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• Professor Dan Ketover has won a Frontiers of Science award for his paper with Y. Liokumovich "The Smale conjecture and min-max theory"

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• Professor Sheila Tabanli has been named NJ STEM Pathways STEM Educator of the Year, an award recognizing educators who demonstrate exceptional commitment to advancing STEM learning and expanding access for diverse student populations. Tabanli's teaching focuses on supporting students’ development as confident, resilient learners in mathematics.

  From https://njbmagazine.com/njb-news-now/nj-stem-month-2026-launches-with-call-to-engage-60000-learners/

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• From https://mathinstitutes.org/highlights/research-highlight-mathematical-analysis-of-many-body-quantum-simulation-with-coulomb-potentials:

  Professor Soffer's joint work with Fang and Wu was this month's featured research.

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• The Chancellor Award for Excellence in Broadening STEM Access, awarded to Melissa Lieberman, Associate Teaching Professor, Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences.

  https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/chancellor/faculty-excellence-awards

  Professor Lieberman piloted project-based versions of our algebra skills courses (with Professors Echeverria and Ellis) which have dramatically improved pass rates.  She revised  a sequence of courses intended for students in non-STEM majors that doubled the number of students enrolled in the course, allowing them to satisfy their quantitative reasoning requirement and shorten their time to degree.  Finally, she has been deeply involved in improving the university’s courses  for future elementary and middle school teachers in mathematics, which helps the next generation of students as well.

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• SAS 2025 Staff Excellence Recognition Award

  Laurie A. Salvemini, Business Specialist

  Department of Mathematics

  Laurie is recognized for her exceptional leadership and operational excellence in managing the full life cycle of grant administration for the Department of Mathematics. Supporting approximately fifty grant submissions each year, Laurie develops compliant budgets, prepares complex proposals, and ensures timely, accurate submissions—even during peak seasons—earning the deep trust of faculty and leadership.

  Her expertise extends throughout post-award administration, where she independently reconciles accounts, monitors compliance, manages payroll and effort reporting, and oversees a range of sponsored and non-sponsored funds with precision. Her improved reconciliation and reporting processes have strengthened financial stewardship, reduced operational risk, and increased transparency across the department.

  Laurie is deeply valued for her dependability, professionalism, and collaborative spirit. She brings insight to every challenge, supports colleagues beyond her role, and enables researchers to work confidently, backed by strong administrative support.

  For her dedication, expertise, and transformative impact on our operations, we are delighted to recognize Laurie A. Salvemini. 

  https://sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/sas-achievements/achievements-news-detail/sas-2025-staff-excellence-recognition-awards#LaurieSalvemini

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• Congratulations to Professor Liping Liu, who has been named a Fellow of the Society for Engineering Science!

  https://imechanica.org/ses-medalists-and-fellows

  More about Professor Liu's research on mechanics and materials --- multiscale-multiphysics analysis and modeling, optimal design of multiphase and multifunctional composites, and theoretical and computational material science -- may be found at https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~ll502/.

   

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• Professor Sheila Tabanli was interviewed by Bonni Stachowiak in her podcast “teaching in higher ed “, on inclusive teaching practices: Link: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/overcoming-the-curse-of-expertise-and-other-ways-to-be-inclusive-in-our-teaching-with-sheila-tabanli/

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• The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Fioralba Cakoni will be the 2026 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, July 6 –10, 2026. A full press release is attached.

  The Kovalevsky Lecture honors Sonia Kovalevsky (1850–1891), the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late-nineteenth century. In 1874, Kovalevsky received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Göttingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most important work in the theory of differential equations. Cakoni was recommended for this award by a joint AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Selection Committee (Claudia Falcon, Irene Fonseca, Noemi Petra (Chair), and Josef Sifuentes).

  Please join AWM and SIAM in congratulating Fioralba Cakoni!

  Read the Press Release here.

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• Professor Maxime van de Moortel has won a Sloan Research Fellowship.   Dr. van de Moortel’s field of mathematical research is the analysis of hyperbolic and dispersive partial differential equations, and in particular the types of partial differential equations that come from problems in Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Dr. van de Moortel has made progress on some of the hardest singularity problems in mathematical relativity, as in particular Penrose’s Strong Cosmic Censorship (SCC) conjecture.

  Congratulations Maxime!

  https://www.rutgers.edu/news/two-rutgers-professors-earn-prestigious-sloan-research-fellowships

  https://sloan.org/fellowships/2026-Fellows

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• Professor Lisa Carbone was interviewed recently by Google on the use of Gemini 3 Deep Think to advance mathematical research.

  ttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/8s4W5o76yZQ

  More information about her research can be found on Professor Carbone's web page https://lisacarbonemath.org/.

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• Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Fioralba Cakoni who has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Inverse Problems, the leading "interdisciplinary journal combining mathematical and experimental papers on inverse problems with theoretical, numerical and practical approaches to their solution"!

  https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/inverse-problems/editorial-board/

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• Congratulations to Iñigo Urtiaga Erneta, Hill Assistant Professor, on the award of a Vicent Caselles prize!   

  A translation of the prize citation from the BBVA Foundation reads:

  Iñigo Urtiaga Erneta, Hill Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Researcher at Rutgers University (New Jersey, United States), completed a double degree in Physics and Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a Master's degree at the University of Bonn, and a PhD again at the UPC. His research focuses on the study of elliptic partial differential equations and coagulation-fragmentation equations, where his important solo contributions stand out.

  https://www.fbbva.es/noticias/fallados-premios-matematicas-rsme-fundacion-bbva-2024/

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• Congratulations to Associate Professor Dennis Kriventsov and Hill Assistant Professor Abhishek Mallick on their receipt of 2025 Frontiers of Science Awards for their  joint papers 

  Regularity for shape optimizers: the degenerate case, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 2019, Regularity for shape optimizers: the nondegenerate case, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 2018, 

  Dennis Kriventsov (Rutgers University) Fanghua Lin (NYU)

  The (2,1)-cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice, Inventiones Mathematicae 2024

  Irving Dai (University of Texas at Austin), Sungkyung Kang (Oxford) Abhishek Mallick (Rutgers University), JungHwan Park (KAIST), Matthew Stoffregen (Michigan State University)

  From https://my.conf.bimsa.cn/fileviewer/pdf/ec744288-0628-45c0-af14-a0904d049e08?name=Mathematics-2025_0718%20drop%20one.

