Andrew Majda, Professor Emeritus at the Courant Institute and a Professor at Princeton from 1984 to 1994, passed away March 12, 2021.
Majda received his PhD from Stanford University in 1973 under the supervision of Ralph S. Philips. Majda's recent work focused on stochastic statistical…
The Mathematics Department will be holding a Virtual Sophomore Open House on Friday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Mark McConnell, the Junior Advisor, will be speaking on Zoom, and will be joined by several current Math majors. If you need the Zoom link, please e-mail the Undergraduate…
Graduate students Ashvin Swaminathan and Mohan Swaminathan have been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Mohan was honored for teaching MAT 204 in Spring 2020 while Ashvin is…
Assistant Professor Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman is one of five Princeton faculty among 128 early career scholars named Sloan Research Fellows for 2021.
Sloan Research Fellows are selected on the basis of their independent research accomplishments, creativity and potential to become…
Former graduate students Maggie Miller *20 and Georgios Moschidis *18 have been named 2021 Clay Research Fellows. Four Clay Research Fellowships were awarded this year on the basis of exceptional quality of the candidates' research and their promise to become mathematical leaders.
Miller…
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.
Now in its fourth edition, The Probabilistic Method is an invaluable toolbox for both the beginner and the…
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 singularities of the minimal model program using K-stability.
The Cole Prize…
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.
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. The prize is awarded annually at the International Conference in Number Thsory at SASTRA…
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 2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries.
The prize is in recognition of…
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-standing problems in nodal geometry." This year's other recipients are Bhargav Bhatt *…
The department is pleased to announce the appointment of Chenyang Xu as a Professor of Mathematics. A leader in Algebraic Geometry with a focus on birational geometry, Professor Xu completed his PhD here at Princeton in 2008 under the supervision of Professor János Kollár. Xu was a CLE Moore…
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).
The citations notes his recent work, in collaboration with André Neves, developed a full Morse theory for…
Professor Noga Alon and his collaborators Phillip Gibbons of Carnegie Mellon University, Yossi Matias of Google and Tel Aviv University, and Mario Szegedy of Rutgers University are the recipients of the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for seminal work on the foundations of…
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, in recognition of excellent contributions in mathematics.”
Every four years…
Sophie Morel shares her story of discovering mathematics as a career while staying engaged with students and colleagues.
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.
John Conway was a professor at Princeton since 1987. He has been honored with numerous awards; he…
The Canadian Mathematical Society announced that Princeton Instructor Duncan Dauvergne is named the 2020 Doctoral Prize recipient. Dr. Dauvergne will present a prize lecture and receive his award at the CMS Winter meeting in Montreal, Québec, December 4-7, 2020.
The Doctoral Prize…
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 shares the prize with Gregory…
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.
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), which was Dyson’s academic home for more than 60 years,…
Assistant Professor Gabriele Di Cerbo was 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 material clearly, and simply deserves to be…
Congratulations to the following Princeton students who placed “Honorable Mention” in the 2019 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition:
Kiril Bangachev, Class of 2022 Jackson Blitz, Class of 2021 Fatih Kaleoglu, Class of 2020 Frank Lu, Class of 2023 Aleksa Milojevic, Class of…
Professor Alice Chang was elected as Foreign Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at its general meeting, February 12, 2020.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739 and is an independent non-governmental organisation, whose overall objective is to promote the…
Assistant Professor Aleksandr Logunov is one of three Princeton faculty among the 126 researchers to be named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow.
Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers, often seen as a marker of…
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.
Lin is one of 15 Churchill Scholarship winners this year who will spend a year studying at the University of…
First year graduate student Nina Zubrilina is the recipient of the 2020 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student for "her research in the areas of analysis and analytic number theory... characterized by her independent vision…
Professor Assaf Naor has been awarded the 2019 Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics in recognition of his pioneering achievements at the interface of the geometry of Banach spaces, the structure of metric spaces and algorithms.
