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Harvard Professor Emeritus Shing-Tung Yau Awarded 2023 Shaw Prize

05/31/2023

At a press conference in Hong Kong earlier this week, the Shaw Prize Foundation awarded the 2023 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in equal shares to Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of...
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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2022-2023

05/22/2023

Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients! Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly...
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Harvard Makes Strong Showing at 83rd Putnam Mathematical Competition

03/02/2023

Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 83rd annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Over 3,400 students from over 450 institutions participated in the highly competitive exam administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) this past...
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Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka to Receive 2023 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research

12/16/2022

Earlier this week, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded Harvard William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Peter Kronheimer and MIT Singer Professor of Mathematics Tomasz Mrowka the 2023 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for their 1993 paper “Gauge...
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Melanie Matchett Wood Recipient of 2022 MacArthur Fellowship

10/12/2022

Earlier today, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2022 MacArthur Fellows, recipients of the so-called “genius grant.” The Fellowship—including a generous stipend bestowed over the course of five years with no conditions—is awarded annually to talented...
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