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Professor Noga Alon has received the 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics “for pioneering contributions to mathematical cryptography, combinatorics, and the theory of computer science.” He shares the prize with Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel

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."

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.

The Mathematics 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.  

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

Ryan Unger, along with José de Jesús Montaño López, Geneva Smith, and Pasquale Toscano, have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students.

Assistant Professor Ian Zemke is one of five Princeton faculty among 126 early career scholars named Sloan Research Fellows for 2024.