Greg Lawler has been appointed the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service...
We are happy to announce that Greg Lawler has been appointed the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics and Statistics.
View ArticleDiane Herrmann's artwork featured in AMS calendar
The 2013 AMS Calendar has a wonderful series of mathematical images. August's image is the work of Diane Herrmann, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies.
View ArticleMaryanthe Malliaris and Saharon Shelah solve the \(\mathfrak{p} =...
The recent issue of PNAS contains the announcement of Maryanthe Malliaris's solution, with Saharon Shelah, of the longstanding \(\mathfrak{p} = \mathfrak{t}\) problem in set theory. It also contains a...
View ArticleSeveral UChicago faculty to present at 2014 ICM
Matt Emerton, Benson Farb, Wilhelm Schlag, and Luis Silvestre will be speaking at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul this coming summer, in Number Theory, Topology, Analysis and...
View ArticleShmuel Weinberger elected as an AAAS Fellow
We are happy to congratulate Shmuel Weinberger on his election as a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.
View ArticleSarah Peluse wins the Alice T. Schafer prize
We are very happy to congratulate Sarah Peluse for winning the Alice T. Schafer prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman of the AWM. She will receive it at the annual meeting of...
View ArticleBenson Farb to give address at the Joint Meetings
Benson Farb will be giving the joint MAA-AMS address at the annual joint meeting in January. His talk will be entitled Braids, Homology and Polynomials: An Emerging Pattern in Algebra and Topology.
View ArticleAmie Wilkinson elected as a Fellow of the AMS
We are happy to congratulate Amie Wilkinson for her election as a Fellow of the AMS in the 2013 class of Fellows "for contributions to dynamical systems".
View ArticlePaul Sally has passed away
The mathematical world and the University of Chicago lost one of its beloved and honored members on December 30, 2013. Paul Sally was a specialist in harmonic analysis on semi-simple groups and a...
View ArticlePaul Sally is inaugural winner of new AMS teaching award
Paul Sally has been named as the first recipient of the AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Happily, he received word of this award in late December of last year.
View ArticleCongratulations to Ilya Gekhtman, Galyna Dobrovolska, and Alex Wright on...
We are very happy to congratulate our current graduates Galyna Dobrovolska and Ilya Gekhtman who have received NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships and Alex Wright who has received a Clay Fellowship. They will...
View ArticleMaryanthe Malliaris receives Sloan Foundation research fellowship
Congratulations to Maryanthe Malliaris for being a recipient of a Sloan Foundation research fellowship.
View ArticleCarlos Kenig elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Carlos Kenig, who has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
View ArticleCongratulations to our Cohen Prize winners and Honors candidates
Congratulations to Jun Hou Fung, Benjamin Gammage, Sarah Peluse, Jesse Silliman, and Weston Ungemach for receiving the mathematics department's Cohen Prize. The Paul R. Cohen Memorial Prize is awarded...
View ArticleGrigori Margulis to receive honorary doctorate from UChicago
We are happy to announce that Professor Grigori Margulis of Yale University will be receiving an honorary doctorate at our coming convocation. Margulis's work has changed several areas of mathematics...
View ArticleSimion Filip and Katharine Turner receive department prizes
This year, Simion Filip has received the department's Izaak Wirszup memorial prize for excellence in research. Simion works on the geometry and dynamics of the moduli space of abelian differentials on...
View ArticleAnne Marsden wins the Churchill Fellowship
We are very proud of our fourth year student Anne Marsden who has won the prestigious Churchill Fellowship to study at Cambridge. Congratulations, Anne!
View ArticleChicago Public School science fair honors Paul Sally
The Chicago Public School science fair will be awarding $2500 in prizes for outstanding math research projects this year and into the future. The top prize, $233 (prime AND Fibonacci!), will be named...
View ArticleTakis Souganidis elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and...
We are happy to congratulate Takis Souganidis, who has been elected as a Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) "for contributions to the theory and numerical solution of both...
View ArticleAlex Eskin elected to the National Academy of Sciences
We are happy to congratulate Alex Eskin, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics, on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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