Departmental Honors

Congratulations to Professors Kontorovich, Mirek, and Knop on their 2026 ICM speaking invitations

Congratulations to Professors Kontorovich, Mirek, and Knop on their 2026 ICM speaking invitations

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Alex Kontorovich and Associate Professor Mariusz Mirek on their invitations to speak at the 2026 ICM in Philadelphia. Congratulations also to Professor Friedrich Knop, a long time Rutgers faculty member who is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Erlangen. From https://www.icm2026.org/event/ac193975-5d24-4628-8c30-ddb23de19a8b/speakers. Rutgers, New Brunswick, will host two satellite conferences for the 2026 ICM: The Analysis of Partial...

Math major Annie Wei wins Goldwater Scholarship

Math major Annie Wei wins Goldwater Scholarship

Math major Annie Wei and three other Rutgers University-New Brunswick students have been selected as Goldwater Scholars, a prestigious national honor for undergraduates who plan to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Rutgers undergraduates Elisa Bu Sha, Julianne Chan, Anisha Jackson and Annie Wei are studying topics including neurobiology, environmental contaminants in water, regenerative tissue engineering, and higher-level mathematics. Rutgers-New Brunswick...

Women Mathematicians at Rutgers Receive Honors

Women Mathematicians at Rutgers Receive Honors

"Over the last year, five women faculty members in the Department of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences, received external honors, including appointments to prestigious scholarly associations and awards for research excellence. In addition, one of the department’s recent graduates won an award from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation." - From https://sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/faculty/faculty-news-detail/women-mathematicians-thrive-at-rutgers-continuing-a-tradition-from-the-1960s.

Steven J. Brams and Peter S. Landweber receive 2023 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award

Steven J. Brams and Peter S. Landweber receive 2023 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award

Congratulations to Steven J. Brams and Peter S. Landweber who have received a 2023 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for their work “Three Persons, Two Cuts: A New Cake-Cutting Algorithm,” Mathematics Magazine, 95:2, 110-122. “Solutions to the 3-player cake-cutting problem previously required the use of simultaneously moving knives, whereas we show that this problem can be solved by solving equations,” Brams said. “The use of mathematical methods in fair division and game theory is...

Rutgers AWM Student Chapter Receives Award for Professional Development

Rutgers AWM Student Chapter Receives Award for Professional Development

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is proud to announce the seventh annual AWM Student Chapter Award winners.....The winning chapters will be recognized at the Student Dessert Reception on Friday, August 4th at MAA MathFest 2023 in Tampa, Florida. Rutgers University: Professional Development The AWM Student Chapter at Rutgers University is recognized for sustained and thoughtful professional development work over the course of the past year. The chapter hosted 11 professional...

Rutgers' Top 25 finish in the Putnam competition, Two Goldwater Scholars, and other Undergraduate Accomplishments

Rutgers' Top 25 finish in the Putnam competition, Two Goldwater Scholars, and other Undergraduate Accomplishments

Our undergraduate program once again received exciting external recognition, including Rutgers' strong performance in the 2022 International William Lowell Putnam Competition, the most prestigious mathematics problem solving competition. Rutgers finished 21st out of 456 participating colleges and universities from across North America. Andrew Krapivin had the highest score from Rutgers, placing him in the top 125 of the 3,415 students who took the exam. Four more Rutgers students finished in...

Kerrigan, Kwon, and Soria Carrao receive awards

Kerrigan, Kwon, and Soria Carrao receive awards

Lecturer John Kerrigan was recognized with a University-wide 2023 Rutgers Excellence in Online Teaching Award, recognizing his amazing efforts and accomplishments during the pandemic. Hill Assistant Professor Maria Soria Carro has been awarded the Vicent Caselles Prize, an award given by the Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME) to six young mathematicians for their dissertation research. Incoming Hill Assistant Professor Heeyoung Kwon has been awarded the 2023 SIAG/Financial Mathematics...

Professor Narayanan wins Sloan, Professors Cakoni, Carbone, and Carlen inducted into prestigious organizations

Professor Narayanan wins Sloan, Professors Cakoni, Carbone, and Carlen inducted into prestigious organizations

Associate Professor Bhargav Narayanan received two impressive awards this past semester: an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and Rutgers' Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. Only 10 Sloan Fellowships are given each year in pure Mathematics. Other faculty honors include the elections of: Professor Fioralba Cakoni as a SIAM Fellow; Professor Eric Carlen as a Foreign Corresponding Member of the Lisbon (Portuguese) Academy of Sciences; and Professor Lisa Carbone as...

