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- Department Hosts High School Math Competition
- LaRose Named Collegiate Lecturer
- Kriz Elected to the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
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- Graduate Student Robert Walker recognized at CAARMS Conference
- Fomin Receives Steele Prize
- Special Lecture on Statistics and Modeling
- Fintzen Awarded Dissertation Prize
- Anna Gilbert’s Project Funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Neriman Tokcan Receives Michigan Precision Health Scholar Award
- Lagarias Named Distinguished University Professor
- Forger's Research on Math and Music Featured in SIAM Article
- Trachette Jackson Featured in Forbes Article
- Barvinok to Give Simons Lectures at MIT
- Undergraduates Amanda Burcroff and Noah McNeal receive Marshall Scholarships
- Michigan Reception at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings
- Karen Smith elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Bhargav Bhatt named 2019 Simons Investigator
- Sergey Fomin receives Simons Fellowship
- DeBacker, Koch, and Zeytuncu named Faculty Outreach Fellows
- UM Quant Program student team wins IAQF competition
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- Robert Megginson received the 2019 Distinguished Mentor Award
- Undergrad Ankita Mohapatra wins Honorable Mention for AWM Women in Math Essay Contest
- Alex Wright Named 2020 Sloan Fellow
- Dick Canary and Tasho Kaletha Awarded 2020 Simons Fellowships
- Robert Griess Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Forger Creates App to Address Sleep Issues Due to Social Distancing
- Sarah Koch receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
- Gavin LaRose Receives 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Michigan Section of the MAA.
- Research by Nellis, Bayraktar, and Cohen provides prediction model for pandemic lockdown outcomes.
- Smale and Rajapakse Explore Mathematics and Biology
- Jackson and Smith highlighted in AMS Notices article on History of Women in Mathematics
- Daniel Irvine and Jasmine Powell Named Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors
- Alumna Frances Allen, MS 1957, Turing Award recipient, passes away
- Bhargav Bhatt Receives New Horizons Prize
- Math Corps 2020 was a SUCCESS!
- Alumna Suzy Weekes named Executive Director of SIAM
- Math alum Paul Milgrom awarded Nobel Prize in Economics
- Trachette Jackson's Research Featured in LSA Magazine
- Graduate student Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin wins AWM poster competition
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Asaf Cohen joined the UM Mathematics Department in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in Probability and Statistics from Tel-Aviv University in 2013, under the direction of Eilon Solan. Professor Cohen was a Postdoc Assistant Professor at UM from 2014-2017, and an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Haifa from 2017-2019. Professor Cohen’s research interests are in applied probability, stochastic processes, and control theory. Specifically, he focuses on mean-field games, mathematical finance and actuary, diffusion scale and large deviation scale analysis of stochastic control problems and games. His work has included machine learning, model uncertainty, risk-sensitive control, heavy traffic regimes, and partial differential equations techniques in stochastic control and differential games.
Alex Wright joined the UM Mathematics Department in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Chicago under the direction of Alex Eskin. He received a Clay Research Fellowship in 2014, and held positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Stanford University. Professor Wright studies geometry and dynamics, especially on moduli spaces, and special families of algebraic curves that arise in this context. His other areas of interest include Teichmüller theory and ergodic theory on homogeneous spaces. Recently he was awarded the Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians from Penn State University. The prize is given bi-annually to recognize outstanding contributions to dynamical systems made by researchers within four years of their PhD. In addition, in Professor Wright received the 2019 Levi L. Conant Prize from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is being recognized for his article “From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces” published in 2016 in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Vol. 53, pp. 41-56). The Conant Prize is awarded annually and recognizes the best expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS in the preceding five years