Mathematics PhD Candidate Tiana Johnson Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
Her research focuses on analyzing neural networks and implementing defensive mechanisms against adversarial examples with applications in tsunami prediction.
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Expanding Pathways in Harmonic Analysis
The Expanding Pathways in Harmonic Analysis (EPHA) conference will be held on campus at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) in Saint Louis, MO from Friday, April 5, 2025 until Saturday, April 6, 2025.
Sophomore Carlee Auld finds strength in numbers
President of the new student-led math club invites other number-minded members.
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.
Ljupcho Petrov: 2024 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence Winner
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
How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
"Math for a changing world"
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
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.
Precup wins NSF CAREER award
Martha Precup has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a project uncovering patterns in complex data.
Mathematics Graduate Application - Now Open
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.