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The 2025 American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named Christopher Skinner one of seven newly elected members honored in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 15, 2025, their appointment of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows.

Professor Peter Constantin elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, EurASc, in their Mathematics Division. 

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences awards this prestigious honor every five years to the author of the

William Browder, Professor Emeritus, passed away in early February.  He was 91 years old.

The Clay Mathematics Institute announced that Ryan Chen '19 and Anna Skorobogatova *24  have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships.

Melanie Matchett Wood of Harvard University, who earned her Ph.D.at Princeton in 2009, is among six current Princetonians and at least 14 researchers affiliated with the University to receive the

Ingrid Daubechies, Professor Emeritus, is one of the five Princetonian recipients honored with the 2025

Naomi Sweeting, Postdoctoral Fellow, along with Yvonne Alama Bronsard and Agustina Czenky, received the ninth annual Association for Women in Mathematics Dissertation prize, which was presented at the Joint Prize Session at the 2025 Joint Mathematic

Professor Noga Alon has received the 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics “for pioneering contributions to mathematical cryptography, combinatorics, and the theory of computer science.” He shares the prize with Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel

Professor Peter Sarnak has been awarded the 2024 Shaw Prize in mathematics for his "development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry and spectral theory."

The program's goal is to allow students to explore contemporary mathematics, either as a topic for its own sake or to gain a deeper knowledge of a specific area most relevant to the student's work in their major field of concentration.

The Mathematics Department will hold a Sophomore Open House on Tuesday, March 19 at 3:00 PM in the Fine Hall Common Room (3rd Floor). Refreshments will be served.  

Ryan Unger, along with José de Jesús Montaño López, Geneva Smith, and Pasquale Toscano, have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.

The 84th Annual Putnam Competition was held on December 2, 2023. Atharva Pathak ’26 and the Princeton University team both received an honorable mention this year. The team members were Benjamin Lemkin ‘26, Austen Mazenko ‘24, and Atharva Pathak ’26. 

Assistant Professor Ian Zemke is one of five Princeton faculty among 126 early career scholars named Sloan Research Fellows for 2024.

Professor Emeritus Elliot Lieb is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Kyoto Prize. Lieb won the mathematical sciences category, for “Pioneering mathematical research in physics, chemistry

Professor Bhargav Bhatt has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2023 by the Infosys Science Foundation in Bangalore, India, for "Outstanding contributions to arithmetic geometry and comm

Professor Maria Chudnovsky has been named one of forty 2024 AMS Fellows for "Outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics."

Professor Peter Sarnak has been awarded the 2023 Stockholm University Honorary Doctorate along with Jim Albrecht, Ian Brooks, Richard Dyer, Jan Ellenberg, J

Professor Emeritus Joseph Kohn passed away Tuesday, September 13.  He was 91 years old. 

The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching to Agustín Fuentes, professor of anthropology, and Zoltán Szabó, professor of mathematics

Aleksa Milojević, a mathematics major from Belgrade, Serbia, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2023.

Professor and Department Chair Igor Rodnianski will receive the 2023 Clay Research Award, joint with Frank Merle (IHES, Paris), Pierre Raphaël (University of Cambridge), and Jérémie Szeftel (Sorbonne Université

Veblen Research Instructor Paul Minter has been named a 2023 Clay Research Fellow. Huy Tuan Pham, a PhD student at Stanford University also received a Clay Research Fellowship this year.

Joye Chen, class of '23, received honorable mention from the 2023 Alice T. Schafer Prize, awarded by the Association for Women and Mathematics and named for Alice T.

Paul Seymour was elected as a Fellow of the

The Horizons Lectures consists of two events, a research colloquium as well as a seminar discussion on the societal impacts of the mathematics profession with the following goals:

Professor Amit Singer is one of 26 esteemed-professionals to be named as a 2022 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The 82nd Annual Putnam Competition was held on December 4, 2021. This year, Princeton University placed second in the team competition. The members of the team were Minjae Kwon '25, Frank Lu '23, and Aleksa Milojevic '23.

Amitesh Datta has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Dennis Sullivan *66, distinguished professor at Stony Brook, will receive the 2022 Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of

Professor Charles Fefferman will share the BBVA

Professor Emeritus Elliott Lieb was awarded the 2021 Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics, or ESI, and will receive the 2022 American Physical Society (APS) Medal for Exceptional