Maryam Mirzakhani, a Princeton faculty member from 2004 through 2008 and the first woman to win a Fields Medal, died on Friday, July 14, of breast cancer.Professor Mirzakhani received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2004, and was then hired as an assistant professor at Princeton University…
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Sir Andrew Wiles, Princeton's James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford was awarded the 2017 Copley Prize by the Royal Society.First awarded in 1731, the Copley Medal is the Royal Society…
Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776, has had a Princeton chapter since 1898. Membership is based on general academic performance throughout the college course; normally about a tenth of a class is elected. The society takes its name from the initials of its…
Professor János Kollár has been awarded the 2017 Shaw Prize in mathematics. Professor Kollár shares this year's prize with Clair Voisin, professor at the Collège de France, for their "remarkable results in many central areas of algebraic geometry, which have transformed the field and led to the…
Anibal Velozo, a fourth year graduate student, was one of ten recipients of the 2017 Graduate School Teaching Award. Anibal has also shared this year's departmental graduate student teaching award with Charles Stibitz.About the award:
Every year the Graduate School presents graduate…Professor John Pardon has received a National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, which is the nation's highest honor for scientists and engineers younger than 35. The prize carries a five-year, $1 million grant.Pardon was recognized for "revolutionary, groundbreaking results in…
Our Annual Department Spring Recital will be held on Thursday, April 20, 5:30–7:30 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium (w/brief intermission). We have a wonderful program this year. Come out and celebrate spring and the end of the academic year! And, as always, there will be a Reception following in the…
Professors Michael Aizenman and Manjul Bhargava *01, along with five other Princeton faculty members, have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year. They are among 228 leaders in scholarship, business, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition…
Good news from this year's Putnam Competition!Princeton's team of Eric Schneider, Alex Song and Xiaoyu Xu won 2nd place.
Eric Schneider and Murilo Zanarella earned N1 distinction (6th-14th place) and sophomore Simona Diaconu won the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize as highest…It is with deep regret that we must report the death of Gerard Washnitzer, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, who died on April 2, 2017. Professor Washnitzer did his doctoral work at Princeton under Salomon Bochner, receiving his Ph.D. in 1950. After appointments at MIT and Johns Hopkins…
Sophomore Open HouseThursday, April 6, 20173:30 – 4:30 p.m.Fine Hall Common Room (3rd Floor)
Meet faculty members and instructors
Learn more about the Mathematics Department
Talk with math majors – discover what the undergraduate math experience is all about
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Mathematics Department members Hansheng Diao and Christine Taylor were awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils on March 2, 2017. This student-nominated award is for a professor or TA who "was especially dedicated, taught the…
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently announced the list of 2017 Sloan Research Fellows, which includes seven Princeton faculty members. Receiving fellowships in mathematics are Assistant Professors Nicholas Sheridan and Han Liu, an Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Financial…
Professor Michael Aizenman has been elected as a foreign member of Academia Europaea.The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of…
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Vlad Vicol for being awarded an NSF Career grant. With this five year grant Dr. Vicol will study "nonlinear stability mechanisms and boundary layer singularities in fluid flows."The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation…
Professor John N. Mather passed away Saturday, January 28th at his home in Princeton.Professor Mather completed his doctorate at Princeton in 1967 under the supervision of John Milnor, and held positions at IHES and Harvard University before returning to Princeton as a professor in 1975, a…
Congratulations to Professor Fefferman *69, who has been awarded a 2017 Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his work in a number of areas, including complex multivariate analysis, partial differential equations and sub-elliptical problems. He shares this prize with Richard Schoen of the University of…
The Indian Academy of Sciences has elected Professor Manjul Bhargava *01 as an honorary fellow.The Indian Academy of Sciences was founded and registered as a society in 1934 with the aim of promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science, in both pure and applied branches. It strives…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Sponsors:
…Wednesday, December 16, 2015:10 am: Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Title TBA
11:10 am: Peter Sarnak (Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study) - Title TBA
2 pm: Charles…Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves (Imperial College London and Princeton faculty member from 2005-2009) will receive the 2016 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. They are honored for "their remarkable work on variational problems in differential geometry [including] the proof of the…
Professors Alice Chang, Mihalis Dafermos, and Shou-wu Zhang have been named fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2016.Chang was sited for her "contributions to geometric analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations, and harmonic analysis;" Dafermos for his work in…
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT SPECIAL PROGRAMDear Math Seniors & Juniors,
Have you been thinking about THE NEXT STEP – applying to graduate school or working in the industry?
Professor Paul Yang is hosting a special session:
- Professor Ozsvath will speak about the…Lectures on John Nash’s work by:Mikhail Gromov Eric MaskinSergiu KlainermanJános KollárPublic Lecture by:Sylvia Nasar
Each year the Mathematics Department recognizes junior faculty and graduate students for exceptional undergraduate teaching. A major component of the selection criteria is based on teaching evaluations from their students.This year's Junior Faculty Teaching Awards were given to Javier Gómez…
The Ramanujan Prize was established in 2005 to recognize outstanding work by young mathematicians in fields related to the work of the late Srinivasa Ramanujan -- the age limit for the prize is 32. Tsimerman is recognized for his work on the Andre-Oort Conjecture and for his mastery of both…
We invite all students who wish to participate in this mathematical exam competition to register via email - larushin@princeton.eduFor those interested in practicing their problem solving, we are working on weekly practice sessions and will have more info shortly.
An information meeting…Congratulations to Professor Manjul Bhargava *01, who has been awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Bates College and the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras. Bates conferred the degree on May 31, 2015, when Professor Bhargava delivered their 2015 commencement address. The Indian…