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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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...