2013
July
In July, our new colleague, Zhiwei Yun, will receive the 2012 Sastra Ramanujan Prize, given annually for outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced by Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Zhiwei is being awarded this prize for his “fundamental contributions to several areas that lie at the interface of representation theory, algebraic geometry and number theory.”
Lexing will receive his prize during the Annual SIAM meetings.
The full citation can be found here.
January
Maryam Mirzakhani has received the 2013 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. Presented every two years, the Satter Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to mathematics research by a woman in the preceding five years. Maryam is being honored for “her deep contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces.”
The prize was awarded on Thursday, January 10th at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. Details can be found here.
The same day, Persi Diaconis, along with his co-author Ron Graham, received the MAA’s 2013 Euler Book Prize for the book Magical Mathematics: the Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks. The Euler Book Prize is awarded to annually to an author or authors of an outstanding book about mathematics, and is intended to recognize well-written books with a positive impact on the public’s view of mathematics.
More on the MAA Euler Book Prize can be found here.
2012
August
On August 19th, at the opening ceremony of the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in Berlin, Professor Emmanuel Candès (with co-recipient Benjamin Recht) received the Lagrange Prize in optimization, awarded every three years jointly, by the Mathematical Optimization Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, for outstanding work in the area of continuous optimization. Professors Candès and Recht were honored for their paper, “Exact Matrix Completion via Convex Optimization”.
More information about the Lagrange prize can be found here.
July
Professor Simon Brendle wins the European Mathematical Society award at the 6th European Congress of Mathematics.
May
Kannan Soundararajan has received the 2011 Ostrowski Prize, awarded every two years to “a mathematician or group of mathematicians who have produced the best result in the field of pure mathematics or in the foundations of numerical mathematics.”
February
Professor Kannan Soundararajan wins the 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences
Professor Emmanuel Candès appointed inaugural holder of the Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics
January
Persi Diaconisi was awarded the Conant Prize for 2012 for his paper, “The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution.”
The prize was awarded on Thursday, January 5th, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. Information about the award can be found here.
2011
December
Robert Osserman, noted Stanford mathematician, dies at 84; to be remembered at April 20–21 gathering
November
Professor Kannan Soundararajan wins the 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences
Joseph Keller, professor emeritus of mathematics and mechanical engineering, awarded the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. He also retroactively received the 1999 physics prize.
October
Interviews with Persi Diaconis celebrating the release of his book Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
May
School of Humanities and Sciences profile of Szegö Assistant Professor Melanie Matchett Wood
2009
October
Kai Lai Chung, emeritus math professor, dies at 91; to be remembered at Nov. 6 gathering
2008
March
Stanford to help new Saudi university in applied math, computer science
2007
December
Sam Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dies at 83
March
Paul Cohen, emeritus professor and winner of world's top math prize, dies at 72
New interdisciplinary graduate-level course explores mathematics of the brain
January
Isolde Field, longtime staffer, dead at 81
2006
December
Gunnar Carlsson, Top Mathematicians Meet In Berkeley
Ravi Vakil, Stanford
Teacher, students revel in joy of high-level math
September
Daniel Bump, professor of mathematics, was awarded the Howard Vollum Award for Science
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