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Mathematics PhD Candidate Tiana Johnson Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

4.30.25 | WashU Office of the Provost

Her research focuses on analyzing neural networks and implementing defensive mechanisms against adversarial examples with applications in tsunami prediction.

Lecturer Silas Johnson among seven faculty members who received inaugural Teaching Innovation Awards

6.17.24

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.

Ljupcho Petrov: 2024 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence Winner

5.15.24

Ljupcho Petrov, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in mathematics, has been honored with the 2024 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Brett Wick awarded NSF grant

4.12.24

"Math for a changing world"

2.28.24

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.

Arts & Sciences faculty integrate Literacies for Life and Career into their classrooms

1.19.24

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

11.22.23

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.

Precup wins NSF CAREER award

9.13.23

Martha Precup has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project uncovering patterns in complex data.

Escobar wins CAREER grant for interdisciplinary combinatorics

4.5.22

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.”

Francesco Di Plinio awarded new NSF grant

4.29.21

John McCarthy Awarded NSF Grant

4.15.21

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

Steven Frankel Awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Grant

2.17.21

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