University, received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship for his work in Operator Theory and several complex variables. He will be a Fellow for 2016-2019. His research specialty is in non-commutative function theory, and he will work with sponsoring scientist John McCarthy.