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Noga Alon to Receive 2021 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

The 2021 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition will be awarded to Noga Alon and Joel Spencer for their book, The Probabilistic Method, published by Wiley & Sons Inc. in 1992.

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Chenyang Xu Receives 2021 Cole Prize in Algebra

Professor Chenyang Xu will receive the 2021 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra for his contributions to the algebraic theory of moduli for K-stable Fano varieties and working out a radically new approach to the singu

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Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman and Boya Wen Receive Department Teaching Awards

Each year the Mathematics Department recognizes junior faculty and graduate students for outstanding undergraduate teaching. This year's recipients are assistant professor Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman and graduate student Boya Wen.

 

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Shai Evra Awarded 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

Instructor Shai Evra will receive the 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for outstanding contributions by individuals not exceeding the age of 32 in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan in a broad sense.

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Carolina Araujo *04 Awarded Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries

The International Centre for Theoretical Physics has awarded Carolina Araujo *04, a researcher at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the

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Aleksandr Logunov Receives New Horizons Prize

Assistant Professor Aleksandr Logunov is one of three recipients of the 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for his "novel techniques to study solutions to elliptic equations, and their application to long-standin

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Department Welcomes Chenyang Xu as Professor of Mathematics

The department is pleased to announce the appointment of Chenyang Xu as a Professor of Mathematics.

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Fernando Codá Marques Named 2020 Simons Investigator
Professor Fernando Codá Marques was named one of four 2020 Simons Investigators in Mathematics, along with Alexei Borodin (MIT), Ciprian Manolescu (Stanford), and Zhiwei Yun (MIT).
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Noga Alon Receives ACM Kanellakis Award

Professor Noga Alon and his collaborators Phillip Gibbons of Carnegie Mellon University,

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Aleksandr Logunov Awarded EMS Young Researcher Prize

Assistant Professor Aleksandr Logunov is a recipient of the one of the 10 European Mathematical Society Prizes awarded “to young researchers not older than 35 years, of European nationality or working in Europe,

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Researcher Profile: Sophie Morel

Sophie Morel shares her story of discovering mathematics as a career while staying engaged with students and colleagues.

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John H. Conway, 1937–2020

We regret to announce that John Conway, the John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, died April 11.  He was 82.   

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Duncan Dauvergne named 2020 recipient of the CMS Doctoral Prize
The Canadian Mathematical Society announced that Princeton Instructor Duncan Dauvergne is named the 2020 Doctoral Prize recipient.
Hillel Furstenberg
Hillel Furstenberg, a graduate student *58 of Salomon Bochner at Princeton, shared the 2020 Abel Prize with Gregory Margulis.

Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a *58 graduate student of Salomon Bochner at Princeton, will receive the 2020 Abel Prize “for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.”  He sha

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Freeman Dyson, 1923–2020

Freeman J. Dyson, theoretical physicist and writer, who embraced the stunning diversity of the universe with unique spirit died on February 28, 2020 in Princeton, NJ at the age of 96.

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Gabriele Di Cerbo Recives Excellence in Teaching Award
Assistant Professor Gabriele Di Cerbo was awarded this year's Excellence in Teaching Award by the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils.
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Seven Princeton Students Recieve Honorable Mention in Putnam Competition
Kiril Bangachev, Jackson Blitz, Fatih Kaleoglu, Frank Lu, Aleksa Milojevic, Seyoon Ragavan, and Alan Yan
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Alice Chang Elected as Foreign Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Professor Alice Chang was elected as Foreign Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at its 2020 general meeting.
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Aleksandr Logunov Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow
Assistant Professor Aleksandr Logunov is one of three Princeton faculty among the 126 researchers to be named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow.
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Alice Lin '20 Awarded Churchill Scholarship and Honorable Mention of AWM Schafer Prize
Senior math major Alice Lin has been selected as one of this year's Churchill Scholars and has been selected as an Honorable Mention of the 2020 AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize.