Leonid Polterovich to visit next quarter
Leonid Polterovich will be visiting the department again, from January 11 to February 19. More details to come.
View ArticleCarlos Kenig receives honorary doctorate
We are very happy to congratulate Carlos Kenig on his receiving an honorary doctorate from L'université de Cergy-Pontoise in Paris.
View ArticleAmie Wilkinson and Alex Eskin to present at the Joint Meetings
If you are at the JMM in Seattle, make sure to go to Amie Wilkinson's talk What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting?, and to Alex Eskin's plenary talk The \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\)...
View ArticleAsilata Bapat, Max Engelstein receive department awards
We are very happy to announce that the 2016 Kowalsky prize is awarded to Asilata Bapat, and the 2016 Wirszup prize is awarded to Max Engelstein. Follow the link for more about these outstanding...
View ArticleUniversity partners with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
There is a 5-month graduate student fellowship opportunity for UChicago graduate students at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania...
View ArticleCarlos Kenig receives honorary doctorate
We are very happy to congratulate Carlos Kenig on receiving an honorary doctorate from University of the Basque Country this coming March 4th.
View ArticleVladimir Drinfeld elected to the National Academy of Sciences
We are very happy to congratulate Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics, on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
View ArticleHistory of the Mathematics Department, 1890-2015
Explore the history of the department through this online exhibit, which was created as a part of the recent celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the university.
View ArticleSarah Ziesler receives the Quantrell Teaching Award
We are happy to congratulate Sarah Ziesler for being awarded the Quantrell teaching award. This is the most prestigious recognition of teaching awarded by the College to those who teach undergraduates....
View ArticleGraduate students win Harper Fellowships
Congratulations to Sean Howe and Zhouli Xu who have received the prestigious Harper Fellowship that recognizes the excellent work they have already done and (morally!) supports the research that will...
View ArticleGraduate students win Graves Prize and PSCD Prize for Teaching
We are happy to announce the 2016 Graves Prize, given by the Mathematics department, for excellent teaching by graduate students to Tori Akin, Weiyan Chen, and Jeffrey Manning. Congratulations, also,...
View ArticleUndergraduate winners of the 2016 Cohen Prize Announced
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Cohen Prize for the graduating seniors who have achieved the best records in mathematics: Jackson Hance, Yuzhou "Joey" Zou, Sarah Isabel McConnell, Jiayu...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Jim Douglas has passed away
We were saddened to hear that Jim Douglas, an emeritus member of our department, passed away during this past Spring quarter. Jim was an excellent applied mathematician, who started his career working...
View ArticleCongratulations to our International Mathematical Competition team!
We are pleased to congratulate our team of John Halliday, Naomi Sweeting, Yuzhou Zou, and Brian Burns who took part in the International Mathematical Competition in Bulgaria this summer. Our team came...
View ArticleCarlos Kenig to give Colloquium Lectures at the 2017 JMM
Professor Kenig will be giving three lectures on the topic of "The Focusing Energy Critical Wave Equation", an important special case of one of the grand challenges in PDE, the soliton resolution...
View ArticleProfessor Emeritus Felix Browder has passed away
We were saddened to hear that Felix Browder passed away last night. He was a member of our department from 1963 to 1986, chair from 1971 to 1976 and again from 1979 to 1985.
View ArticleNew Ph.D. program in Computational and Applied Mathematics
The University of Chicago has recently approved a new degree-granting Ph.D. program in Computational and Applied Mathematics. The program will be jointly administered by faculty in a number of...
View ArticleProfessor Laci Babai wins three ACM SIGACT awards
Laci Babai received three ACM SIGACT awards last summer: the STOC Best Paper award, the ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize, and the Edsger Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.
View Article2017 Wirszup Fellows
We are happy to announce this year's Wirszup fellows: Casey Rodriguez and Jonathan Wang. The Wirszup fellowship was established in 2012 in memory of Izaak Wirszup, a beloved member of our department...
View ArticleBertram Kostant, PhD '54, has passed away
We were saddened to hear of the the passing of our distinguished alumnus, Bertram Kostant. Kostant received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1954, and spent most of his career at MIT. His...
View ArticleClaudio Gonzales and Dylan Quintana win teaching awards
Congratulations to Claudio Gonzales and Dylan Quintana for receiving two of the three Physical Sciences teaching awards given out annually by the physical sciences division for excellence in...
View ArticleJian Ding has received the 2017 Rollo Davidson Prize
Congratulations to Jian Ding, who, with his collaborator Nike Sun, has won the 2017 Rollo Davidson Prize in Probability Theory. For more information, please see the link below.
View ArticleConference on representation theory and algebraic geometry coming in August
We will be hosting a conference "Interactions between representation theory and algebraic geometry" this summer, August 21-25. For more information, see the link below.
View ArticleSasha Beilinson elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Sasha Beilinson on being elected to the NAS! Follow the link below for more details.
View ArticleClark Butler wins the William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Clark Butler who has been awarded the William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship. This is one of the University's highest honors, given in recognition of achievement and promise.
View ArticleWilhelm Schlag appointed Homer J. Livingston Professor of Mathematics
Congratulations to Wilhelm Schlag, who has been appointed the Homer J. Livingston Professor of Mathematics effective this July. He will also be on leave as a visiting professor at the Institute for...
View ArticleUChicago Mathematics at ICM 2018 in Rio de Janeiro
Next summer three members of our department will be giving lectures at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio. Greg Lawler will be giving a plenary address, Laci Babai will be speaking in...
View ArticleTakis Souganidis presenting at ICIAM 2019
Takis Souganidis will be giving one of the main lectures at ICIAM 2019. ICIAM is the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
View ArticleFaculty at upcoming FOCM meeting
At this summer's triennial FOCM (Foundations of Computational Mathematics) meeting in Barcelona, Lek Heng Lim from Statistics will be receiving the Smale Prize and giving a plenary lecture. Shmuel...
View ArticleGerd Faltings and Craig Evans to give lecture series next year
Gerd Faltings will be giving the Albert lectures on Arakelov theory in November, and Craig Evans will be giving the Amick lectures March 6-8, 2018.
View ArticleShmuel Weinberger to give invited lecture at 2017 Mathematical Congress of...
Shmuel Weinberger will be giving an invited lecture at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas in Montreal this July.
View ArticleMaryanthe Malliaris wins the Hausdorff Medal
We are happy to congratulate Maryanthe Malliaris and her collaborator, Saharon Shelah of the Hebrew University, on receiving the Hausdorff medal of the European Set Theory Society for their important...
View ArticleProfessor Wilkinson in the New York Times about Marina Ratner and Maryam...
The mathematical world in general, and we, in particular, have suffered two great losses this year with the deaths of Marina Ratner and of Maryam Mirzakhani. Amie Wilkinson has shared some of her...
View ArticleMore work of UChicago mathematicians featured in Quanta!
The work of our current and former colleagues Alex Wright, Ronen Mukamel, Alex Eskin (with their collaborator Curt McMullen) has been featured in a recent article on Quanta, "New Shapes Solve Infinite...
View ArticleWork of UChicago mathematicians featured in Quanta
The work of UChicago's Maryanthe Malliaris (with her collaborator Saharon Shelah) has been featured in a recent article on Quanta, "Mathematicians Measure Infinities and Find They’re Equal".
View ArticleWelcome to the department
We are happy to welcome Eduard Looijinga, Pierre-Louis Lions, and Leonid Polterovich to our department. Eduard will be here for all of Winter and Spring quarters, Pierre-Louis from 1/1 till 2/2, and...
View Article2018 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
We're happy to be able to share the news that Sasha Beilinson and Volodya Drinfeld have won the 2018 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Please join us in congratulating them!
View Article2018 PSD and Departmental Teaching Prizes Awarded
Please join us in congratulating all of the graduate students who have earned teaching awards this year! The recipients of Lawrence and Josephine Graves Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching...
View ArticleAndré Neves named as Simons Investigator
André Neves is one of three mathematicians who have been named as 2018 Simons Investigators. These awards are for five years, and provide $100,000 per year.
View ArticleA Proof About Where Symmetries Can't Exist
Quantamagazine article regarding Zimmer's conjecture
View ArticleMeet Our Students
Meet some of the incredible students pursuing graduate degrees in the physical sciences.
View Article2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
We're happy to be able to share the news that Greg Lawler has won the 2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Please join us in congratulating him!
View ArticleUndergraduate math major honored by Association for Women in Mathematics
Naomi Sweeting, a fourth-year in the College, has been awarded the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize, given annually by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to an undergraduate woman for...
View ArticleWork of UChicago mathematician, André Neves, featured in Quanta
The work of UChicago's André Neves (with his collaborator Fernando Codá Marques) has been featured in a recent article in Quanta, "Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces"
View ArticleMarianna Csornyei elected to Hungarian Academy of Sciences
We are pleased to announce that Marianna Csornyei has been elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
View ArticleMaryanthe Malliaris wins a Quantrell Award
We are pleased to announce that Maryanthe Malliaris has won a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
View ArticleBreakthrough Prize in Mathematics
We are pleased to announce that Alex Eskin has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
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