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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...

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”.

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,...

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.

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, 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. 

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.

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 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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...