  

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• Congratulations to Hill Assistant Professor Izar Alonso Lorenzo who was awarded the Vicent Caselles prize of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society and the BBVA Foundation (this is a PhD prize for Spanish mathematicians under 30 years old).

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• 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 Differential Equations arising in Physics―A satellite conference of the 2026 ICM will be held July 13-17, 2026.  See https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~mv715/icm26sat.  The organizers are Fioralba Cakoni, Rutgers University .Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts Amherst , Toan Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University , Avy Soffer, Rutgers University , and Maxime Van de Moortel, Rutgers University .

  The Rutgers Gauge Theory, Low-Dimensional Topology, and Geometric Analysis Conference 2026  will be held Monday through Friday, July 13—17, 2026.  See https://www.finmath.rutgers.edu/rutgers-gauge-theory-and-low-dimensional-topology-and-geometric-analysis-conference-2026.  The Organizing Committee is Izar Alonso, Rutgers University, Paul Feehan, Rutgers University,Kristen Hendricks, Rutgers University, Daniel Ketover, Rutgers University, Chi Li, Rutgers University, Thomas Leness, Florida International University, Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University, Jian Song, Rutgers University, Christopher Woodward, Rutgers University and Guangbo Xu, Rutgers University.   

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• Congratulations to Professor Vidit Nanda of Oxford University, a Rutgers 2012 PhD, for winning one of this year's Whitehead Prizes.  Dr. Nanda's dissertation at Rutgers was supervised by Prof. Konstantin Mischaikow.  From https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72373:

  Vidit Nanda is a Professor of Mathematics at  Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College. He works at the interface of algebraic topology, geometry and data science and is a member of the Data Science, Topology and Geometry groups in Oxford Mathematics. He previously worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Turing Institute (as one of its first Research Fellows).

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• Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Emeritus Eduardo Sontag for his election to the National Academy of Sciences.  Read more at https://www.nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-election/.

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• Congratulations to Professor Feng Luo who has been named a 2025 Simons Fellow in Mathematics. 

  Professor Luo's recent work is in hyperbolic geometry, among other areas. 

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• 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 was the top institution in New Jersey for Goldwater Scholars this year, said Anne Wallen, director of the Office of Distinguished Fellowships at Rutgers-New Brunswick.  

  Four Rutgers Students Earn Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

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• "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.   

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• The 2024 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to Haïm Brezis for his outstanding and seminal contributions in several fields of Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, and for his remarkable influence in mathematics, in particular through his exceptional training of PhD students. His book on Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations, has been used for forty years as a classical textbook in many universities worldwide; first published in French in 1983, it has been reprinted, expanded, and translated into eight languages.

  “Brezis has greatly contributed to leading and shaping the fields of Nonlinear Analysis and Partial Differential Equations and how the main questions are posed,” the prize citation notes. “He has started and animated several different areas of analysis, for example maximal monotone operators, gradient flows and weak notions of degree. His papers contain gems with beautiful unexpected statements. His philosophy of action, which always starts with simple and easily understandable questions, has been adopted by many of his numerous students. Although a pure mathematician at heart, his mathematics has often been motivated by, or found its way back to, applications — for example to liquid crystals and to Ginzburg-Landau vortices in the theory of superconductivity.”

  Brezis’s legacy as an educator is in the many students and associates who went on to outstanding careers; he has supervised fifty-eight PhD theses. “In addition to his role as a teacher, leader, and researcher, he has contributed greatly to the community through his many editorial roles and through influential posts such as vice-president of the American Mathematical Society,” continues the citation. Brezis is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

  From https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7259

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• 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 well-established,” Landweber added. “Other areas, such as data analysis and robotics, are now benefiting from new topological methods.”

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• 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 development events on a variety of topics (including mentorship, study skills, gender bias, and interdisciplinary mathematics) that addressed the needs and goals of their members at the undergraduate student, graduate student, and faculty/postdoc levels. The chapter also hosted a variety of social events throughout the year to help build their mathematical community at Rutgers.

   See https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-student-chapter-awards/ for a list of award winners.

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• 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 the top 300:  Justin Kim, George Tsoukalas, Michael Schleppy and Eric Yang.

  Congratulations to all of the Rutgers students who participated in the 83rd competition:  Daniel Baumgartner, Pratyoy Biswas, Girish Ganesan, Maxwell Goldberg, Michael Gorbunov, Justin Kim, Andrew Krapivin, Jesse Lerner, Eric Liu, Aaron Lozhkin, Rajat Peddinti, Niko Pilauri, Michael Schleppy, Julia Shneidman, Mahadevan Seetharaman, Russell Stetson, George Tsoukalas, Eric Yang, Thomas Yang, Zeyu Zheng. 

  Cormac Grindall and Andrew Krapivin, both double majors in Mathematics and Computer Science, have been awarded the distinguished Goldwater Scholarship for 2023, following in the steps of math major Julia Shneidman (who was a 2022 awardee).  Andrew and Cormac also received the Mathematics Department’s recognition for the highest achievement through the junior year: for Andrew, the John Bogart Prize, and for Cormac, the Tilla Weinstein Award. 

  Aditi Kiron, a senior majoring in Mathematics Actuarial Option, has won a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study in South Korea next year.  The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support academic exchanges between the United States and over 150 countries around the world. Rutgers has again this year been recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a top producer of Fulbright Scholars and Students, with 29 current or recently graduated students receiving awards. 

  The 3-person team of Justin Kim, Michael Schleppy, and George Tsoukalas finished first in the New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition.  Other Rutgers 3-person teams (and in fact, some 2-person teams competing at a disadvantage!) also ranked highly with the following results: 

   

  TEAM (out of 23):   

  First:  Justin Kim, Michael Schleppy, George Tsoukalas 
  Third:  Michael Gorbunov, Parth Patel, Amol Srivastava 
  Fourth:  John Greaney-Cheng, Leah Kaup, Shadmehr Khan 
  Fifth:  Andrew Krapivin, Howard Luo  
  Eighth:  Girish Ganesan, Philip Stetson 

  Individual (out of 66): 

  3rd:  Girish Ganesan & Shadmehr Khan 
  5th:  Howard Luo, Justin Kim & George Tsoukalas 
  9th:  Andrew Krapivin, Leah Kaup & Michael Schleppy 
  12th:  Michael Gorbunov, John Greaney-Cheng, Parth Patel & Amol Srivastava 
  17th:  Philip Stetson 

  In particular, Rutgers mathematics students received 13 out of the top 17 scores.  Leah Kaup was also recognized as the highest scoring female participant in the competition.   

