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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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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.  

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

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"

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...

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.

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."

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.

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.

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...

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.  

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.

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...