Dennis Gaitsgory, Herschel Smith Professor of Mathematics and Wilfried Schmid, Professor Emeritus, have both been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a...
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Our beloved senior preceptor, Jameel Al-Aidroos, passed away on March 18th. Jameel joined the department in the fall of 2008 after completing his doctorate at Berkeley. He had been teaching...
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Harvard's team of Sehun Kim '22, Sheldon Kieran Tan '23 and Franklyn Wang '22 placed second among 570 institutions in the 80th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the preeminent...
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Gabriel Goldberg, 2019 Harvard Mathematics Doctoral recipient, has been awarded the 2019 Sacks Prize by the Association for Symbolic Logic, an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic....
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From Harvard Magazine: In Norman Juster's children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth, the land of infinity can be reached by following a line drawn on the ground for all eternity, then...
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Harvard senior and mathematics concentrator Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj was awarded the 2020 Alice T. Schafer prize on Thursday, January 16 by the Association for Women in Mathematics at the Joint Math...
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Harvard Mathematics Department graduate student Alexander Smith, who is expected to receive his Ph.D. in 2020, was awarded the 2019 inaugural David Goss Prize in Number Theory at the JNT...
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It is with sadness that we have to announce that Gerald Sacks passed away on October 4th, 2019. Gerald Sacks was a logician who served as a professor at the...
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We have to share the sad news that our colleague John Tate passed away today, October 16, 2019. John Tate was a Professor at the Harvard mathematics department from 1954...
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Three notable honors our faculty have just received from the University: Lauren Williams has been named the Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics. Dennis Gaitsgory has been named the Herchel Smith...
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