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.
Professors Gary Jensen and Steven Krantz reflect on Dr. Boothby's life and contributions to the mathematical sciences.
Dr. McCarthy has been awarded an NSF grant for his research on "Operator Analysis and Applications."
Department Chair John McCarthy spoke with St. Louis Public Radio about navigating Covid-19 risks while reopening baseball stadiums around the country.
Dr. Frankel's research includes low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory.
Dr. Figueroa-Lopez has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation.
An NSF Fellowship in "Veering triangulations, polynomial invariants, and Thurston’s norm."
"Applications of Lie Theory: Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry and Symmetric Functions".