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Math Major Joye Chen Receives Schafer Prize Honorable Mention

Joye Chen, class of '23, received honorable mention from the 2023 Alice T. Schafer Prize, awarded by the Association for Women and Mathematics 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 Bôcher Prize
Professor Igor Rodnianski will share the American Mathematical Society's 2023 Bôcher Memorial Prize with Frank Merle, Pierre Raphaël, and Jérémie 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 Mathematics 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’s New Horizons in Mathematics 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 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon presented Professor Paul Seymour with an honorary doctorate on June 23rd. Seymour was one of two distinguished recipients this year.
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John Pardon Receives 2022 Clay Research Award
Pardon has been awarded the 2022 Clay Research Award for his "wide-ranging and transformative work in geometry and topology, particularly his ground-breaking achievements in symplectic topology."
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Noga Alon Awarded 2022 Shaw Prize
Alon shares this year's prize with Ehud Hrushovski, University of Oxford, for their "remarkable contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction notably with algebraic geometry, topology and computer sciences."
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Sarah Peluse Awarded Dénes König Prize
In recognition of Peluse's lecture, "Quantitative Bounds in the Polynomial Szemerédi Theorem and Related Results."
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Professor Paul Seymour Elected to Royal Society

Paul Seymour was elected as a Fellow of the

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Horizons Lectures-John Urschel, Institute for Advanced Study

The Horizons Lectures consists of two events, a research colloquium as well as a seminar discussion on the societal impacts of the mathematics profession with the following goals:

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Professor Amit Singer Named 2022 SIAM Fellow

Professor Amit Singer is one of 26 esteemed-professionals to be named as a 2022 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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Amitesh Datta receives Excellence in Teaching Award

Amitesh Datta has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Student Councils in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Putnam Team Wins Second Place

The 82nd Annual Putnam Competition was held on December 4, 2021. This year, Princeton University placed second in the team competition. The members of the team were Minjae Kwon '25, Frank Lu '23, and Aleksa Milojevic '23.

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Dennis Sullivan *66 Receives 2022 Abel Prize

Dennis Sullivan *66, distinguished professor at Stony Brook, will receive the 2022 Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of

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Charles Fefferman Receives Frontiers of Knowlege Award

Professor Charles Fefferman will share the BBVA