William (aka Bill, “Wild Bill”) James LaubenheimerAugust 19, 1956 – July 19, 2023 Bill grew up in Milwaukee, WI, graduated from Carroll College at age 19, and attended UW Madison where he received double major master degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1979. While at Madison, he developed tight friendships over the bridge table. …
Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind it go to two others — died on Aug. 3 at his home in Woodbury, N.Y. He was 86. Since …
Ted Frost (Ph.D., 1969, Wainger) wrote in 2017, “In my earlier years of graduate work, I expended some of my energy by inventing walking along the outside of Van Vleck Hall on the 7th floor, window to window. I heard some fellow duplicated that trick some years later.” (Editor: The windows are now secured against …
Douglas McLeod (Ph.D., 1972, Harvey, M.A., 1965) provided this picture of a 1964 Summer Institute for faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to refresh their skills. This was TA’ed and staffed by various Math Department faculty and graduate students (including him). It was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. It was …