UChicago 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 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
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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"
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