Congratulations to Maria Chudnovsky, one of the winners of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals for their creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future.

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Congratulations to Andre Carneiro, winner of the Departmental Prize for Excellence as a Teaching Fellow.  This is a new prize created by the Department to encourage and reward outstanding work by teaching fellows and graduate student instructors.

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Congratulations to Daniela De Silva for receiving the Gladys Brooks Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.

This award, established at Barnard in 1989 by the Gladys Brooks Foundation, is bestowed annually to recognize considerable individual achievements of tenure-track/tenure-eligible assistant professors at Barnard.

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Ovidiu Savin has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Stampacchia Gold Medal.

The Stampacchia Gold Medal is an international prize awarded every three years by the Italian Mathematical Union in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Variational Analysis and its applications by a mathematician under the age of 35.

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Please join us in congratulating Prof. Andrei Okounkov on his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences!

For more information, visit the NAS press release:
http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/

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The incoming graduate class for 2012 has been announced. For a list of the new students, please visit the Incoming class page.

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Congratulations to Connor Mooney, winner of a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

About this award (from the NSF website):
“The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity.  The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.”

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Congratulations to Barnard College Professor Joan Birman, who is elected to the The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. For a press release and complete list of new members, please visit:

http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleaseContent.aspx?i=167

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The spring 2012 Ritt Lectures, by Prof. Pierre Colmez, will take place April 19 & 20. Prof. Colmez (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), will deliver a two talk series titled:

“p-adic analysis and Galois representations”

Abstract: Ever since Wiles’s proof of (sufficiently many cases of) Taniyama-Weil’s conjecture lead-ing to a proof of Fermat’s last theorem, p-adic methods have proven to be very useful for the understanding of representations of the absolute Galois group of Q and the complex L-functions attached to them. I will summarize classical results in p-adic analysis (they are very similar to the theory of Fourier series), explain how they enter in the study of p-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of Qp, and show how this has paved the way to the proof of most cases of Fontaine-Mazur’s conjecture in dimension 2 (a vast generaliza-tion of Taniyama-Weil’s conjecture).

Thursday, April 19
5:30pm

Friday, April 20
3:30pm

Both lectures will be held in room 312 Mathematics Hall. For the lecture poster, visit:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~staff/Ritt-Spring-2012.pdf

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The spring 2012 iteration of the Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Tom Bridgeland (All Souls College, Oxford) on Monday, April 23rd. Prof. Bridgeland will give the following lecture:

“Tilting in Calabi-Yau Categories”

Abstract: Tilting is a fundamental operation in homological algebra, with a variety of applications in both algebra and geometry. After explaining the general idea, I will focus on two examples. The first involves birational transformations of threefolds; here the tilting concept has recently led to explicit formulae describing the way Donaldson-Thomas invariants change under flops. The second example involves triangulations of surfaces and quiver mutation.

Monday, April 23rd at 4:30 pm
Julius S. Held Lecture Hall – 304 Barnard Hall
Barnard College, 3009 Broadway at 117th Street

Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in 508 Mathematics Hall
2990 Broadway at 117th Street

For lecture details via our promotional flyer, please visit:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~staff/Kolchin-Spring-2012.pdf

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