Professor Brett D. Wick, in collaboration with Macquarie University Professor Xuan Thinh Duong and others, submitted work in harmonic analysis and spaces of functions on manifolds to the Australian Research Council. Their work was selected as a 2026 ARC Discovery Project, garnering over A$591k (US$384k) in grant funding.

The Department of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis is proud to announce that Professor Rachel Roberts has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2026.

The Department of Mathematics is delighted to announce that Professor Brett D. Wick has been appointed as the inaugural Robert G. and Maxine W. Scheibe Professor of Mathematics, effective October 1, 2025.

Seven teaching-track and practice-track faculty members will receive funding to develop innovative pedagogical techniques as part of a new award program in Arts & Sciences. The recipients of the inaugural Arts & Sciences Teaching Innovation Awards include Silas Johnson, lecturer in mathematics.

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.

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.”