The Ostrowski Prize was established by Alexander Markovich…
June Huh has appointed as the Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professor of Mathematics for the 2019-20 academic year. Huh was previously a Veblen Fellow in Mathematics at Princeton and is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Huh’s research focuses on geometry,…
The Department's annual teaching awards were announced at a special tea on Wednesday, October 16. This year the awards went to Assistant Professor Jonathan Hanselman and graduate students Colin Defant, Danny Nam, and David Villalobos Paz. The awards are given by the senior faculty and are based…
Assistant Professor Aleksandr Logunov has been awarded a 2019 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. This year’s class features 22 early-career scientists and engineers, who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.
The Packard Fellowships in Science…
Instructor Daniel Álvarez-Gavela was awarded the Vicent Castelles Prize at a ceremony October 3rd, 2019 by the BBVA Foundation and the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society..
The 2019 Vicent Caselles Mathematics Research Prize was given to six young researchers in the field of mathematics…
Professor Noga Alon and his co-authors Raphy Yuster and Uri Zwick will receive the 2019 Nerode Prize of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The Nerode Prize is given annually for a leading paper in the field of parameterized complexity.
Professor Allan Sly will receive the 2019 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability. The award will be presented at a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley, in early 2020.
The Prize commemorates Michel Loève, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley…
Alex Eskin *93, the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor, will receive the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the 'magic wand…
Professor Paul Seymour received the Commemorative Medal from Comenius University in Bratislava at a ceremony on August 27. "It is an honour for us to host the world's leaders in combinatorics in the 100th year of our university. Professor Seymour is a true inspiration among them and for those…
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tristan Buckmaster, Philip Isett *13 (now at Caltech) and former Assistant Professor Vlad Vicol (now at NYU) for their joint Clay Research Award in recognition of the profound contributions that each of them has made to the analysis of partial differential…
The Royal Society has announced that Peter Sarnak is one of 24 winners of its annual medals and awards for “scientists who have done exceptional, ground-breaking work,” said Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society.
The Sylvester Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding…
Class of 2019 Mathematics Majors:
Marius Ioan Bocanu
Samuel Preslier Marks Jonathan Douglas Chan Arthur Mateos Ryan Christopher Chen Dylan James Mavrides Christopher Criscitiello…
Please join the department and its alumni for our annual alumni reception, Friday, May 31 at 2:00pm in the Fine Hall Common Room. Short talks will be delivered by:
2:00 p.m. Introduction by Professor David Gabai *77,*80, Chair
2:05 Katja Vassilev (Class of…
Professor Noga Alon was one of 17 scientists to be nominated and elected as Honorary Members at the 191th General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Goro Shimura, Princeton’s Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, died on Friday, May 3, in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 89.
“Goro Shimura was a major research mathematician, creative and original and inspiring,” said Robert Gunning, a fellow math professor…
David Villalobos-Paz was among seven graduate students honored for excellence in teaching and service by the Graduate School.
“Villalobos-Paz is an example for all of us on how to teach mathematics well,” said János Kollár, the Donner Professor of Science and professor of mathematics. “…
Professor Manjul Bhargava was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society. Bhargava will be formally admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society at a ceremony on July 12, when he will sign the charter book in London.
The Royal Society was founded in the 1660s to promote “the…
Karen Uhlenbeck, Professor Emerita of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin and a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Princeton, will receive the 2019 Abel Prize “for her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for…
Assistant Professor Aleksandr Logunov has been awarded the 2018 Salem Prize for his work on the conjectures of Yau and Nadirashvili on the volumes of the zero sets of Laplacian eigenfunctions.
For the fourth consecutive year, instructor Hansheng Diao was awarded the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils' Excellence in Teaching Award. This student-nominated award is for a professor or TA who "was especially dedicated, taught the material clearly, and simply deserves…
Assistant Professor Francesco Lin has been selected to received a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. Lin is one of 10 current Princeton faculty members in the 2019 class of fellows. Other fellows in mathematics this year include Xiuyuan Cheng *13 (PACM), now at Duke University; Philip Isett *13,…