was awarded a five year NSF CAREER Grant. To quote from the NSF Program Description: "These are foundation-wide awards in support of junior faculty who exemp lify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research".
Jeffry Kahn
was one of three recipients of a 2012 Fulkerson Prize. These prizes are jointly sponsored by the Mathematical Optimization Society and the American Mathematical Society, and they are awarded every three years in recognition of an outstanding paper in discrete mathematics.
Richard Falk
was named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The citation reads: "for contributions to the understanding of the stability and convergence properties of the finite element method, and for service to the numerical analysis community".
Endre Szemerédi
State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science, and an associate member of the Mathematics Department, was awarded the 2012 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Haim Brezis
was elected as one of ten Honorary Members of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
Liping Liu
was one of 48 scientists and engineers who have been selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to receive a Young Investigator Award.
Richard Lyons
was one of the recipients of the 2012 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. Richard shares the prize with Michael Aschbacher, Stephen Smith and Ronald Solomon.
Joel Lebowitz
received an Honorary Doctorate from Syracuse University at its 158th Commencement. The citation, among other things, specifically mentions Joel's development of the semi-annual "Rutgers Meetings".
2011
Saharon Shelah
was one of two recepients of the 2011 Emet Prize in The Exact Sciences, a major prize awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation and the Israeli Government.
Henryk Iwaniec
was awarded the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
Natasa Sesum
was awarded a five year NSF CAREER Grant. To quote from the NSF Program Description: "These are foundation-wide awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research".
2010
Haim Brezis
was elected a foreign member of the Italian National Academy (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei). He has also been given the honorific title "Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur" by the President of France.
Eduardo Sontag
was awarded the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Award by the Board of Directors of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The citation reads: "For fundamental contributions to nonlinear systems theory and nonlinear feeback control."
Endre Szemerédi
New Jersey Professor of Computer Science, and an Associate Member of our department, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. For more information see the NAS press release.
Jian Song & Roderich Tumulka
were both awarded Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowships in recognition of the scholarly excellence that led to their promotions to Associate Professor.
Michael Vogelius
was elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab).
received the Rutgers Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award, the only one awarded to a New Brunswick/Piscataway faculty member in 2005. He was cited in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the area of control theory, his patient, enthusiastic, and stimulating teaching and his extraordinary ability to motivate students to achieve at the highest level. Photo
Doron Zeilberger
received the 2004 Euler Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. Citation
2004
Haim Brezis
was elected Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society, for the term February 1, 2005 - January 31, 2008.
Amy Cohen
received the Mathematical Association of America-NJ Public Service Award.
Israel Gelfand
was elected to membership in the European Academy of Sciences.
Simon Gindikin
received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research.
Stephen Greenfield
was named the 2004 New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). More details ...
Martin David Kruskal
was one of nine recipients of the Eminent Scientists Award of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Joel Lebowitz
received the 2004 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, of the American Physical Society. He was cited for his tireless personal activism, throughout his superb career as a theoretical physicist, to help scientists and defend their human rights in countries around the globe.
Michael Saks
and Fotios Zaharoglou received the 2004 Gödel prize for their paper Wait-Free k-Set Agreement is Impossible: The Topology of Public Knowledge (SIAM J. Computing, 2000). Citation
François Treves
received the "Laurea Specialistica Honoris Causa in Matematica" from the University of Pisa. A conference was also held in his honor, April 23, 2004, at the University of Pisa.
2003
Haim Brezis
was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stephen Greenfield
received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the New Jersey Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Martin David Kruskal
received the 2003 Maxwell Prize of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He was cited for discovering the particle-like behavior of solitary waves, which he named `solitons'; for introducing the inverse scattering transform method of solving the initial-value problem for the KdV equation; and for many other contributions to applied mathematics.
Stephen Miller
won an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
Jean Taylor
delivered the Emmy Noether Lecture (Five little crystals and how they grew) of the Association of Women in Mathematics. She also was elected to a 5-year term as Trustee of the American Mathematical Society.
François Treves
was elected a Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Wolmer Vasconcelos
was elected a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
2002
Haim Brezis
received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
Henryk Iwaniec
received the Cole Prize in Number Theory, for his "fundamental contributions to analytic number theory." This prize is awarded by the American Mathematical Society every three years. More details ...
YanYan Li
gave an Invited Lecture in the Partial Differential Equations Section at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.
Xiaochun Rong
gave an Invited Lecture in the Differential Geometry Section at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.
Eduardo Sontag
received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research. He also received the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize of the Control Systems Society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). This prize recognizes distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. The awardee delivers a plenary address at the annual Conference on Decision and Control.
Christopher Woodward
was awarded a Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence.
2001
Haim Brezis
received an honorary degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Joel Lebowitz
received a the Vito Volterra Medal of the Academia Nazionale de Lincei, Rome. He also received a Teaching Award from the Graduate School-New Brunswick. More details ...
Fred Roberts
received the Science and Technology Centers Pioneer Award of the National Science Foundation. More details ...
received the Douglass Medal for outstanding service to the Douglass community.
Roe Goodman
received the FAS Teaching Award for full Professors.
Stephen Greenfield
received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Xiaojun Huang
was awarded a Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence.
Henryk Iwaniec
received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research.
Martin David Kruskal
received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Heriot-Watt University. He was also honored with KRUSKAL 2000, at the University of Adelaide, Australia, a Conference on Integrable Systems in Celebration of Martin David Kruskal's 75th Birthday.
Joel Lebowitz
received the Henri Poincaré Prize of the International Association of Mathematical Physics and the Daniel Iagolnitzer Foundation. Laudatio
Xiaochun Rong
was named a "Cheung Kong Scholar" by Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong. More details ...
Saharon Shelah
received the János Bolyai International Mathematical Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. More details ...
Héctor Sussmann's
paper "Controllability of Nonlinear Systems" was selected to appear in the IEEE volume Twenty-Five Seminal Papers in Control.
1999
Haim Brezis
was made Honorary Professor at the Academia Sinica (Beijing), and at Fudan University (Shanghai), and was elected a Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (in Madrid).
Felix Browder
began his two-year term as President of the American Mathematical Society.
Amy Cohen
was named Outstanding College or University Teacher of the Year by the Mathematical Association of America (NJ Section).
Israel Gelfand
was made an Honorary Life Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and received the State Award of the Russian Federation.
Simon Gindikin
received the State Award of the Russian Federation.
Joel Lebowitz
received the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from Clark University.
Feng Luo
received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence.
Fred Roberts
received the Distinguished Service Prize of the Association for Computing Machinery -- Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory.
Jean Taylor
began serving as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Association for Women in Science, and received the Rutgers College Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award.
1998
Haim Brezis
received the Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa degree from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Jeffry Kahn
received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research.
János Komlós
was elected a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
James Lepowsky
received the Rutgers University Graduate School-New Brunswick Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences.
Héctor Sussmann
received the Award for Outstanding Control Systems Magazine Paper of the Year from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London).
Joel Lebowitz
received the Rutgers College Class of 1962 Public Service Award.
Joseph Rosenstein
received the Rutgers University Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service, and received the Max Sobel Outstanding Mathematics Educator Award of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New Jersey.
Héctor Sussmann
received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research.
1996
Haim Brezis
received an honorary degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium).
Stephen Greenfield
received the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education.
Jeffry Kahn
received the George Pólya Prize of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians.
Joel Lebowitz
recived the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award of the New York Academy of Sciences.
