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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Mike Hopkins Gives Lecture at 2022 Abel Prize Celebration
Dr. Michael J. Hopkins, George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Harvard Department of Mathematics Chair, gave a lecture titled "The great wild manifold rodeo: Dennis Sullivan in...
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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2021-2022
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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Mark Kisin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
We are thrilled to announce that Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Director of Graduate Studies Mark Kisin is among sixteen Harvard faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and...
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Demystifying Math 55
By Anastasia Yefremova Few undergraduate level classes have the distinction of nation-wide recognition that Harvard University’s Math 55 has. Officially comprised of Mathematics 55A “Studies in Algebra and Group Theory”...
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Math Question Center helps undergraduates with PSets
If you're a Harvard University student taking an entry-level math course and you haven't heard of the Math Question Center (MQC) yet, you could be missing out on an essential...
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Brendan Kelly Appointed Director of Introductory Mathematics
We are happy to share that Dr. Brendan Kelly has been appointed Director of Introductory Mathematics. The newly formed position was created to support the tradition of excellence in the...
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Michael Simkin Answers n-Queens Problem
Michael Simkin, post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's CMSA, has an answer for the 150-year-old chess-based n-queens problem. An article on the n-queens problem and its answer is in The Harvard Gazette....
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Alexander Petrov Awarded Clay Research Fellowship
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...
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Lauren Williams and Melanie Matchett Wood to Give Invited Talks at ICM
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...
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