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• 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 Conference Paper Prize at the 2023 SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM23) in Philadelphia, PA.  Congratulations also go out to Professor Kasper Larsen, a coauthor of the prize-winning paper.

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• 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 a Fellow of the Australian Mathematics Society.

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• The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2023 AWM Dissertation Prizes will be presented to Jia Shi, María Soria-Carro, and Rajula Srivastava on January 4, 2023 during the Joint Prize Ceremony at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA. A press release is attached and can be found here: https://awm-math.org/awm-presents-the-2023-dissertation-prize-winners/. Full Citations and responses from the prize winners are posted at: https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-dissertation-prize/awm-dissertation-prize-2023/.

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• Panagiota Daskalopoulos of Columbia University and Nataša Šešum of Rutgers University will receive the 2023 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize for groundbreaking work in the study of ancient solutions to geometric evolution equations.   Ancient solutions are crucial to the understanding of singularities of geometric flows and are of major interest in the theory of renormalization group flows in theoretical physics. Daskalopoulos and Šešum launched a systematic investigation of ancient solutions in 2010 in foundational work with Richard Hamilton. Their deep and influential work over the past decade culminated in the exciting breakthroughs for which this prize is being awarded.

  https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7116

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• The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2023 Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry will be awarded to Kristen Hendricks, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. A full press release is attached and posted here:  https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PR-Birman-2023-K-Hendricks.pdf.  Established in 2012, the AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize highlights exceptional research in topology/geometry by a woman early in her career.

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• 2020 Rutgers Mathematics Ph.D. Jinyoung Park was named one of the three recipients of the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes by the Breakthrough Foundation.  This prize is awarded annually to 3 women mathematicians who have recently completed their Ph.D.'s and obtained important results.  The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Anne Wojcicki, with prizes ranging up to $3,000,000 in value.  The name honors the late Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics.

  Jinyoung studied under the direction of Rutgers Prof. Jeffry Kahn and was partially supported by the Sean and Janice Pattwell Fellowship while a student at Rutgers.  Her research is in discrete mathematics.  While a student she coauthored a paper with Professors Kahn and Bhargav Narayanan, as well as fellow graduate student Keith Frankston, proving the Fractional Kahn-Kalai conjecture.  In later joint work, she proved the full Kahn-Kalai conjecture.  Congratulations to Jinyoung!!

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• Joel Lebowitz, the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics, has been awarded the 2022 Dirac Medal by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, one of the very top honors in mathematical physics.

  The award goes to Joel, Elliot Lieb, and David Ruelle, "for groundbreaking and mathematically rigorous contributions to the understanding of the statistical mechanics of classical and quantum physical systems".  David Ruelle was also a member of our department for many years .

  Rutgers is also the home of other winners of the Dirac Medal -- including Mathematics Graduate Faculty member Greg Moore.  More information can be found here: ICTP - 2022 ICTP Dirac Medal Winners Announced.

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• Joel Lebowitz, the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics, has been awarded the 2022 Dirac Medal by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, one of the very top honors in mathematical physics.

  The award goes to Joel, Elliot Lieb, and David Ruelle, "for groundbreaking and mathematically rigorous contributions to the understanding of the statistical mechanics of classical and quantum physical systems".  David Ruelle was also a member of our department for many years .

  Rutgers is also the home of other winners of the Dirac Medal -- including Mathematics Graduate Faculty member Greg Moore.  More information can be found here: ICTP - 2022 ICTP Dirac Medal Winners Announced.

  Emeritus Professor Eduardo Sontag was awarded the 2022 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, which is the highest recognition in control theory and engineering in the US.  The citation reads “For pioneering contributions to stability analysis and nonlinear control, and for advancing the control theoretic foundations of systems biology.

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• Julia Shneidman (class of 2023) has been awarded a 2022 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious national undergraduate scholarships.  She is one of four students in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences to win this award. 

  In addition, eighteen seniors completed the extensive requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree (as opposed to our usual B.A. degree), the largest number ever.  Anna K. Antal, Colin J. Fan, Joseph R. Durie, Tai Wai Hu, Ryan A. Jensen, Sangjun Ko, Samuel E. Leigh, Ephraim J. Linder, Jason Luo, Kailash A. Raman, Ezra G. Seidel, Christopher R. Shafer, Christopher A. Taglieri, Victor C. Zhang, and Qian Zhou graduated with Highest Honors in Mathematics.  Sofia Shvaiko and David Xue graduated with High Honors in Mathematics, and Aaron J. Scheiner graduated with Honors in Mathematics.

  Seven additional seniors graduated with Honors in Mathematics:  Kaushik Bhatacharya, Ethan E. Febinger, Rohan Jayanth, Rakshay S. Kanthadai, Daniel Twili, Richard R. Wen, and Mary L. Zsolway.

  Nine senior prizes were awarded, five by the Department and four on the recommendation of the Department:

  Colin Fan, the Kenneth and Rosalind Wolfson Annual Award for Academic Excellence in Mathematics;

  Anna Antal, the Joseph P. Bradley Memorial Prize in Mathematics;

  Christopher Taglieri, the Lawrence Corwin Memorial Mathematics Prize;

  Sarah Catovic, the Mathematics Education Prize;

  Priya Patel, the Hannah Hoyt Prize;

  Sophiia Shvaiko, the Richard Morris Award;

  Nikitah Nyangoro, the Pi Mu Epsilon Prize;

  Christopher Shafer, the Jacqueline B. Lewis Award.

  Four additional prizes are awarded to students before their senior year, three by the Department and one on the recommendation of the Department:

  George Tsoukalas, the John Bogart Prize;

  Julia Shneidman, the Tilla Weinstein Award;

  Andrew Krapivin, the David Martin Weiss Memorial Award;

  Amy Flather the Katharine Hazard Prize.

