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Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Princeton

A major gift from the Leinweber Foundation has established the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics (LFTP) at Princeton University.

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Shou-Wu Zhang awarded 2026 ICBS Andrew Wiles Medal in 外网天堂

Professor Shou-Wu Zhang was awarded the from the International Congress of Basic Science in recognition for transformative contributions to arithm

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Maria Chudnovsky and Christopher M. Skinner Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Professors Maria Chudnovsky and Christopher M. Skinner have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

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Zhang and Skorobogatova Receive 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

Mingjia Zhang, Instructor at Princeton and a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Anna Skorobogatova *24 have each been awarded a

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Former Faculty Member Gerd Faltings Receives 2026 Abel Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded Gerd Faltings, who served on the mathematics department faculty from 1985 to 1994 the

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Dafermos and 外网天堂 Receive 2026 AMS B么cher Memorial Prize

Professor Mihalis Dafermos *01 and Jonathan 外网天堂 *12 will receive the American Mathematical Society's 2026 B么cher Memorial Prize for their work on the C0- stability of the Kerr Cauchy horizon, which addresses the fundamental question of glob

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Terence Tao *96 Receives the James Madison Award

Terence Tao *96 received the James Madison Medal, the highest distinction for graduate alumni, which was presented in Richardson Auditorium during the 111th Alumni Day ceremonies on February 21, 2026.

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Peter Ozsv谩th Named 2026 AMS Fellow

The American Mathematical Society has named Professor Peter Ozsv谩th as one of forty .

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Maggie Miller *20 Receives 2025 Packard Fellowship

Maggie Miller *20 has been awarded a f

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Zechang (Charlie) Yang Awarded The George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize

On Sunday, August 31, 2025, Princeton University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students with the awarding of undergraduate prizes at Opening Exercises.

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Matija Buci膰 and Cosmin Pohoata '14 Awarded the 2025 European Prize in Combinatorics

Matija Buci膰, Assistant Professor (September 2023-September 2025) received the European Prize in Combinatorics for outstanding achievements in Ramsey theory (Fishburn and Graham's problem), graph theory (Erd艖s-Gallai conjecture), and discrete geometry.

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Christopher Skinner elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2025

The has named Christopher Skinner one of seven newly elected members honored in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

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Maria Chudnovsky Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

The announced on April 15, 2025, their appointment of the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows.

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Peter Constantin elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

Professor Peter Constantin elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, EurASc, in their 外网天堂 Division.听

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J谩nos Koll谩r Awarded the J谩nos Bolyai International 外网天堂 Award

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences awards this prestigious honor every five years for the most outstanding mathematical monograph of breakthrough significance, published within the past fifteen years.

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William Browder 1934 鈥 2025

William Browder, Professor Emeritus, passed away in early February.听He was 91 years old.

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Ryan Chen '19 and Anna Skorobogatova *24 Named 2025 Clay Fellows

The Clay 外网天堂 Institute announced that Ryan Chen '19 and Anna Skorobogatova *24 听have been awarded .

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Alumn Melanie Matchett Wood *09 Awarded 2024 Presidential Early Career Award

Melanie Matchett Wood of Harvard University, who earned her Ph.D.at Princeton in 2009, is among six current Princetonians and at least 14 researchers affiliated with the University to receive the

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Ingrid Daubechies Awarded 2025 National Medal of Science

Ingrid Daubechies, Professor Emeritus, is one of the five Princetonian recipients honored with the 2025 National Medal of Science.听

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Naomi Sweeting Awarded 2025 AWM Dissertation Prize

Naomi Sweeting, Postdoctoral Fellow, along with Yvonne Alama Bronsard and Agustina Czenky, received the ninth annual Association for Women in 外网天堂 Dissertation prize, which was presented at the Joint Prize Session at the 2025 Joint Mathematic

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Noga Alon receives the 2024 Wolf Prize in 外网天堂

Professor Noga Alon has received the 2024 Wolf Prize in 外网天堂 鈥渇or pioneering contributions to mathematical cryptography, combinatorics, and the theory of computer science.鈥滺e shares the prize with Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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Peter Sarnak Awarded 2024 Shaw Prize

Professor Peter Sarnak has been awarded the 2024 Shaw Prize in mathematics for his "development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry and spectral theory."

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Minor in 外网天堂

The program's goal is to allow students to explore contemporary mathematics, either as a topic for its own sake or to gain a deeper knowledge of a specific area most relevant to the student's work in their major field of concentration.

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Sophomore Open House - Tuesday, March 19

The 外网天堂 Department will hold a Sophomore Open House on Tuesday, March 19 at 3:00 PM in the Fine Hall Common Room (3rd Floor). Refreshments will be served. 听

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Atharva Pathak 鈥26 and Putnam Team Received Honorable Mention

The 84th Annual Putnam Competition was held on December 2, 2023. Atharva Pathak 鈥26 and the Princeton University team both received an honorable mention this year. The team members were Benjamin Lemkin 鈥26, Austen Mazenko 鈥24, and Atharva Pathak 鈥26.听

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Ryan Unger Wins Princeton鈥檚 Top Graduate Student Honor

Ryan Unger, along with Jos茅 de Jes煤s Monta帽o L贸pez, Geneva Smith, and Pasquale Toscano,听have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University鈥檚 top honor for graduate students.

