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Teresa Zhang, a Stanford University undergraduate mathematics and computer science major, has been awarded a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.This scholarship provides support for students pursuing…

Students from SURIM and Math 195, Senior Exploration and Synthesis, the capstone course, presented their posters at SURPS, The Symposium of Undergraduate Research & Public Service (info here) on…

Professor Jonathan Luk is prominently featured in a recent article by the Stanford Report, exploring his research on black holes and general relativity. This article dives deep into the work that led…

Professor Otis Chodosh has been awarded one of the 2026 New Horizons prizes in Mathematics for his work, including contributions to differential geometry and the calculus of variations. The New…

The Stanford Math Department is featured in a recent article on Stanford Magazine about the department's chalkboards, and why we prefer chalk over markers and whiteboards. Professor Jonathan Luk is…

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…