  Many members of our faculty have also been recognized by the university for their contributions to undergraduate education over the years, and this year is no different: Sheila Tabanli was selected as an OASIS fellow. 

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• 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 p^aq^b 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 Mathematics at Rutgers.

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• 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.

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• Po-Lam Yung, of Australian National University, has been named one of the winners of the 2021 Ambrosetti Medal for "his work regarding fundamental properties of Sobolev spaces." Po-Lam held a postdoctoral Hill Assistant Professorship at Rutgers from 2010 to 2013.

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• 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. 

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• Rutgers Mathematics Department Associate Professor Chi Li has been invited to speak in the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).  The ICM, held every four years, is the premier international conference in mathematics, and an invitation to speak is a significant honor.  It is especially notable that Professor Li was selected as a speaker for both Section 4 on Algebraic and Complex Geometry, and Section 5 on Geometry.

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• The photography of Math Department Distinguished Professor Simon Thomas is highlighted on the SAS website.  Great pictures, Simon!

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• 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 chapter contacted every undergraduate class instructor with AWM information and made (virtual) recruiting visits to over ten classes. As a result, the chapter doubled its membership. The chapter partnered with the Rutgers Math Club on an REU panel discussion and an REU application workshop; and with Rutgers Math Discord to host a panel discussion on gender in mathematics (featuring six outside speakers) for Women’s History Month. In addition to these achievements, the chapter engaged in a diversity of innovative activities throughout the year: weekly lunches, a game night, a screening of the documentary Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani; and a panel discussion featuring mathematicians with non-traditional careers. Especially impressive was the idea to have a biweekly book club featuring Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil. The chapter was able to design and run many of these events without requiring funding; but they were also successful in securing funding from the Rutgers Graduate Student Association, the Rutgers Mathematics Department, and pledges from mathematics faculty. The chapter is congratulated for this outstanding work reflecting the AWM mission that will sustain and grow their chapter going forward.

  The Math Department congratulates the  chapter members, especially the leaders, Corrine Yap (President), Yael Davidov (Vice President and Treasurer) and Tamar Lichter Blanks (Secretary), and the Faculty advisor, Distinguished Professor Fioralba Cakoni for building a thriving AWM chapter at Rutgers.

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• Rutgers Math Department Ph.D. student, Tamar Lichter Blanks has been named  as the 2021 Mass Media Fellow, of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) as part of the broader Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship program organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  This program aims to  improve public understanding of science and technology by placing advanced undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate science, mathematics, and engineering students in media outlets nationwide. She will spend 10 weeks this summer as a writer for The Conversation, a news organization that publishes articles penned by academic experts and edited by journalists.  

  Tamar is a PhD candidate in the Mathematics Department. Her research is in abstract algebra, which is a branch of mathematics that is about understanding symmetry and structure. She first became involved in science communication as an undergraduate student at CUNY Queens College, where she wrote a “Math in Plain English” column for a school publication called QC Voices. “I am passionate about sharing the conceptual side of math – which is really a jumble of puzzles, patterns, and logical thinking – and about helping people feel welcome in math and science in general.”

  Tamar arrived at Rutgers in 2017. She is a recipient of the highly competitive Presidential Fellowship from Rutgers University’s Office of the Chancellor. Presidential Fellowships are used to recruit Rutgers University’s most outstanding graduate student candidates. Only a limited number are offered each year and students go through a rigorous selection process. Shortly after her arrival, her academic prowess and commitment to strengthening the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise was recognized by a prestigious three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Her previous faculty mentor, Steve Miller praised Tamar effusively, sharing that they recently wrote a paper together which was accepted to the international Post-Quantum Crytography conference, which is being held in South Korea. Her presentation, “Generating Cryptographically-Strong Random Lattice Bases and Recognizing Rotations of Z^n” is based on the paper. This conference addresses the concern of post-quantum cryptography rendering our existing privacy and encryption protections useless and focuses on techniques that will withstand this feared development. 

  Outside of the academic realm, Tamar’s desire to help others feel welcome in math is evidenced through her involvement in the Mathematics Graduate Student-Faculty Liaison Committee, which coordinates and runs the open house for recruitment, welcoming the class of entering new students. She is actively involved with coordinating activities with the Ph.D. students and policies that impact them. Tamar has also continued to do math outreach to students at Midreshet Shalhevet High School, some of whom have gone on to do summer projects with Rutgers mathematics faculty.

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• 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”.

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• 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, Mingyang Ma, Thomas Murrills, and Xiang Yao are graduating with High Honors in Mathematics, and Adriana Scanteianu and Stephanie D. Zhou are graduating with Honors in Mathematics.

  Ten additional seniors are graduating with Honors in Mathematics:  Timon A. Dauser, Noah Green, Stephen Greenberg, Zaynab Khan, Tianyi Luo, Daniel C. Wang, Michael S. Wang, Michael Wu, Danni Xu, and Yongqi Zhou.

  Eight senior prizes are being awarded, five by the Department and four on the recommendation of the Department:

  • Nicholas C. McConnell, the Kenneth and Rosalind Wolfson Annual Award for Academic Excellence in Mathematics;
  • Ozan Acikgoz, the Joseph P. Bradley Memorial Prize in Mathematics;
  • Olu Olorode, the Lawrence Corwin Memorial Math Prize;
  • Benjamin Cardwell, the Mathematics Education Prize;
  • Adriana Scanteianu, the Hannah Hoyt Prize;
  • Nikita Sachdeva, the Richard Morris Award;
  • Danni Xu, the Pi Mu Epsilon Prize;
  • Olu Olorode, the Jacqueline B. Lewis Award.

  Four additional prizes are awarded to students before their senior year, three by the Department and one on the recommendation of the Department:

  • Anna Antal,the John Bogart Prize;
  • Colin Fan, the Tilla Weinstein Award;
  • George Tsoukalas, the David Martin Weiss Memorial Award;
  • Grace Finlayson, the Katharine Hazard Prize.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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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• Professor Siddhartha Sahi has been selected to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.  The citation for his selection reads:  For contributions to harmonic analysis and representation theory of real reductive groups, algebraic combinatorics, probability, mathematical physics and statistics.

