Fiona Vaughn was one of seven staff members to be named a 2025 Outstanding Staff Award Winner in Arts & Sciences.

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.

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

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

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.

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.