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Laura DeMarco finds psychedelic beauty in complex sequences

Why are there gaps in the asteroid belt? The answer can be found in dynamical systems, the branch of mathematics that deals with the evolution of chaotic systems over time....
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Lauren Williams Recipient of 2025 MacArthur Fellowship

Earlier today, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2025 MacArthur Fellows, recipients of the so-called “genius grant.” The Fellowship—including a generous stipend bestowed over the course...
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Fifteen Questions: Curtis T. McMullen on Shared Truths, Unsolved Problems, and How to Illustrate Infinity

The Cabot Professor of Mathematics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss life lessons from mathematics, the challenges of formulating good questions, and his work visualizing curved space. Professor Curtis...
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Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitors Program Will Bring Prominent Mathematicians to Harvard

The Department of Mathematics launched the Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitors Program earlier this year thanks to a new gift from William R. Hearst III ’72. Each year, the department...
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Two Harvard Graduate Students Awarded Inaugural Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics

Earlier this month, the Simons Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of its Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics. Among the graduate student names were those of Harvard’s own Anda-Sorana Tenie and...
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Harvard Math Senior Preceptor Janet Chen Receives Teaching Award

Janet Chen, a Harvard math senior preceptor, was awarded a 2025 Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Harvard Office of Undergraduate Education. The award is designed...
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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2024-2025

Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients! Alexander Prize Each year, this award recognizes a deserving student who will use the money for research and travel to math conferences....
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Math Professor Denis Auroux Awarded Harvard College Professorship

Denis Auroux, Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics, was one of five faculty members awarded a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching in fields ranging from high-dimensional geometry to...
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Harvard Math Graduate Named 2025 Hertz Fellow

Arav Karighattam, a '24 Harvard math graduate, is one of 19 chosen recipients of the 2025 Hertz Fellows. In its announcement, the Hertz Foundation emphasized his recent paper, in which...
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Harvard Math Professor Melanie Matchett Wood Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Melanie Matchett Wood, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). "It is a great honor to join so many of my mathematical...
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