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Stanford’s Putnam Team have placed 4th out of 487 teams in the 2025 Putnam competition. Thirty-six Stanford undergraduates participated in the competition, and 12 of them placed in the top 500.…
Stanford University Department of Mathematics Professor Mohammed Abouzaid has been featured in the New York Times article, "These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test."This interview discusses…
Jonathan Luk, Professor of Mathematics, will receive the 2026 AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize along with co-collaborator Professor Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University), for their work on the C0-…
The Stanford Math Department & MRC 2025 Fall Public Lecture was held on November 11, 2025. Our speaker, Grant Sanderson, gave a phenomenal talk and pulled in one of the largest audiences we've…
Brian Conrad, Professor of Mathematics and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Math Department, has been appointed the Milligan Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. The Bass…
Two former members of the Stanford University Math Department have been awarded 2025 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. This fellowship provides early-career scientists and engineers…
The Stanford Daily has featured Lernik Asserian, Senior Lecturer, in the article "Meet Lernik Asserian, the math senior lecturer who’s taught it all". The article highlights her teaching…
Sarah Peluse will receive the 2026 AWM Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra & Number Theory. The prize was established in 2014, and is awarded every two years. It recognizes Peluse’s…
The department is proud and excited to announce the arrival of fourteen new graduate students.Listed in alphabetical order: Sanjana Das, Cole Franklin, Esty Gusak, Zehan Hu, Marco Ioffreddi, Hamin…
Several members of the Department have been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to be held in July 2026 in Philadelphia. Ciprian Manolescu will give a…