Mathematics permeates our lives. It’s there even when it escapes our comprehension. Anne Schilling discusses the predictive power of mathematics and her research on “Markov chains,” which are probability models that describe the sequence of events/states based on the past. It’s a concept that can be applied to a lot more than just your dresser drawer, including weather, voting procedures and quantum physics.

Mathematics and theatrics combine this April in Diving into Math with Emmy Noether, a play about the pioneering and influential mathematician who is often referred to as the “mother of modern algebra.” The play will be performed at the Wyatt Pavillion Theater on April 9 at 6 p.m. as part of portraittheater Vienna’s spring 2025 USA tour.

Among the 27 faculty members who won this year’s award, eight were from the College of Letters and Sciences.

A mathematics professor at the UC Davis College of Letters and Science recently received a prestigious honor from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The organizations named Professor Anne Schilling, chair of the Department of Mathematics, as the 2024 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer.