 The Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington is one of the major research mathematics departments in the United States. It has an excellent research reputation, a strong, demanding program of graduate study in mathematics, and a full range of excellent undergraduate course offerings. The department has approximately 60 faculty with research interests in virtually every area of mathematics. The department has about 100 full-time students in the graduate program and over 800 undergraduate majors, including 600 in the Mathematics undergraduate program and 200 in the joint ACMS program.
Recent Department News
Ron Irving selected as next chair
June 2013: We are very pleased to share the news that Ron Irving will serve as the next department chair for a five-year term starting July 1, 2013.
Sam Hopkins awarded Dean's Medal for 2013
May 2013: Sam Hopkins has been awarded this year's Dean's Medal in the Natural Sciences. A double major in Math and Computer Science, Sam is also a recent recipient of an NSF Graduate Fellowship that he will use to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell. The College of Arts & Sciences presents the undergraduate Dean's Medal annually to an outstanding student in each of its four divisions. Sam is the 10th Math major in 12 years to be honored with a Dean's Medal. Congratulations to Sam and all the other outstanding Math students.
UW Math offers online calculus courses
May 2013: Online versions of the calculus courses Math 124/125/126 are now available for enrollment for autumn quarter. Both current UW students and non-matriculated students (from outside the UW) may register. Click here for registration information.
Congratulations to UW Winners of NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships
April 2013: Elliot Paquette and Brent Werness have won NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships. Paquette is a fifth year graduate student, completing his PhD in the spectral theory of random matrices under the direction of Ioana Dumitriu. His NSF postdoc will be spent at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Werness completed his PhD at the University of Chicago before joining our department in 2012. He will remain in the department as an NSF postdoc. His primary fields of interest are Schramm-Loewner Evolutions and related processes.
Jack Lee co-recipient of AMS Bergman Prize
March 2013: Jack Lee and his co-author David Jerison of MIT were jointly awarded the 2012 Stefan Bergman Prize by the American Mathematical Society "for their pioneering works on the CR Yamabe problem, which led to finding canonical metrics in a given conformal class, for strictly pseudo-convex manifolds." Additional information may be found in the Notices of the AMS.
Math students awarded UW Freshman Medal and UW Junior Medal
January 2013: Each year the UW recognizes the top student in the previous year's freshman, junior and sophomore classes as class medalists, and the top graduating senior as the President's Medalist. David Jekel and Eric Lei were recently awarded this year's Freshman Medal and Junior Medal, respectively. David majors in Classics and Math, and Eric in CSE, Econ and Math. Additional information can be found in UW Today. With Eric's and David's awards, Math majors have won 11 (over 40%) of the UW medals awarded during the past six years. Congratulations to Eric, David and all the other outstanding Math students.
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