The Department's annual teaching awards were announced at a special tea on Monday, October 10. This year's Junior Faculty Teaching Awards went to Assistant Professors Nicholas Sheridan and Vlad Vicol, and the Graduate Student Teaching Awards went to Charles Stibitz and Anibal Velozo.…
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During the 2016 Bernoulli World Congress in Toronto, Allan Sly was awarded the Doeblin Prize from the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. The Doeblin Prize "is awarded to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the…
At its June, 2016 graduate ceremony, the University of St. Andrews awarded Professor Peter Sarnak with an honorary degree. Professor Sarnak was one of nine distinguished recipients this year.
Professor Amit Singer has been named a National Finalist for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. The Blavatnik Family Foundation, with the guidance of the New York Academy of Sciences, founded the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2007 to celebrate the innovative achievements of young…
Assistant Professor Adam Marcus was awarded an NSF career grant, New Techniques for High Dimensional Systems. With this award, Marcus will work to develop a theory of ''finite free probability,'' a collection of ideas lying in the intersection of random matrix theory, convex…
Join Professor Manjul Bhargava *01 for a question and answer session after the 6:45 p.m. screening of The Man Who Knew Infinity at the Princeton Garden Theater, Friday, May 13. Professor Bhargava is an Associate Producer of the film, which opened in select cities on April 29 and begins its run…
Professor Peter Ozsváth *94 has been elected a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for his work in the topology of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds and his proof of the Thom conjecture with Professor Zoltán Szabó.
Yuliy Sannikov '00, a professor of economics who received is A.B. in mathematics at Princeton, has been awarded the 2016 John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association (AEA). The award recognizes an economist under age 40 who has made significant contributions to the field.…
Congratulations to Professor Kollár, who has been awarded the 2016 Frederic Esser Nemmers Mathematics Prize for "his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, including the minimal model program and its applications, the theory of rational connectedness and the study of real…
The results from the 2016 William Lowell Putnam competition are in, and we are proud to announce that Princeton's team of Rodrigo Angelo, Andre Arslan and Eric Schneider came in 3rd place.Individually, Senior Bumsoo Kim finished in the top 6, and Xiaoyu Xu was in the top 16. Andre Arslan…
The Mathematics Department has just been informed of the passing of Professor Emeritus John C. Moore, who died on January 1st at the age of 92. He was considered a leading figure in the areas of homotopy theory and homological algebra. Moore was born in Staten Island, New York, and received his…
Join Professor Bhargava *01 (Associate Producer), Devika Bhise (Actress), Matt Brown (Writer & Director), Ed Pressman (Producer), Betsy Rodger '95 (IFC Films), and Tristine Skyler '93 (Executive Producer) for a discussion on the life and work of Ramanujan and the making of The Man…
Congratulations to Professor Shou-Wu Zhang for being named a 2016 Simons Fellow in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation. The fellows programs provide funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations with the goal of increasing…
Congratulations to Sir Andrew J. Wiles, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, who has been awarded the 2016 Abel Prize "for his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new…
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently announced the list of 2016 Sloan Research Fellows. Among the 5 Princeton faculty selected is Assistant Professor Stefanos Aretakis.The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding…
The Mathematics Department is happy to announce that Daniel Spielman, Yale University Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics, will deliver the Spring 2016 Minerva Lectures. Professor Spielman will give three talks: Monday, March 21 at 4:30 pmWednesday,…
The Mathematics Department is pleased to announce Analysis, PDEs, and Geometry: A conference in honor of Sergiu Klainerman. For registration, schedules, and abstracts, please see the conference webpage.Dates:
January 26-29, 2016, Princeton University.
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