[caption id="attachment_10081" align="alignleft" width="294"] This polaroid of Dick Gross served as his entry on the bulletin board of department faculty members, long before the specially designed and printed poster visitors of the Harvard Science Center can see today.[/caption] Dick Gross’...
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Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients! Captain Jonathan Fay Prize The annual award for the top theses of Harvard College’s graduating class. The recipient of the prize with a concentration in mathematics is Dhruv Goel ‘24 for his...
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It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons, on May 10, 2024, at the age of 86, in New York City. Read Full Article Here
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Melanie Matchett Wood—William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics and Director of Graduate Studies—becomes the first female faculty member of the Harvard Department of Mathematics to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “It is a great honor...
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Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 84th 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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