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Professor Ciprian Manolescu has been named as a member of the 2020 class of Simons Investigators. This distinction is only awarded to four mathematicians this year.  Read more. 

Professor Emmanuel Candès has been awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The award is one of the most prestigious academic awards in Spain and is given…

As the death of George Floyd and ensuing protests have shown, police brutality against Black Americans is still a major problem in our country. Racism is present in many forms and areas of the United…

Dear Mathematics Community,  As many of you already know, there is a nationwide request for a pause to all academic activities in STEM disciplines on June 10. The stated purpose for this event is to…

Matthew Kwan, Stanford Math Department Szegő Assistant Professor, has been awarded the SIAM 2020 Dénes König Prize for outstanding research in discrete mathematics.  The SIAM 2020 Dénes König Prize…

The Stanford Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that Ipsita Datta is awarded the Maryam Mirzakhani Graduate Fellowship for 2020-21. This fellowship was established in memory of our former…

The results from the 2019 Willliam Lowell Putnam Competition have been announced. The eightieth Putnam Competition was held on December 7, 2019, and Stanford students performed admirably. Twenty-…

Otish Chodosh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award is presented to early-career scientists who have…

Professor Yakov “Yasha” Eliashberg is a recipient of the 2020 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. Along with the Fields Medal and Abel Prize, the Wolf Prize is considered one of the most prestigious awards in…

Cyrus Reza, class of 2020, a double major in mathematics and classics has been named a 2020 Rhodes Scholar. Read the full story in Stanford News