D-MATH News
Ten teaching assistants receive 2025 VMP Assistant Award
The Association of Mathematics, Physics and CSE Students (VMP) has honoured ten student teaching assistants from the Departments of Mathematics and Physics with the VMP Assistant Award. The winners were selected by the VMP board based on feedback from the participating maths and physics students.
A mathematics competition by students for students
ETH Zurich hosted the Imperial-Cambridge Mathematics Competition (ICMC) for the first time. The competition takes place every year at the end of November concurrently at universities across Europe.
Yilin Wang: inaugural lecture
On 25 November, Yilin Wang gave her inaugural lecture entitled: "Geometry of Surfaces through the lens of Probability". She has been Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Department since 1 July 2025.
Sarah Zerbes awarded the 2025 Golden Owl
We are delighted to announce that the VSETH and VMP student associations have chosen to award the 2025 Golden Owl to Professor Sarah Zerbes. In this interview, she talks about what she does to ignite a passion for mathematics in her students and how she makes learning an interactive, experimental process.
Discovering unexpected connections
In her work, Yilin Wang combines various subfields of mathematics and searches for simple, elegant solutions to problems. The ETH professor is motivated in her research by curiosity and an appreciation for the beauty of mathematics.