Professor John Shareshian Invited to Speak at American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting
Professor John Shareshian will speak at the American Mathematical Society's 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting.
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Professor Martha Precup named the 2026-2027 Ruth I. Michler Prize Recipient by the Association for Women in Mathematics
Martha Precup is the recipient of the 2026-2027 Ruth I. Michler Prize for her research interests which center on the rich combinatorics and algebraic geometry that arise in the study of flag varieties. In her semester at Cornell, she plans to expand on her recent work on Hessenberg varieties and Springer fibers.
Professor Brett D. Wick and Team Awarded A$591k Grant by the Australian Research Council
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.
Professor Rachel Roberts named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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.
Professor Brett D. Wick named Inaugural Robert G. and Maxine W. Scheibe Professor of Mathematics
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.
Matt Kerr awarded NSF grant
Lecturer Silas Johnson among seven faculty members who received inaugural Teaching Innovation Awards
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.
Brett Wick awarded NSF grant
Arts & Sciences faculty integrate Literacies for Life and Career into their classrooms
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.
Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium comes to WashU
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.