2022 doctoral candidate Alexander Petrov has been awarded a prestigious five year Clay Research Fellowship for his work on number theory. Petrov was advised by Mark Kisin. Clay Research Fellows are selected for their research achievements and their potential to...
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Professors Lauren Williams and Melanie Matchett Wood have both been asked to give invited talks at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia in July 2022. Professor Williams will give an Invited Lecture...
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Michael Hopkins--Department Chair and George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics--has been awarded the American Mathematical Society's Oscar Veblen Prize in Geometry for co-authorship of the paper “On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one” along with his...
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Harvard Emeritus Professor Benedict Gross and Don Zagier of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics have jointly received the 2021 Fudan-Zhonzhi Science Award for their formulation and proof of the Gross-Zagier formula, an important theorem and breakthrough in the field...
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Undergraduate Mathematics Concentrator David Abrahams won a silver medal in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke event in the Tokyo Paralympics. More from the Harvard Gazette
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