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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.  

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

Michael Saks has been selected as an ACM Fellow.

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

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".

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.

Congratulations to Henryk Iwaniec for receiving the inaugural Chancellor Award for Faculty Excellence.