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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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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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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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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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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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