Elias Menachem Stein, a Princeton University mathematician for more than 50 years, died on Dec. 23 from complications related to mantle cell lymphoma. He was 87.
Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, was a pioneer in the field of harmonic analysis, an area of…
Professor Weinan E will receive the 2019 Peter Henrici Prize at the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, July 15-19, 2019 in Valencia, Spain.
SIAM and ETH Zürich jointly award the Peter Henrici Prize to recognize original contributions to applied analysis…
June Huh, a visiting associate research scholar in mathematics at Princeton and a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, will receive a 2019 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.
Huh studies the geometry, topology and combinatorics of algebraic varieties. Huh shares the…
The Department annual teaching awards were announced at a special tea on Monday, October 15. This year's Junior Faculty Teaching Awards went to Assistant Professor Nicolas Boumal and Visiting Research Collaborator (and former Instructor) Evita Nestoridi, while the Graduate Student Teaching Award…
Professor Allan Sly has been named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow by the MacArthur Foundation. The foundation cites Professor Sly's work "applying probability theory to resolve long-standing problems in statistical physics and computer science".
The MacArthur Fellows program began in 1981 and…
Professor Sun-Yung Alice Chang was selected for the 2019 class of AWM Fellows by the Association for Women in Mathematics "for shattering the glass ceiling and inspiring women mathematicians to follow her lead; for her leadership of the Princeton mathematics department and her extraordinary…
Princeton alum David Donoho '78, Stanford's Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, was awarded the 2018 Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro for his fundamental contributions to the mathematical,…
Akshay Venkatesh was one of four recipients of the 2018 Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. Venkatesh, who completed his Ph.D. at Princeton in 2002 under the supervision of Peter Sarnak, was cited for his synthesis of analytic number theory,…
Professor Charles Fefferman received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Warwick at their summer graduate ceremonies July 17-25.
Professor Michael Aizenman was awarded the Henri Poincaré prize at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematical Physics in Montreal for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, and disordered systems in which he pioneered innovative techniques that demonstrate…
The Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) has named Professor Michael Aizenman its Aisenstadt Chair for its fall thematic semester on the mathematical challenges in many-body physics and quantum information. Professor Aizenman will deliver a series lectures at this program September 24, 25,…
Congratulations to the Mathematics concentrators who have been elected to
Phi Beta Kappa:
Dylan James Altschuler, Rodrigo Sanches Angelo, Enric Boix, Alexandre Perozim de Faveri, Jeffrey Kuan, Soonho Kwon, Jiahuang Lin, Jessica Shi, Roger Wolcott Van Peski, Joshua Xu Wang, …
In 1958 Edward L Kaplan *51 and Paul Meier *51 (both former students of John Tukey) published an innovative statistical method in the Journal of the American Statistical Association to estimate survival curves when including incomplete observations. The Kaplan–Meier (KM) method became the…
Peter Ozsváth, Professor of Mathematics, is one of 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Also elected from Princeton this year are Sanjeev Arora, Professor of Computer Science; Orley…
Low-dimensional topology and its interactions with symplectic geometry
June 20-22, 2018
Symplectic geometry and its interactions with low-dimensional topology
June 28-29, 2018
There will be two mini-conferences in conjunction with the 2018 Princeton RTG Geometry/…
Graduate student Ashvin Swaminathan received the 2018 Morgan Prize for "his exceptional research in algebraic geometry, number theory, and combinatorics, which has appeared in numerous well-regarded professional level journals" as an undergraduate at Harvard.
The AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and…
Professor Assaf Naor has been named the 2018 Frederic Esser Nemmers Mathematics Prize Recipient "for his profound work on the geometry of metric spaces, which has led to breakthroughs in the theory of algorithms".
The award announcement notes that "Naor has discovered structural…
Georgios Moschidis is one of four winners of this year’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students, along with Chantal Berman, Cole Bunzel and Matthew Edwards.
The fellowships support the students’ final year of study at Princeton and are…
INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE MATHEMATICS MAJORS
Why Major in Mathematics?
Mathematics is one of the most versatile majors at Princeton and students here have the opportunity to work with some of the best mathematicians in the world in a wide variety of fundamental areas of both…
By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications
Princeton junior Ryan Chen has been awarded a one-year Goldwater Scholarship, an annual award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Chen, a mathematics major from…
Robert P. Langlands has been awarded the 2018 Abel Prize for his work dating back to January 1967. He was then a 30-year-old associate professor at Princeton, working during the Christmas break. He wrote a 17-page letter to the great French mathematician André Weil, aged 60, outlining some of…
Mathematics Department instructor Hansheng Diao and graduate student Kathleen Emerson were awarded this year's Excellence in Teaching Award by the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils. This student-nominated award is for a professor or TA who "was especially dedicated, taught…
The 78th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, organized by the Mathematical Association of America, includes the Unites States and Canada. In 2017, 4,638 students from 575 institutions participated and spent two 3 hour sessions solving 12 problems.
Princeton University…
Wednesday, April 4
Taplin Auditorium
1:15-2:15pm Ian Jauslin (IAS)
2:30-3:30pm Rupert Frank (LMU Munich - Caltech)
4:30-5:30pm Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES)
Thursday, April 5
Jadwin A10
1:15-2:15pm Bruno Nachtergaele (UC Davis)
2:30-3:30pm Eric…
The Department is pleased to welcome Noga Alon as our newest professor, joint with the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics. A world leader in the field of combinatorics, Professor Alon's contributions include solutions to longstanding questions on universal graphs, epsilon-nets,…
Assistant Professor Javier Gómez Serrano was one of seven young mathematicians to receive the third annual Vicent Caselles Mathematical Research Award of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society. The award recognizes "creativity, originality and achievement in the early years of the scientific…
Technion University will present Professor Michael Aizenman with an honorary degree at a ceremony June 11, 2018.