Recent Prizes and Achievements: (last updated in 2015)
Louis-Pierre Arguin Has Been Awarded the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics
2015 AMS Fellow: Christina Sormani for contributions to geometry, including the study of Ricci curvature, and for mentoring activities, especially for young mathematicians from underrepresented groups.
Lucien Szpiro has been elected to the prestigious Academia Europaea.
Dennis Sullivan wins 2014 Balzan Prize.
2014 International Congress of Mathematicians addresses by
Jeremy Kahn with Vladimir Markovic of Cal Tech, on immersing almost geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic three manifolds (video)
Olga Kharlampovich and Alexei Myasnikov on model theory and algebraic geometry in groups; nonstandard actions and algorithms (video)
2014 AMS Fellows:
Michael Handel for contributions to dynamics on surfaces, pseudo-Anosov maps, and automorphisms of free groups.
Victor Pan for contributions to the mathematical theory of computation.
Two faculty members in the Ph.D. Program in Mathematics, Arthur Apter (Baruch College) and Jay Rosen (College of Staten Island), have been appointed distinguished professors, effective February 1, 2014.
Inaugural AMS Fellows:
Gilbert Baumslag, Jason Behrstock, Linda Keen, Alvany Rocha, Dennis Sullivan, Lucien Szpiro and Alphonse Vasquez!
Mel Fitting has won the Herbrand Award for his work on automated theorem proving.
Vladimir Shpilrain has won a Fulbright Scholarship to study The Complexity of Algorithms in Algebra and Group Theory at Moscow State University in Spring 2012.
Alexey Ovchinnikov has won an NSF CAREER Award to study Computational Differential Algebra. He has developed intriguing new computational methods for systems of difference equations.
Gautam Chinta has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award. His research involves striking new applications of the Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series to Number Theory, Automorphic Forms, the Representation Theory of Metaplectic Groups and the Theory of Affine and Infinite Root Systems.
Dennis Sullivan, Einstein Professor of Mathematics at the Graduate Center, has won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics for 2010 for his "innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics". He will share the award with Prof. Shing-Tung Yau of Harvard who
was commended for his work in geometric analysis.
Jason Behrstock has won a Sloan Research Award. His research explores the interactions between Group Theory, Geometry and Topology. Every finitely generated group may be endowed with a metric (unique up to quasi-isometry). Behrstock applies this theorem of Gromov to provide a deeper understanding of Mapping Class Groups, Fundamental Groups of 3-Manifolds, Artin Groups, Relatively Hyperbolic Groups and Outer Automorphism Groups of Free Groups.
Joel Hamkins has been rated the top contributor at MathOverFlow since June 2010, where he has answered a wide array of advanced mathematical questions. His research involves mathematical logic and set theory but he has answered questions in such far reaching fields as projective geometry and group theory.
Grants: See the complete list of external research grants in our department.
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