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• The Math Department is proud to announce that Distinguished Professor Joel Lebowitz has been selected to received the 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society.  The citation for the prize will read "“for seminal contributions to nonequilibrium and equilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular, studies of large deviations in nonequilibrium steady states and rigorous analysis of Gibbs equilibrium ensembles."

  Professor Lebowitz is the George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers University, and is the Director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences Research.

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• Math Part-time lecturer John Kerrigan, together with Physics and Astronomy Professors Geraldine Cochran and Roy Montalvo have been awarded a grant  "Transitioning Active Learning and Engagement-based, Introductory STEM Recitations to Online Instruction" as part of the Provost's Innovations in Education program.

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• Rutgers University Distinguished Professor Yanyan Li was awarded a 2020 Simons Fellowship.  This award provides for the extension of a one semester research sabbatical to a full year sabbatical.  This was one of 40 awards made nationwide to mathematicians on the basis of their research accomplishments and proposed research.

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• The Department of Mathematics is pleased to recognize those of its majors who are being acknowledged in 2020 with departmental honors and prizes.

   

  Six seniors are completing the extensive requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree.   Victor Chen and Ping Lin are graduating with Highest Honors in Mathematics.  Adeeb Kabir, Luke Schroeder, Valeriy Sergeev and Zhigang Wu are graduating with High Honors in Mathematics.

   

  Nine additional seniors are graduating with Honors in Mathematics:  

  Rebecca Claffey, Hannah Fechtner, Adam Jamil, Brian Lai, Salman Manzoor, Daniel Milo, Thomas O’Shaughnessy, Vinay Ravinder, and Yasa Syed.

   

  Nine seniors are being awarded prizes, five by the Department and four on the recommendation of the Department:

  Victor Chen, the Kenneth and Rosalind Wolfson Annual Award for Academic Excellence in Mathematics;

  Adeeb Kabir, the Joseph P. Bradley Memorial Prize in Mathematics;

  Yasa Syed and Thomas O’Shaughnessy, the Lawrence Corwin Memorial Math Prize;

  Alya Bukhari, the Mathematics Education Prize;

  Andrea Wu, the Hannah Hoyt Prize;

  Yating Liu, the Richard Morris Award;

  Alya Bukhari, the Pi Mu Epsilon Prize;

  Thomas O’Shaughnessy, the Jacqueline B. Lewis Award.

   

  Four additional prizes are awarded to students before their senior year, three by the Department and one on the recommendation of the Department:

  Nicholas McConnell, the John Bogart Prize;

  Ozan Acikgoz, the Tilla Weinstein Award;

  Colin Fan, the David Martin Weiss Memorial Award;

  Isabella Pham, the Katharine Hazard Prize.

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• Congratulations to Professor Greg Moore, professor of physics and Board of Governors Professor, New High Energy Theory Center, department of physics and astronomy, on his 2020 election to the National Academy of Sciences.  Professor Moore is also a member of  the graduate faculty in mathematics.  His research focuses on mathematical physics, with an emphasis on string theory, M-theory, and gauge theories more generally, and emphasizes underlying mathematical structures and applications to and from modern mathematics. 

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• Rutgers undergraduate student Yuexing Hao received a "Meritorious Winner" award in the 2020 Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling.  Yuexing.  Professor Triet Pham of the Mathematics Department served as Yuexing's faculty advisor for the contest.

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• The Mathematics Department congratulates the twenty Rutgers University-New Brunswick undergraduate participants in the 80th annual William Lowell Putnam Examination.  The William Lowell Putnam Examination is the premier annual undergraduate mathematics competition in the United States and Canada.  In the December 2019 competition, the Rutgers team of Nicholas McConnell, Michael Wang, and Jianning Yang finished 24th out of 570 teams.   All three of the team members finished in the top 10% of the 4,229 participating students.

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• Distinguished Professor Xiaojun Huang has been selected the 2020 Chair Montel from Laboratoire Dieudonné in Nice France.  In connection with this award, a scientific conference Dynamics, SCV and CR geometry will be held from June 15th to June 19th 2020.

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• Four Rutgers undergraduates, Phuoc Ho, Ernest Lin, Peter Sourbis and Tiancheng Sun, have been selected as winners of the The Guardian life Insurance Company of America Actuarial Mathematics Award.  This is award goes to outstanding students in the Rutgers Department of Mathematics Actuarial Mathematics Option who have passed one or more of the actuarial exams of  the Society of Actuaries.

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• The Math Department joins the international mathematical community in congratulating Rutgers Distinguished Visiting Professor Haim Brezis on his 75th birthday.  Two scientific meetings are being held this summer in recognition of his lifetime of contributions to mathematical research and service to the mathematical community.  The Center for Mathematical Sciences of the Technion will host the conference New Perspectives in nonlinear PDE from June 2 to June 6, 2019 and Beijing Normal University will host the International Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Applications from July 1-3, 2019.

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• The Math Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Habib Fourti (Faculty of Science of Monastir, Tunisia) and Dr. Ignace Aristide Minlend (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Senegal) are the winners of the 2019-2020 Professor Abbas Bahri Excellence Fellowships. These fellowships will provide support for both scientists to be research visitors at the Department for two to three months during the Spring semester 2020. Both recipients will receive supplemental travel support from The Rutgers Center for Nonlinear Analysis.

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• The Mathematics Department is proud to announce that Teaching Instructor Professor Joseph Gaudagni and Graduating Ph.D. student Matthew Charnley have been chosen as 2019 recipients of School of Arts and Sciences Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

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• The Department of Mathematics is proud to announce our 2019   departmental graduation honors and other prizes.  This year marks the largest number of students ever receiving such awards.

  Twelve seniors are completing the extensive requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree:  Amnon Attali, Simon Bird, Hyeri Cho, Cecelia Higgins, Steve Hsu, Anton Maliev, Rahul Ilango, Roberta Shapiro, and Michael Zlatin are graduating with Highest Honors in Mathematics.  Gabriel Eiseman, Heman Gandhi, and Scott Harman are graduating with High Honors in Mathematics.

  Six additional seniors are graduating with Honors in Mathematics:  Gihyen Eom, Bill Lee, Eli Minkin, Yuzhe Ni, Rose Nixon, and Charlotte Singer.

