News & Announcements

The 2025 American Academy’s Members

The Department of Mathematics Congratulates Professor Ian Agol on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can read more here: New Academy Members elected in 2025.

2025 Samsung Ho-Am Prize Laureates

Recognition for the Ennoblement of the Human Sprit in Academics, The Arts, and Human Welfare

Congratulations to Professor Sug Woo Shin for being awarded a 2025 Samsung Ho-Am Prize!

More information about this award please visit: https://www.hoamfoundation.org/eng/award/thisyear.asp 

Professor Tony Feng named a Sloan Fellow

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Tony Feng for being named a Sloan Fellow. You can read more about the award: Six young faculty members named Sloan Fellows.

A two-day conference to celebrate Steve Smale on his 95th birthday

This two-day conference will celebrate Steve Smale on his 95th birthday by covering topics relating to some of his contributions to the world of mathematics and to the world of mineral collecting.

For more information please visit: Smale@95: A Conference in Honor of Steve Smale.

Congratulations to Professor Olga Holtz

Please join us in congratulating Professor Olga Holtz for her UC Multicampus Research Program Award. Please read more about these awards at: UC awards $15.5M in research grants to tackle big questions in health, AI, agriculture and climate justice.

Professor Ribet to Receive 2025 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Research

Professor Ken Ribet will receive the 2025 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for a groundbreaking 1976 paper "A modular construction of unramified p-extensions of Q(μ_p)."

You can read more about it at News from the AMS.

We are very excited to announce that Dr. Christian Gaetz will be joining the Department of Mathematics as our newest faculty member this Fall.  

Please join the Department of Mathematics in congratulating Michael Lindsey who has been chosed as a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow. Congratulations Michael!

The Sloan Research Fellow is awarded to early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. To read the announcement and learn more about the award, please refer to the links below.

Announcement of Winners of the 84th Putnam Competition

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada. The competition consists of two 3-hour sessions, during each session, participants work individually on 6 challenging mathematical problems.

Students Ranked in the Top 200

Theodore Lysek, Noah Mart, Jianzhi Wang

Professor Bernd Sturmfels will Receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Scienceat at U Chicago's 2024 Convocation

The department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Bernd Sturmfels who will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science at U Chicago's Convocation ceremony in June 2024.

Congratulations to Professor Sunčica "Sunny" Čanić on being awarded the 2024 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture prize. You can read more about Sunny's prize here. 

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Berkeley professor of mathematics, has been awarded the American Academy of Sciences and Letters' inaugural 2023 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement.

The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2024 AWM Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory will be Yunqing Tang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley.  Tang is recognized for her breakthrough work in arithmetic geometry, including results on the Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture, a conjecture of Ogus on algebraicity of cycles, arithmetic intersection theory, and the unbounded denominators conjecture of Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer.

The 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Ruixian Zhang who will be awarded with the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. For more details please see: Mathematician Ruixiang Zhang to receive 2023 Sastra Ramanujan Prize

The 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

Congratulations to Hannah Larson on being awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize. For more details please see: https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L3956.

We are excited to announce that the IEEE History Committee has voted to award an IEEE Milestone Plaque for the development of the Intel 8087 floating point coprocessor to our own Professor Emeritus William "Velvel" Kahan, who was the main designer of the 8087’s data types and arithmetic. This design became the basis of the IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard, an effort led by Prof. Kahan, for which he received the 1989 Turing Award, and which was also recognized by an IEEE Milestone Plaque earlier this year, mounted on the 3rd floor of Soda Hall.