Melanie Matchett Wood

Melanie Matchett Wood wins $1M NSF Waterman Award

05/12/2021

Professor Melanie Matchett Wood has received the National Science Foundation's annual Alan T. Waterman award, which recognizes an outstanding early-career U.S. science or engineering researcher who demonstrates exceptional individual achievements in research in NSF-supported fields. Wood is the first woman...
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DeMarco Popa and Wood

Three New Professors Join Department

06/25/2020

Harvard Mathematics welcomes three new Professors to our Department in July: Laura DeMarco in Dynamical Systems, Mihnea Popa in Algebraic Geometry, and Melanie Matchett Wood in Number Theory. More on all three new Professors in The Harvard Gazette.
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2021 Friends of Math Thesis Prize: Kenz Kallal and Lux Zhao

05/04/2021

The Friends of Harvard Mathematics Undergraduate Thesis Prize is awarded annually for one or two exceptional undergraduate Senior Honors theses. In 2021 the Prize was awarded to Kenz Kallal for his thesis "The Arthur–Selberg trace formula and some applications to...
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#shutdownSTEM–10 June 2020

06/17/2020

In partnership with the Harvard Division of Science, the Mathematics Department used the call to #shutdownSTEM on 10 June to initiate a discussion of actions we can take, individually and collectively, to support racial equity and justice in our community,...
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Patrick Lopatto

Patrick Lopatto Receives Bok Undergraduate Teaching Award

06/08/2020

Patrick Lopatto, a 2020 Doctoral recipient in Mathematics, was named a recipient of the Harvard 2020 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. The role of graduate students in undergraduate education is central to the...
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