Lauren Williams, Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics and Sally Starling Seaver Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, was among 20 Harvard faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. "I was quite honored and a bit flabbergasted...
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Congratulations to Harvard math PhD graduate Si Ying Lee, currently Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University, for receiving the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize! Lee won the prize for her contributions to the theory of Shimura varieties. Popularly known...
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Congratulations to former Harvard math professor Dennis Gaitsgory, currently of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematic, for receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics! Gaitsgory won the prize for his central role in the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture,...
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Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 85th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Almost 4,000 students from over 477 institutions participated in the highly competitive exam administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) this past...
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Harvard William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Melanie Matchett Wood was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) earlier this month. She received the award for her research into arithmetic statistics and spanning probability, random...
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