Research Highlights
Prof. Alex Lupsasca appears in Discover magazine
Aug. 31, 2025—Alex Lupsasca, Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, was recently asked by Discover magazine to share his thoughts on wormholes: hypothetical structures that could bridge two points across space and time. In the article, he discusses their purely (at this point) theoretical nature, their potential resemblance to black holes, and their relation...
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Akram Aldroubi’s Research Cited in Industry Patents
Mar. 25, 2025—Prof. Akram Aldroubi is a world-renowned expert in harmonic analysis, functional analysis, and signal processing. While his research is classified as theoretical mathematics, his work has had far-reaching implications in industry. His papers are referenced in several industry-owned patents, indicating that his work has had significant impact on real-world applications and has influenced the development...
Prof. Osin publishes in Annals of Mathematics
Feb. 25, 2024—Prof. Denis Osin recently published a paper in Annals of Mathematics, widely considered the most prestigious journal in pure mathematics. The paper, “Wreath-like products of groups and their von Neumann algebras I: W*-superrigidity” was written with Adrian Ioana (UCSD), Ionut Chifan (U Iowa), and a former Vanderbilt Ph.D. student Bin Sun (Michigan State U). The...
Prof. Speck publishes research breakthrough on the big bang
Dec. 21, 2023—Prof. Jared Speck, along with Grigorios Fournodavlos (University of Crete) and Igor Rodnianski (Princeton University) recently published a breakthrough paper about the stability of the big bang theory. Their paper answers a 50-year-old conjecture made by physics. It was published in the highly-prestigious Journal of the American Mathematical Society, which is considered as one of...