  One senior is graduating with Honors in Biomathematics:  Samantha Sun.

  Nine seniors are being awarded prizes, eight by the Department and one on the recommendation of the Department:

  Hyeri Cho, is winner of the Kenneth and Rosalind Wolfson Annual Award for Academic Excellence in Mathematics (for a graduating senior majoring in Mathematics)

  Rahul Ilango and Roberta Shapiro, the Joseph P. Bradley Memorial Prize in Mathematics (for  graduating senior for outstanding performance in mathematics.)

  Scott Harman and Cecelia Higgins, the Lawrence Corwin Memorial Math Prize (for graduating seniors with distinguished records in Mathematics courses)

  Charlotte Singer, the Hannah Hoyt Senior Prize in Mathematics (For an SAS or Douglass Residential College senior woman who has excelled in mathematics.)

  Rose Nixon, the Richard Morris Award (For an SAS or Douglass Residential College senior woman with the highest GPA in Math courses)

  Evan Nielo, the Mathematics Education Prize;

  Elizabeth Dreifus, the Pi Mu Epsilon Prize (awarded by the Douglass Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon).

  Four additional prizes are awarded to students before their senior year, three by the Department and one on the recommendation of the Department:

  Victor Chen, the John Bogart Prize for excellence as a Mathematics major

  Nicholas McConnell, the Tilla Weinstein Award for outstanding performance in Mathematics

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• More than 20 Rutgers undergraduates participated in the  2019 Garden State Undergraduate Mathematics Conference and New Jersey Undergraduate Mathematics Competition  on Saturday April 13 at Raritan Valley Community College.    

  Rutgers fielded four teams of three students each in a field of 28 teams from 14 different institutions, and Rutgers teams occupied the top three slots in the scoring:

  First Place:  Amnon Attali, Roberta Shapiro and Mik Zlatin

  Second Place:  Gabriel Eiseman, Scott Harman, and Anton Maliev

  Third Place:  Colin Fan, Brian Lai, and Danni Xu.

   Another Rutgers team  Valeriy Sergeev, Xiang Yao, and Larry Frolov  finished in the top half of all teams.

  Our participants also ranked very highly in terms of individual scores: Gabriel Eiseman tied another student for the second highest score, and Roberta Shapiro, Mik Zlatin, and Colin Fan were part of a five-way tie for the next highest score.

  In the undergraduate research presentation portion of the meeting, two of six talks were given by Rutgers students:

   Anton Maliev (Pattern Avoidance in Permutations) and Roberta Shapiro (The Curve Complex:  Bridging Topology and Algebra).  Roberta earned one of two best presentation awards.

  Four of our students participated in gave excellent poster presentations about their research Alya Bukhari and Jennifer Hoffman (LU Decompositions, Q-Series and Partition Identities), Amanda Liyanaarachchi (One-parameter Generalizations of Little Goellnitz Identities), and Dale Mack (Enumeration of Tic-tac-toe-like Games). , Amanda Liyanaarachchi was one of the four award-winners for posters.

  Rutgers participation was sponsored by Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Undergraduate Mathematics Honors Committee Michael Beals, Assistant Teaching Professors David Molnar and Matthew Russell, and Graduate Student Matthew Charnley, who joins the faculty in the fall 2019 as a  Assistant Teaching Professor.

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• Rutgers Mathematics graduate student William Cole Franks was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award of the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies, which is "awarded to a student who demonstrates the highest possible level of academic excellence and achievement".  Franks is completing his Ph.D. in Mathematics in May 2019, and will begin a three year postdoctoral instructorship at MIT in the Fall of 2019.

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• An international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Conformal Field Theory and Related Topics will be held at the Chren Institute of Mathematics at Nankai University from June 10-14, 2019. This meeting has been organized in honor of the 60th birthday of Rutgers University Professor Yi-Zhi Huang, a renowned  expert in this area.

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• We are proud to announce that three members of the Mathematics Department Staff have been selected for School of Arts and Sciences Staff Excellence awards.  Alyssa Siegel, who manages the Mathematics Department instructional offices  received an individual excellence award,  and Sunita Jagtiani-Sanghvi and Ana Mastrogiovanni received a team award for their outstanding service to the Mathematical Finance MS program.

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• The PROFESSOR ABBAS BAHRI EXCELLENCE FELLOWSHIP for GRADUATE and EARLY CAREER RESEARCH in MATHEMATICS is established to honor the memory of Professor Abbas Bahri and promote his legacy through support for graduate student research in advanced Mathematics.  

  A citizen of the world, Professor Bahri was born in Tunis, received his early education in Tunisia before moving alone as a teenager to pursue his higher education degrees in Paris. Professor Bahri taught in Tunis, Paris, Chicago, New York, and taught at Rutgers for three decades. At Rutgers, Professor Bahri received the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence, the highest honor for outstanding research. Known for his teaching and research expertise, Professor Bahri shared his knowledge with colleagues and students at Rutgers and at many academies throughout the world. A strong believer that free rational thinking and scientific advancement transcend cultural differences and can bring peace, progress, democracy, and social justice in the world, and proud of his Arab heritage, Professor Bahri promoted international and cultural exchanges with several countries, and in particular with Tunisia and the Arab World.

  CRITERIA for ELIGIBILITY - Awards are granted to Rutgers and/or international Ph.D students or early career research visitors in recognition of excellence in research and/or potential research impact of the proposed project. Preferences will be given to projects that promote international exchange among mathematicians, especially those that bring a positive impact to mathematical research in regions where funding for mathematical research is less available. Further preference should be given to Ph.D students or early career research visitors interested in Variational Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and in particular the ones Lacking Compactness. But applications from all areas of mathematics which are likely to result in and benefit from substantive mathematical interactions with our faculty will be seriously considered.

  AVAILABLE FUNDS  - The source of funding for this fellowship derives from the Professor Abbas Bahri Endowment for Research in Mathematics, established by Diana Bahri-Nunziante, wife of Professor Abbas Bahri, under the auspices of the Rutgers Foundation, with contributions from family and friends of Professor Abbas Bahri.  Additional source of funding may come from separate annual gifts to the Math Department, see the How to Donate section below for details.

