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Emmy Noether Takes Center Stage

Just over a year ago on a warm September Saturday, the Harvard Department of Mathematics and the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA) hosted a unique event celebrating the...
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Melanie Matchett Wood Recipient of 2022 MacArthur Fellowship

Earlier today, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2022 MacArthur Fellows, recipients of the so-called “genius grant.” The Fellowship—including a generous stipend bestowed over the course...
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Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka to Receive 2023 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research

Earlier this week, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded Harvard William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Peter Kronheimer and MIT Singer Professor of Mathematics Tomasz Mrowka the 2023 Steele Prize...
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Harvard Makes Strong Showing at 83rd Putnam Mathematical Competition

Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 83rd annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Over 3,400 students from over 450 institutions participated in the highly competitive exam...
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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2022-2023

Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients! Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard received a fund from which to grant...
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Harvard Professor Emeritus Shing-Tung Yau Awarded 2023 Shaw Prize

At a press conference in Hong Kong earlier this week, the Shaw Prize Foundation awarded the 2023 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in equal shares to Vladimir Drinfeld, Harry Pratt...
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Andrew Gleason in Black and White

Found Film Offers Glimpse of Department Past It was a business-as-usual day in the fall of 2022 when a small but meaningful piece of department history was unearthed while cleaning...
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The Human Nature of Mathematics

On Thursday, October 6, the Harvard Human Flourishing Program will bring Dr. Francis Su to Sever Hall to talk about mathematics for human flourishing. Su received his A.M and Ph.D....
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Department Profiles: Hakim J. Walker

Dr. Hakim Walker joined the Harvard Department of Mathematics as a preceptor in 2017. A graduate of Boston University and The George Washington University, he has received numerous teaching awards...
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Barry Mazur Awarded 2022 Chern Medal

Mazur received the award for his work in topology, arithmetic geometry, and number theory, and for his leadership and generosity in shaping the next generation of mathematicians. Earlier today at...
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