Congratulations to Professor Duong Phong on his appointment as Davies Chair of Mathematics.

Previous holders of the Davies Chair include Lipman Bers, Masatake Kuranishi, and Richard Hamilton.

Professor Phong joined Columbia in 1978. He has made fundamental contributions to many areas of mathematics, including harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, complex differential geometry, and mathematical physics. His contributions include his work with Charles Fefferman on subelliptic operators; his work with Elias Stein on singular integrals and Radon transforms; and his recent work on a-priori estimates for the complex Monge-Ampère equation.

Professor Phong has received many awards and distinctions for his work, including the André Aisenstadt Chair of the Université de Montréal (2000), the Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society (2009), and the Frontiers of Science Award (2024). He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013) and the United States National Academy of Sciences (2024).

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A memorial for Professor Richard Streit Hamilton will be held on Sunday, September 28th. Please complete this form to attend by 9/14. Find the schedule of events for “Remembering the Life and Work of Richard Streit Hamilton” here.

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Congratulations to alum Juan Muñoz Echániz (’23) for being awarded the 2025 Vicent Caselles Prize by the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society and the BBVA Foundation for his work at the intersection of gauge theory, low-dimensional topology and contact geometry. The award recognizes “creativity, originality and achievement in the early years of the scientific profession”, and is conferred each year to six Spanish mathematicians under 30 years old.

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Congratulations to Prof. George Dragomir for being recognized with the 2025 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by Faculty; the award will be conferred by President Shipman at University Commencement on Wednesday, May 21.

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Please join us in congratulating Prof. Michael Harris on being inducted into the American Philosophical Society as a new member.

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Please join us in congratulating Prof. Ioannis Karatzas on being honored with a Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for profound contributions through his lifetime of teaching and research in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, his field-defining scholarship in the area of Probability Theory and its applications, his keen ability to make complex concepts accessible and inspiring to his students, and his patience, dedication, and care as a mentor, instructor, and colleague.

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Title: Renormalization, fractal geometry and the Newhouse phenomenon

Speaker: Artur Avila (IMPA)

Date, Time, Location: Wednesday, April 23rd @4:30PM – 5:30PM in Math Hall 520

Abstract:

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The Lars Tyge Nielsen Memorial Conference is on April 25th from 1-7PM. This is a day to honor our late director of the MAFN program Lars Tyge Nielsen. The Memorial Conference will be held at the Innovation Hub of Columbia Engineering (2276 12th Ave, New York, NY 10027) on April 25th, 2025. Register Here.

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