  The annual distribution of the fellowship fund is made in accordance with the policy of the Rutgers Foundation, and is estimated about 4,300 USD based on current projections. The aforementioned distribution may be augmented if additional contributions are made to the endowed fund, or may be combined with potential, separate annual gifts of variable amounts, or other sources.

  MODES of AWARD - The award can be made to one or multiple recipients. It is anticipated that an award could support the visit of an international awardee to the Mathematics Department of Rutgers University, New Brunswick for a period of one month during either the fall or the spring semester (possibly longer if additional funding is available), or support a Rutgers awardee to give presentations or lectures at a conference or workshop, or to engage in scientific collaboration; an award can also be given to a Rutgers student to carry out high quality dissertation work locally at Rutgers.

  Each year, the number of awardees, and the type and the duration of the support provided will depend on the combined amounts of the actual annual distribution of the endowed fund and the potential separate annual gifts.

  APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS - Applicants should submit the following documents by April 1, 2025, although there is some limited flexibility in this deadline.

  1. Brief Research Statement (2-3 pages on the status and objectives of your research project(s)).
  2. CV.
  3. Application Form
  4. Visiting international applicants should arrange to send in two letters of recommendation from mathematicians who are in a good position to comment on their research projects and potential.
  5. In order for an international visiting awardee to have a productive research exchange during the visit, we request that external applicants identify one or more of our graduate faculty member(s) as a potential mentor during the visit. We request that external applicants describe potential mentors in their research statement, and we encourage them to directly contact one or more of our graduate faculty member(s) about the mentorship relation.

  Applications and Letters of Recommendations should be submitted to the Awards Committee, Professor Abbas Bahri Excellence Fellowship for Graduate Research in Mathematics via email to   with subject Abbas Bahri Fellowship or regular mail to

  Department of Mathematics
  110 Frelinghuysen Road, Hill Center
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
  USA

  Information for international applicants: The cost for visiting Rutgers varies depending on the type of accommodation one can arrange, which may also depend on the duration of the visit. Some international visiting students have managed with about $2,500 per month to cover their rental and food. We will provide some information on possible local accommodation, and may be able to provide some help in identifying and setting up accommodation. Health insurance is expected, and its cost also varies. The U.S. Consulate may have additional fund requirements for the visa application.

  LIST OF PAST RECIPIENTS of the ABBAS BAHRI EXCELLENCE FELLOWSHIP

  • INAUGURAL AWARDS 2019 - 2020:
    • Dr. Habib Fourti (Faculty of Science of Monastir, Tunisia).
    • Dr. Ignace Aristide Minlend (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Senegal – now Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at The University of Douala, Cameroon, and on a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers for 2021-2022).
  • AWARDS 2022 - 2023:
    • Dr. Ahmed Attar (University Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Algeria).
    • Dr. Pierre Aime Feulefack (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Senegal).
  • AWARD 2023 - 2024: 
    
    • Liuwei Gong, a Doctoral candidate in the Rutgers Mathematics PhD program writing his dissertation under the supervision of YanYan Li and expecting to graduate in May, 2024.
  • AWARDS 2024 - 2025:
    • Dr. Abdelrazek Dieb (Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret, Algeria).
    • Dr. Remi Yvant Temgoua (University of Dschang, Cameroon). 
  • AWARD 2025 - 2026: 
    
    • Xuanlin Shu, a Doctoral candidate in the Rutgers Mathematics PhD program writing his dissertation under the supervision of YanYan Li and expecting to graduate in May, 2026.

  HOW TO DONATE

  Donations to increase the annual award amount of the Abbas Bahri Excellence Fellowship are of two types:

  1. Separate annual gifts to the Math Department;
  2. Donation to The Professor Abbas Bahri Endowment for Research in Mathematics.

  Donations of the first type are 100% used to augment the fellowship award, while donations of the second type become part of the perpetual endowed fund and only the earnings portion is distributed annually for the fellowship awards.

  1. Separate annual gifts to the Math Department can be made in two ways:
     • Online:
       • Open the page: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/896/giving19/interior.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=2138&bledit=1&dids=555
       • After filling the form open the menu “In Honor/In Memory”, then choose "In Honor" and in the Tribute's last name type "AB-Fellowship" (failing to do so precisely it would cause the gift not to augment the fellowship amount but to become part of the endowed fund or to be spent by the department in other ways)
       • Make us promptly aware of your gift by emailing to the three following addresses: , ,
     • By bank check to be sent to:
       • Mayka Benitez, Office of the Chair
         Department of Mathematics
         Hill Center
         110 Frelinghuysen Road
         Piscataway, NJ 08854
       • In the check memo you should type "Math Department Gift Fund / AB-Fellowship"
       • Make us promptly aware of your gift by emailing to the three following addresses: , ,
  2. Donations to the Professor Abbas Bahri Endowment for Research in Mathematics can be made following the instructions detailed in This Document.

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• Congratulations to  Ebru Toprak, who joins the Rutgers Mathematics Department this semester as Hill Assistant Professor, for receiving a  Dissertation Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics.  

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• The memorial to Felix Browder, compiled and edited by Haim Brezis, including numerous personal reminiscences, can be found here.

The memorial to Felix Browder, compiled and edited by Haim Brezis, including numerous personal reminiscences, can be found here.

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• Rutgers University Distinguished Visiting Professor Saharon Shelah has been awarded the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.  The citation of the prize reads "or his outstanding contributions to mathematical logic, in particular to model theory, in which his classification of theories in terms of so-called stability properties has fundamentally transformed the field of research of this discipline"

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• The Mathematics Department congratulates Professors Fioralba Cakoni, Paul Feehan and Vladimir Retakh, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Falk, for their selection as 2019 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.  The citations for these selections are as follows.

  Fioralba Cakoni, For contributions to analysis of partial differential equations especially in inverse scattering theory

  Richard Falk, For contributions to numerical analysis and for service to the mathematical community

  Paul Feehan, For contributions to gauge theory

  Vladimir Retkah, For contributions to noncommutative algebra and noncommutative algebraic geometry

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• The Math Department is very pleased to welcome the Fall 2018 semester participants in the Mathematics Department Visiting Students program. This semester we are hosting undergraduates from Beijing Normal University, Beijing Institute of Technology and University of Science and Technology of China. The program is directedby Rutgers Distinguished ProfessorYanyan Li.

