Vladimir 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...
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