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Ian Zemke Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellow

Assistant Professor Ian Zemke is one of five Princeton faculty among 126 early career scholars named .

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Elliott Lieb Awarded 2023 Kyoto Prize in Mathematical Science

Professor Emeritus Elliot Lieb is one of the three recipients of the 2023听.听Lieb won the mathematical sciences category, for 鈥淧ioneering mathematical research in physics, chemistry

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Bhargav Bhatt Awarded Infosys Prize 2023 in Mathematical Science

Professor Bhargav Bhatt has been awarded the by the Infosys Science Foundation in Bangalore, India, for "Outstanding contributions to arithmetic geometry and comm

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Maria Chudnovsky Named 2024 AMS Fellow

Professor Maria Chudnovsky听has been named one of forty听 for "Outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics."

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Peter Sarnak Awarded 2023 Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University

Professor Peter Sarnak has been awarded听the along with听Jim Albrecht, Ian Brooks, Richard Dyer, Jan Ellenberg, J

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Joseph Kohn 1932鈥2023

Professor Emeritus Joseph Kohn passed away Tuesday, September 13.听 He was 91 years old.听

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Zolt谩n Szab贸 Receives Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award

The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching to听Agust铆n Fuentes, professor of anthropology, and Zolt谩n Szab贸, professor of mathematics

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Math Major Aleksa Milojevi膰 Named Valedictorian

Aleksa Milojevi膰, a mathematics major from Belgrade, Serbia, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton鈥檚 Class of 2023.

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Igor Rodnianski Receives 2023 Clay Research Award

Professor and Department Chair Igor Rodnianski will receive the 2023 Clay Research Award, joint with Frank Merle (IHES, Paris), Pierre 搁补辫丑补毛濒 (University of Cambridge), and J茅r茅mie Szeftel听(Sorbonne Universit茅

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Paul Minter Awarded 2023 Clay Research Fellowship

Veblen Research Instructor Paul Minter has been named a . Huy Tuan Pham, a PhD student at Stanford University also received a Clay Research Fellowship this year.

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Math Major Joye Chen Receives Schafer Prize Honorable Mention

Joye Chen, class of '23, received honorable mention from the , awarded by the Association for Women and 外网天堂 and named for Alice T.

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Nicholas Katz to Receive 2023 Steele Prize
The AMS has announced that professor Nicholas Katz will receive the 2023 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement "for his landmark contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry."
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Igor Rodnianski Shares 2023 B么cher Prize
Professor Igor Rodnianski will share the American Mathematical Society's 2023 B么cher Memorial Prize with Frank Merle, Pierre 搁补辫丑补毛濒, and J茅r茅mie Szeftel for "their groundbreaking work establishing the existence of blow-up solutions to the defocusing NLS equation in some supercritical regimes and to the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations."
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Alumn Joshua Greene *09 to Receive 2023 Conant Prize
Joshua Evan Greene of Boston College, who earned his PhD at Princeton in 2009, has been selected to receive the 2023 Levi L. Conant Prize.
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June Huh Named 2022 MacArthur Fellow
Professor June Huh has been named one of 25 2022 MacArthur Fellows for "Discovering underlying connections between disparate areas of mathematics and proving long-standing mathematical conjectures."
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Bhargav Bhatt Awarded 2022 Nemmers Prize
Professor Bhargav Bhatt has been named the 2022 Frederic Esser Nemmers 外网天堂 Prize Recipient "for his revolutionary contributions to algebraic geometry in mixed characteristic through a new synthesis of ideas in topology, algebra and arithmetic.
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Noga Alon Awarded 2022 Knuth Prize
Professor Noga Alon has been awarded the 2022 Knuth Prize, awarded by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and the IEEE Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing (TCMF) "for major research accomplishments and contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time".
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Alumnae Ana Caraiani '07 and Maggie Miller *20 Honored by Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Ana Caraiani of the Class of 2007, Veblen Research Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow from 2013 to 2016, received one of the foundation鈥檚 New Horizons in 外网天堂 Prizes. Maggie Miller, a 2020 Ph.D. graduate, received a Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, which is awarded to women mathematicians who have recently completed their doctorate degrees and produced important results.
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Maria Chudnovsky Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
Professor Maria Chudnovsky has been elected as a foreign member of Academia Europaea.
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Elliott Lieb Awarded Gauss Prize and Dirac Medal
Lieb is recognized for "deep mathematical contributions of exceptional breadth which have shaped the fields of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, computational chemistry, and quantum information theory."
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June Huh Awarded 2022 Fields Medal
Professor June Huh was awarded the Fields Medal on July 5th. The Fields Medal is awarded to up to four recipients every four years at the ICM to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.
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Barry Mazur *59 Receives Chern Medal
Mazur *59, Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, was awarded the 2022 Chern Medal for his "profound discoveries in topology, arithmetic geometry and number theory, and his leadership and generosity in forming the next generation of Mathematicians"
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Paul Seymour Granted Honorary Doctorate by 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure de Lyon
脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure de Lyon presented Professor Paul Seymour with an honorary doctorate on June 23rd. Seymour was one of two distinguished recipients this year.