News: Mathematics

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Accolades

Three Faculty Members Awarded Sloan Fellowships

Congratulations to Greg Durrett, Sam Raskin and Hang Ren.

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Research

Seven Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Learn about faculty members from UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences who have been awarded CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation.

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Features

Visualizing Science 2022: Illuminating the Intrinsic Beauty in Academic Research

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star...

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Accolades

Maggie Miller Receives Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

UT Austin alumna Maggie Miller, whose research focuses on geometric topology in three to five dimensions, was awarded a prize recognizing women in mathematics.

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Oden Institute News

Rachel Ward Receives NSF TRIPODS Phase 2 Award for Data Science Research

Professor Rachel Ward has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science, or TRIPODS, Phase II.

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Research

Getting Math and Physics on the Same Page

Mathematicians are working to bring quantum field theory (QFT) into mainstream mathematics.

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Announcements

CNS Welcomes 16 New Faculty Members

See the new faces around the College of Natural Sciences.

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Features

Graduating Senior Finds Passions in Exoplanets and Outreach

Zoe de Beurs wasn't sure what she wanted to do when she first arrived at UT Austin, but after graduating, she started a Ph.D. in...

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