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• Rutgers Professor Emerita has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics for "For her remarkable achievements as a teacher, scholar, and administrator; for her service to the profession, as AWM treasurer and beyond; and for her important contributions to mathematics education through her talks, writing, and work with K–12 teachers."

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• The paper "Approximating Edit Distance Within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time", by Diptarka Chakraborty, Debarati Das, Elazar Goldenberg, Michal Koucky, and Rutgers Distinguished Professor Michael Saks, received a best paper award at the 59th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.

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• The Rutgers Mathematics Department improved its ranking to 16th among the world's mathematics departments in the  2018 Academic World Ranking of Universities, rising from 19th in 2017.

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• Giovanni Gallavotti, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers, has been awarded the 2018 Poincare Prize of the International Association of Mathematical Physics.  The citation for the prize states: "Giovanni Gallavotti is honored for his outstanding contributions to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, classical mechanics, and chaotic systems, including, in particular, the renormalization theory for interacting fermionic systems and the fluctuation relation for the large deviation functional of entropy production."

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• Rutgers Mathematics Distinguished Professor Hector Sussmann was awarded the 2017 Tullio Levi-Civita Prize. This annual prize is awarded by the International Research Center for Mathematics & Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS) of the Università dell’Aquila  to recognize outstanding research in Mathematics and Mechanics.  

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• Shubhangi Saraf, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,  was awarded a 2018  Alfred Sloan Fellowship.  The Sloan Fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

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• The Mathematics Department congratulates the Rutgers University-New Brunswick undergraduate participants in the William Lowell Putnam Examination for their excellent performance.  The William Lowell Putnam Examination is the premier annual undergraduate mathematics competition in the United States and Canada.  In the December 2017 competition, the Rutgers team of Ernest Chiu, Michael Wang and Terence Coelho finished 12th out of 575 teams.   There were several outstanding individual performances including Ernest Chiu (28th overall out of over 4500 participants), Michael Wang (171st overall), Terence Coelho (207th overall), Steve Hsu (397th overall) and Anton Maliev (439th overall).  Professors Swastik Kopparty and Shubhangi Saraf were faculty advisors for the Putnam competitors.

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• The Math Department is very pleased to welcome the group of undergraduate mathematics students from Beijing Normal University, who are spending the Spring 2018 semester at Rutgers as part of the Mathematics Department's new Visiting Student Program.  The program  is directed by Rutgers Distinguished Professor Yanyan Li.  

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• Retakh Fest, a conference on noncommutative structures, cluster algebras, and their applications,  in honor of Rutgers Professor Vladimir Retakh, will be held in Angers, France, from June 25 to June 30, 2018.

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• The Math Department congratulates Professor Liping Liu, for his  selection as winner of the 2018 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.  This annual award is awarded by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

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• The Rutgers Mathematics Department is ranked 19th among the world's mathematics departments in the  2017 Academic World Ranking of Universities.

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• Professors Lev Borisov, Feng Luo and Stephen Miller were named as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Class of 2018.  The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/ams-fellows

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• Work of Maryna Viazovska  partly joint with Cohn, Kumar, Radchenko and Stephen Miller of Rutgers University on sphere packing in dimensions 8 and 24 has been featured in Quanta Magazine.

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• Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Pham Huu Tiep, who has recently arrived in the department and holds the Joshua Barlaz Professorship of Mathematics.  Professor Tiep recently contributed to solving the 60-year-old Ore conjecture alongside professors from New Zealand, London and Jerusalem.  As a result of this and other accomplishments, Professor Tiep will deliver an invited lecture at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, the largest and most prestigious conference in the field of mathematics, which meets once every four years and hosted by the International Mathematical Union.

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• Third Hausdorff Medal 2017

   The third Hausdorff medal is awarded to Maryanthe Malliaris and Saharon Shelah for their work outlined in the paper:

  General topology meets model theory, on p and t. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110 (2013), no. 33, 13300-13305.

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• Congratulations to former Hill Assistant Professor Eduardo Teixeira who has received the 2017 Ramanujan Prize. 

  https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-ramanujan-prize/the-ramanujan-prize-winners.aspx

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• International Association for Quantitative Finance( IAQF) announced that Rutgers, UC Berkeley, and Baruch College NY share the honor of having the three winning student teams in the 2017 IAQF Academic Affiliate Membership Student Competition. MSMF's ACE team of six students -- Zongsheng Sun (team captain), Lingfeng Li, Haidong Gu, Xinrong Song, Lin Du, and Bowen Long were mentored by Sunita Jagtiani, our Director for Career Services Management, and Triet Pham, Teaching Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

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• Congratulations to former Rutgers Assistant Professor Maksym Radziwill who together with K. Matomaki won the SASTRA-Ramanujan Award for 2016.

  Kaisa Matomaki

  The 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan prize is for outstanding contributions by young mathematicians to areas influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. It will be jointly awarded to Kaisa Matomaki of University of Turku, Finland and Maksym Radziwill of McGill University, Canada.

  Announcement

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• Professor Steve Safran is the 2017 honoree of the School of Arts and Sciences Educational Opportunity Fund Program.

  His award will be presented at the Senior Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, May 9th at 4 pm in the Livingston Student Center.

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• Congratulations to Rutgers University 2017 Simons Fellows in Mathematics: Jeff Kahn, Alex Kontorovich and Natasa Sesum. Simons Foundation Announcement

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• Joel Lebowitz's annual Statistical Mechanical conferences featured in Physics World.

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• Francois Treves has been awarded the Bergman Prize from the American Mathematical Society.

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• Michael Saks has been selected as an ACM Fellow.

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• Henryk Iwaniec and John Friedlander were awarded the 2017 AMS Doob Prize.

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• Three Rutgers New Brunswick faculty are newly elected 2017 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society: Sagun Chanillo "for contributions to partial differential equations and geometric analysis", Alex Kontorovich" for contributions to analytic number theory and for mathematical exposition", and Xiaochun Rong" for contributions to Riemannian geometry".

  

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• Xiaojun Huang has been invited to present the Monroe Martin lecture at John Hopkins in 2017 on Complex Geometry. He was also invited to give the Roever lectures in Mathematics in Washington University in 2016.