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Math Department Welcomes Back Colleagues and Families With BBQ
The WashU Department of Mathematics enjoyed a relaxed afternoon of food, games, and conversation with friends, colleagues, and families. It was a great chance to connect outside the classroom and enjoy the start of the semester together.
Matt Kerr awarded NSF grant
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.
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.