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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Weinstein!

Congratulations to Professor Weinstein who was selected as the 2018 Martin Kruskal Prize Lecturer. The prize will be awarded by the SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (SIAG/NWCS) at their meeting in June 2018(More…).

Wei Zhang awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

“Recognizing the Achievements of Early-Career Physicists and Mathematicians”

Simon Brendle awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize

“Results of researches accessible to the greatest number of professional mathematicians in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive (Statements of variational principles,  Foundations of probability and analytic geometry, Number theory)” More…

CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Abouzaid!

Sixty three Mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2018, the program’s sixth year and on November 1, 2017 Professor Mohammed Abouzaid was selected as one of the new AMS Fellows for 2018(MORE).

Welcome and Congratulations to the 2017 Cohort of Graduate Students!

Welcome new students! (more)

Profs. Andrei Okounkov and Wei Zhang to speak at 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians

Profs. Okounkov and Zhang to deliver talks at the 2018 ICM in Brazil. (more)

Simon Brendle selected as a 2017 Simons Investigator

Congratulations to Prof. Simon Brendle, who was recently selected as a 2017 Simons Investigator! (more)

Prof. Mohammed Abouzaid awarded 2017 New Horizons Prize

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

Joseph L. Birman 1927-2016

The Mathematics department offers our condolences to professor emerita Joan Birman, on the loss of her husband of 66 years, Joseph Birman, who passed away on October 1. Joseph Birman was a Distinguished Professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, and known for his work on human rights (the Committee of […]

Prof. Emerita Joan Birman elected as Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society

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