Recent News
The Department held its Dessert Competition in the Lewis Hall Lounge on Friday, February 9, 2024! This is an annual event, going on for almost 20 years now: each year everyone competes to see who can create the best dessert, with different award categories. These categories included best overall, taste, presentation, alternative (vegan or gluten free). Prizes include cookbooks, serving ware, baking and cooking tools, and more. A dedicated panel of judges sacrificed their New Year resolutions… Read more
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute invites you to a free film screening of "Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience", a film by George Csicsery on Thursday, February 15, 2024 in Kane Hall, Room 110.
6:00-7:00pm - Film Screening
7:00-7:30pm - Director Q&A with George Csicsery
7:30-8:30pm - Reception (Walker-Ames Room)
Hosted by the UW Departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics & Statistics.… Read more
Congratulations to Sayako Mitchell on her selection as a Junior Medalist for High Scholarship for 2022-23. The award celebrates top undergraduate students by recognizing outstanding academic record. Medalists are selected by a committee for their high… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: Making Black Girls Count in Math Education: A Black Feminist Vision of Transformative Teaching
Abstract: Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge… Read more
We are currently accepting nominations for the annual Frederic & Julia Wan Lecturer Series, as advertised in the December 2023 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: Computational Hypergraph Discovery, a framework for connecting the dots
Abstract: Function approximation can be categorized into three levels of complexity. Type 1: Approximate an unknown function given (possibly… Read more
AMATH had a special guest during Tea Time yesterday - Dubs! After keeping his appearance secret for months, students, faculty, and staff were pleasantly surprised and eagerly awaited their opportunity meet, and have their picture taken with UW's mascot.
Dubs was also a good sport when he met AMATH's own "mascot" Barkimedes. Feel free to look at our… Read more
By Bernard DeconinckSeptember 30, 2023
Eight years and counting. Has there been a “normal” year in my time as chair? We’ve had a pandemic, an earthquake retrofit (including moving everyone out), a 50th anniversary for the department, and many more events and incidents, some good, some bad. This past year served up a fire in Lewis Hall! It is probably not an exaggeration to say that if (now full) Professor Matt Lorig had not had early-morning online office hours from Lewis… Read more
Michael I. Jordan: An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.
Title: An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single, autonomous agent.… Read more
By Kyle Sledge
It was fall 2017; the leaves were changing colors, and I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of unfinished business. A few months prior, I successfully passed the third and final exam of the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation, after multiple years of intense self-study. Earning the right to use the CFA credential was a significant career milestone that paired well with my on-the-job training as a bank examiner with a regulatory agency. With this… Read more