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Professor Tadashi Tokieda has been invited to present a Public Lecture at the upcoming International Congress of Mathematics (ICM), to be held in Rio Janeiro in August, 2018. The other four Public…
Congratulations to Math majors Nitya Mani and Nina Zubrilina who have been awarded the 2018 Goldwater scholarship, which is designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue…
Stanford senior Anna Thomas, a mathematics major (and computer science minor), has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship. The Churchill Scholarship provides funding to American students for one year…
We are delighted to announce an $800,000 gift pledge from distinguished engineers and entrepreneurs Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard and Anousheh Ansari to establish an endowed graduate fellowship in honor…
We are delighted to announce Dan Freed, a Professor at University of Texas at Austin, as the Henri Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Mathematics Department this fall. The Henri…
Professors Emmanuel Candès and Kannan Soundararajan as well as Consulting Professor David Hoffman have been named 2018 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Candès was named for his…
Congratulations to Cédric De Groote who has been selected as a Ric Weiland Graduate Fellow in the Humanities & Sciences. These awards are made to outstanding doctoral candidates in the humanities…
We are delighted to announce an $800,000 gift pledge from distinguished engineers and entrepreneurs Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard and Anousheh Ansari to establish an endowed graduate fellowship in honor…
Professor Emmanuel Candès has been named one of the 2017 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowships, often referred to as “genius grants,” recognize individuals who…
UPDATE: On October 21, the Stanford University Mathematics Department and the Mathematics Research Center will host a memorial in Professor Mirzakhani's honor.  After a long battle with cancer…