Congratulations to Prof. Mohammed Abouzaid, who was recently announced as a recipient of the 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.

The 5th annual New Horizons prize recognizes “promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work in mathematics”. More information on the Prize and an official press release can be found here:

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/34

A recorded broadcast of the prize ceremony will air Sunday, December 18 at 7pm EST/PST on FOX.

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Welcome to the 2016 cohort of graduate students! A list of our new phd students can be found at:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/programs-math/graduate-program/incoming-class/

As a reminder, fall classes begin Tuesday, September 6.

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Please congratulate Prof. Joan Birman, who was recently elected as an Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society!

According to the London Mathematical Society website:

“Each year, the Council of the Society considers the election of Honorary Members of the Society from amongst distinguished mathematicians who are not normally resident within the United Kingdom.  The election of Honorary Members is made by Council, subject to confirmation by the Society at an Ordinary Meeting.”

As one of the members of the 2015 Honorary Membership recipients, Prof. Birman’s selection was announced in a recent publication of the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. The full announcement is available here: http://blms.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/28/blms.bdw014#

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Congratulations to Professor Wei Zhang, who won the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics at the 7th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) in Beijing on August 6, 2016 for his original contributions to number theory and automorphic forms. At most two Morningside Gold Medals are awarded to outstanding mathematicians of Chinese descent at the ICCM every three years.

For more information, please visit:

http://iccm.mcm.ac.cn/dct/page/70015

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Please congratulate Prof. Andrei Okounkov, who was recently elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!

Prof. Okounkov joins a distinguished list of scholars and thinkers from a variety of fields and disciplines. As posted on the Academy’s website:

“The Academy membership encompasses over 4,600 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members and reflects the full range of disciplines and professions: mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, the social sciences and humanities, business, government, public affairs, and the arts. Among the Academy’s Fellows are more than 250 Nobel laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.”

For a complete list of the 2016 members, including Prof. Okounkov, please visit:

https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c

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Applications are now open for the annual Undergraduate Summer Research Program. For information on the program, including a link to the application materials, please visit the REU website. All continuing Columbia/Barnard undergraduates are eligible to apply.

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Welcome to the 2015 cohort of graduate students! A list of our new phd students can be found at:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/programs-math/graduate-program/incoming-class/

As a reminder, fall classes begin Tuesday, September 8.

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Jennifer Hom, an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department, was recently selected as a recipient for the prestigious Sloan Fellowship award. From the Sloan Research Fellowship website:

“The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.”

For more information on the fellowships, and for a complete list of recent winners, visit:

http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/

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Congratulations to Prof. Andrei Okounkov for being selected as a Simons Investigator under the Simons Foundation Investigators Program (2014).

Simon Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists who receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation. This supports the scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing creative new research directions, providing leadership to the field, and effectively mentoring junior scientists. For more information about the Simons Foundation and this award, visit their webpage.

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