Harvard 2019 Putnam Competition Results
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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News Archive
Gabriel Goldberg Awarded Sacks Prize
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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Curtis McMullen’s Negatively Curved Crystals
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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Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj Awarded Alice T. Schafer Prize
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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Alexander Smith Awarded David Goss Prize
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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Gerald Sacks, 1933-2019
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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John Tate, 1925-2019
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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Notable honors received by our faculty
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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