| UW Mathematics | Autumn 2006 |
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Welcome Message from the chair Eliana Hechter Undergraduate awards Scholarship winners REU program Graduate awards SAGE PIMS 10th anniversary Isabella Novik Fields medals From the President New professorships Outreach programs Undergraduate program Transitions Visitors Ron Pyke Recent degrees Donors Contact info |
TransitionsThis year, the department made five new faculty appointments. Trevor Arnold (Acting Assistant Professor), Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2006. Professor Arnold studies number theory and algebraic geometry. Emmanouil Milakis (Acting Assistant Professor, not pictured), Ph.D. University of Crete, 2006. Professor Milakis studies PDEs, free boundary problems, nonlinear analysis, mass transportation, and geometric measure theory. Ioana Dumitriu (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. M.I.T., 2003. Professor Dumitriu studies numerical analysis, random matrices, computing, and algorithmic game theory. Paul Hacking (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2001. Professor Hacking studies algebraic geometry. William Stein (Associate Professor), Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2000. Professor Stein studies number theory and computation. He arrived in Spring 2006.
Sándor Kovács and Dan Pollack were promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. Jennifer Taggart was promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer. Professor Bob Moore retired; he joined the department in 1968. |
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