Paper co-authored by Professor Pham Tiep is recognized by Kalman Prize for Best Paper

Paper co-authored by Professor Pham Tiep is recognized by Kalman Prize for Best Paper

A paper co-authored by Professor Pham Huu Tiep was recognized with the Kalman Prize for Best Paper by the New Zealand Mathematical Society. This award recognizes excellence in research carried out by New Zealand mathematicians. The named paper "Surjective word maps and Burnside's paqb theorem" was co-authored by Professor Tiep with Eamonn O'Brien of the University of Auckland, together with Robert M. Guralnick, Martin We. Liebeck, and Aner Shalev. Professor Tiep holds the Joshua Barlaz Chair in...

Jeffry Kahn and Pham Tiep selected as 2022 Simons Fellows in Mathematics

Jeffry Kahn and Pham Tiep selected as 2022 Simons Fellows in Mathematics

Math Department Distinguished Professors Jeff Kahn and Pham Tiep (holder of the Joshua Barlaz Chair in Mathematics) were selected as 2022 Simons Fellows in Mathematics.The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances.

Associate Professor Kristen Hendricks is awarded Board of Trustees Research Fellowship

Associate Professor Kristen Hendricks is awarded Board of Trustees Research Fellowship

Associate Professor Kristen Hendricks has been awarded a Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence Award for the academic year 2020-2021. This award is bestowed in recognition outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The fellowship carries with it a grant of $1000 from the Board of Trustees.

Rutgers student chapter of Association for Women in Mathematics wins fundraising/sustainability award

Rutgers student chapter of Association for Women in Mathematics wins fundraising/sustainability award

The Rutgers student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics has been named winner of the (nationwide) 2021 Fundraising/Sustainability award of the AWM. The award citation reads: The Rutgers University AWM Student Chapter is honored in this category for their success in increasing their membership numbers, for their collaboration with other campus groups, and for the diversity of events hosted throughout the year. To grow their membership - particularly among undergraduates - the...

Professor Fioralba Cakoni inducted as a Foreign Member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences

Professor Fioralba Cakoni inducted as a Foreign Member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences

Rutgers Distinguished Professor Fioralba Cakoni has been selected as a Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. In the ceremonial announcement, Professor Cakoni is cited as a “distinguished Albanian mathematician with international reputation in the area of inverse problem for partial differential equations”.

Math Department congratulates 2021 Honors graduates and prize winners

Math Department congratulates 2021 Honors graduates and prize winners

The Department of Mathematics is pleased to recognize those of its majors who are being acknowledged in 2021 with departmental honors and prizes. Sixteen seniors are completing the extensive requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree, the largest number ever. Ozan Acikgoz, Zachary Bar-David, Yin Chen, Lawrence Frolov, Xiaoxiao He, Nicholas C. McConnell, Debendro Mookerjee, and Olu Olorode are graduating with Highest Honors in Mathematics. Christopher Brown, Brandon Gomes, Matthew Issac,...

Rutgers Ph.D. Eric Rowland wins MAA teaching award

Rutgers Ph.D. Eric Rowland wins MAA teaching award

Eric Rowland, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Hofstra University, has been announced as the 2021 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award presented by the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Professor Rowland completed his Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 2009 under the direction of Professor Doron Zielberger.

Math Graduate Student Marco Castronovo receives Outstanding Doctoral Student Award

Math Graduate Student Marco Castronovo receives Outstanding Doctoral Student Award

Marco Castronovo, who is completing his Ph.D. in Mathematics under the direction of Distinguished Professor Chris Woodward, has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the School of Graduate Studies. Marco has accepted a position as Joseph F. Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University beginning Fall 2021.

Henryk Iwaniec receives the Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award

Henryk Iwaniec receives the Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award

Henryk Iwaniec, New Jersey Professor of Mathematics, has been named the 2020 winner of the Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, for his outstanding contributions to analytic number theory. The award honors an outstanding scientist of Polish origin (Polish born or of Polish ancestry) living and working in the United States or Canada.

Check out the you-tube video "The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi"

Check out the you-tube video "The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi"

Rutgers Mathematics Professor Alex Kontorovich has collaborated with film-maker Derek Muller to produce an entertaining and informative video "The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi". Check it out! Here is Professor Kontorovich's earlier video, The Riemann hypothesis, explained.

Professor Jozsef Beck's book "Equidistribution of Dynamical Systems" is published

Professor Jozsef Beck's book "Equidistribution of Dynamical Systems" is published

The book, Equidistribution of Dynamical Systems, by Jozsef Beck, who holds the Harold H. Martin Professor of Mathematics, has been published by World Scientific Publishing.

Rutgers awarded Simons Foundation Junior Faculty Fellows Grant

Rutgers awarded Simons Foundation Junior Faculty Fellows Grant

Rutgers University was awarded a $2.25 Million grant from the Simons Foundation to fund three junior faculty fellows, one in Mathematics, one in Physics and one in Computer Science. Each of these positions will be a three-year tenure track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. The Mathematics Department position is listed in mathjobs.org under the code TT20.

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