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We would like to acknowledge and congratulate several of our PhD Students who have been recognized recently for their achievements as they work towards earning their graduate degrees:Ben Church has…

Please join us in congratulating Brian Conrad, Math Department Professor, for being Appointed the TG Wijaya Professorship in Mathematics!   An appointment to a named professorship is one of the…

Please join us in congratulating Lernik Asserian, Math Department Senior Lecturer, for receiving the 2026 Lecturer Award for Teaching and Undergraduate Education! This award was granted in…

Stanford University Mathematics Professors Emmanuel Candès, Otis Chodosh, Yasha Eliashberg, and Eleny Ionel have received 2026 Frontiers of Science Awards from the International Congress for Basic…

Stanford University Professor Emmanuel Candès, alongside Professor Camillo De Lellis (Institute for Advanced Study), have been awarded the 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, for "their…

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…