Bryna Kra has been elected as president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Kra is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University. After a year of serving as President-Elect, Kra’s two-year term will begin February 1, …
Professor Ben Antieau, of the Department of Mathematics, has been named a 2022 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his contributions to K-theory, algebraic geometry, and homotopy theory.
According to the American Mathematical Society’s website, the Fellows program …
Madelyn Moy and Andrew Laeuger have been awarded the 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. This scholarship gives funds to students intending to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Out of 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, Moy …
The Great Math Challenge in Biology Contest, sponsored by the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, the Department of Molecular Biosciences, and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, asked contestants to take a real-world problem in biology and propose a …
Professors Xiumin Du and Ilya Khayutin of the Department of Mathematics have been named 2021 Sloan Fellows of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Sloan Research Fellowship is described below on the Sloan Foundation website:
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Department of Mathematics professors, Bryna Kra and Jared Wunsch have both been awarded the Simons Fellowship in Mathematics from the Simons Foundation for 2021.
The Simons Fellowship is described below on the Simons Foundation website:
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Eric Zaslow, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, …
A recent gift to Northwestern will create a new endowed chair in the Department of Mathematics — the Madan Lal Puri Professorship.
The chair will be named for Madan Lal Puri, the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished …