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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected Spencer Bloch, Robert
Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor and Robert A. Fefferman,
Max Mason Distinguished Service Professor and Dean of the Physical
Sciences Division as Fellows.
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Congratulations to Wilhelm Schlag, who was awarded the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship this year.
- David Vogan, MIT, will give two lectures in the Undergraduate Lecture
Series in Mathematics. The first lecture - the Cohen Prize Lecture -
on "Inflatable Mathematics: Schubert varieties and combinatorics" will be
on May 21 at 7:30 pm in the Barn (Ry 352). The second lecture - the
Departmental Colloquium - on "Calculating signatures of invariant
Hermitian forms" will be on May 22 at 4pm in E 206. For more information,
please see here.
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Congratulations to Hannah Alpert, who was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship. Over the past fifteen years, eight mathematics majors in the College
have won Goldwaters; Hannah is the first woman to have won over that
time period.
- Congratulations to Antonio Montalban, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Mathematics, for being awarded the American
Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship.
- Congratulations to Luis Silvestre, Assistant Professor in the Department
of Mathematics, for being awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship.
Among the total 20 recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships in Mathematics
nation-wide this year, we note with satisfaction two recent alumni,
Dan Margalit (Ph.D 2003) and Justin Holmer (Ph.D 2004) and one former
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Julien Dubedat.
We also extend our congratulations to our colleague Mathias Drton,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, who was awarded the Sloan
Research Fellowship in Mathematics as well.
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The 2009 Highbridge prize for the best preprint by a graduate student was
awarded to Swarnendu Datta. Damir Dzhafarov was the runner up.
The 2009 Kowalsky Fellowships were awarded to Elizabeth Townsend Beazley
and to Rachel Epstein. Congratulations to all!
- Congratulations to Tom Church, winner of the 2008
Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Please see
this link
- Congratulations to Travis Schedler, recipient of the five-year AIM
fellowship. Please see
here
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Mark Kisin, Professor of Mathematics, was selected Fellow of the Royal
Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth.
Please read
the announcement on the RS page.
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John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits received the 2008 Abel Prize.
Thompson received his PhD from the Department of Mathematics of The
University of Chicago for a thesis supervised by Saunders Mac Lane.
Thompson was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago between
1962 and 1970.
- The winners of the 2008 Paul R Cohen prize are:
Padraic Bartlett, David Coley,
Ilya Grigoriev, Ryan Johnson, Junehyuk Jung, Jenya Sapir.
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Alexander Beilinson, the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor
and Vladimir Dinfeld, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service
Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Chicago
have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Please see the AAAS
announcement and the
list
of members. Please read
here excerpts from an article in the Chronicle by Steven Koppes.
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Elizabeth Beazley is the winner of the 2008 PSCD teaching prize.
Hannah Bennett, Ian Biringer, Chris Conidis and Niles Johnson are the 2008
recipients of the Lawrence and Josephine Graves Prize.
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Congratulations to Qendrim Gashi, Irene Peng and Travis
Schedler who won Clay Liftoff Fellowships.
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Andrej Zlatoš, Assistant Professor in Mathematics has been selected to
receive a 2008 research fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Zlatoš works in nonlinear partial differential equations
and mathematical physics, with emphasis on transport
phenomena in reaction-diffusion equations.
For more about the 2008 Sloan fellowships awarded to
Chicago faculty, see
this link.
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