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Gene Kim, Mathematics Department lecturer, was featured today in the Stanford Daily for new introductory seminar (IntroSem), MATH 77Q: "Probability and Gaming" which launched in the fall quarter.…
Two Stanford Math faculty—Brian Conrad and Rafe Mazzeo—in collaboration with Patrick Callahan of Callahan Consulting have drafted recommendations on 12 key mathematical ideas that they and Stanford…
Bryna Kra, the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University and 1995 Stanford PhD, has been elected to the Presidency of the American Mathematical Society.   She will…
Sarah Peluse, who graduated Stanford in 2019 with a PhD in Mathematics, has been recently awarded the 2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize.  The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize is…
We are excited to welcome 14 new PhD students to the department and also welcome our 5 second year students in person. New students pictured: Talia Blum Joao…
The Math Department is pleased to announce the following awards which were presented at the department ceremony in June.  Undergraduate Research Award This award recognizes outstanding honors…
Stanford Engineering have featured Emmanuel Candés in the latest article of their The Future of Everything Series.  The article is titled "Emmanuel Candès: How to increase certainty in predictive…
Former Stanford Mathematics Professor, June Huh, has been named a Simons Investigator by the Simons Foundation.  Each year, the Simons Foundation announces its list of theoretical scientists who…
Today, in honor of International Day of Women in Mathematics, the Stanford Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce the recipients of the Maryam Mirzakhani Graduate and Postdoctoral…
Professor Melanie Matchett Wood, a former Szegö Assistant Professor in the Stanford Department of Mathematics, has earned the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award. The Waterman award…