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Mihaela Ifrim awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Posted on January 28, 2025

Through her work with the NSF, Mihaela Ifrim has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).   Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional …

Posted in accolades, Awards, Awards, Faculty

Dima Arinkin featured as 1 of 11 involved in settling the Geometric Langlands conjecture

Posted on July 25, 2024

Quanta recently featured an article on the settlement of the Langlands conjecture, and our own Dima Arinkin was one of the people involved in the proof. This problem, first presented by Robert Langlands, a professor …

Posted in accolades, Faculty, geometry, mediamention

Parvarthi Kooloth awarded AWM dissertation prize

Posted on November 29, 2023

Our recently-graduated PhD student Parvathi Kooloth has won one of the two AWM Dissertation Prizes, which will be presented at the JMM.  Parvathi did her PhD under Leslie Smith’s supervision. Congratulations, Parvathi! *** The Association …

Posted in accolades, Awards, Former, Graduate Students

New AMS Award in Mathematical Writing Named for Martin Isaacs

Posted on September 13, 2023

A new AMS Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Writing is named after our esteemed Emeritus colleague Martin Isaacs.  The prize is for a paper published in a primary AMS journal in the previous two years. …

Posted in accolades, Awards, Emeritus

Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis dedicated to Husseini, Fadell

Posted on September 12, 2023

A special edition of the journal “Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis”, No 1 of volume 61, 2023,  has been published and is dedicated to the memory of our deceased former faculty Ed Fadell and Sufian …

Posted in accolades, Emeritus, In Memoriam

Stovall and Cai named 2023 AMS Fellows

Posted on November 9, 2022

Betsy Stovall and Jin-Yi Cai have been named as 2023 AMS Fellows.  This program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Jin-Yi Cai has been …

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Jordan Ellenberg wins 2023 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award

Posted on September 14, 2022

Jordan Ellenberg and Grant Sanderson will receive the 2023 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award during a prize reception at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at …

Posted in accolades, Awards, Faculty, mediamention

Raymond Damadian, BS, 1956, inventor of the MRI scanner, dies at age 86.

Posted on September 6, 2022

Dr. Raymond Damadian, who built the first magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which revolutionized doctors’ ability to diagnose cancer and other illnesses — but who, to his dismay, saw the Nobel Prize for the science behind …

Posted in accolades, Alumni, In Memoriam, mediamention

Sebastien Roch named Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Posted on April 11, 2022

Sebastien Roch has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).  IMS is the main scientific society for probability and the mathematical end of statistics.  Among its various activities, IMS publishes the Annals series of flagship journals of probability. Link:  https://imstat.org/2022/04/22/2022-ims-fellows-announced/

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Leslie Smith named as a 2022 American Mathematics Society Fellow

Posted on November 1, 2021

Congratulations to Leslie Smith, the newest member of our department to be named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2021.  She was named for contributions to applied mathematics and particularly fluid mechanics. The …

Posted in accolades, Faculty
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