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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Katherine Tung ’26, a Harvard math concentrator, is one of three chosen recipients of the 35th annual Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Alice T. Schafer Prizes for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman. The prize was established in...
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Naomi Sweeting, a '24 Harvard math Ph.D. graduate, is one of three chosen recipients of the ninth annual Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Dissertation Prize. The award, established in 2016, honors up to three outstanding Ph.D. dissertations presented by...
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