Laci Babai elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
We are very happy to congratulate our colleague, Laci Babai, the George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and...
View ArticleSimion Filip wins Harper Dissertation Fellowship
We are very proud to announce that Simion Filip has won the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship.
View ArticleRaghavan Narasimhan has passed away
On Saturday, October 3, Raghavan Narasimhan passed away. Narasimhan was a beloved and highly respected member of the department for over 40 years.
View ArticleStart of this year's Young Scholars Program
On Saturday, October 24, the Young Scholars Program held its first meeting of the year. The program is a deep experience in mathematical thought and effort for students from 7th grade to 12th grade. It...
View ArticleLeonid 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 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 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 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 ArticleGreg 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.
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