Congratulations 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.
View ArticleLaci 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 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.
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