When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...

Informally, a dynamic system is any physical system that evolves with time (e.g., a pendulum, a planet orbiting the sun, the weather, etc). From a more mathematically precise perspective, one can ...

Machine learning is revolutionizing fundamental science by tackling long-standing mathematical challenges. A key example is ...

Bryan Shader, a professor in UW’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is co-author of a research monograph titled “Inverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs.” The book, published by the ...

A particularly fascinating class of quantum states are topological states of matter. (Courtesy: IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch) Topological materials – materials that have surface properties very ...