Congratulations to Amol Aggarwal for being awarded the prestigious Rollo Davidson prize in Probability for 2022.

This award recognizes Professor Aggarwal’s outstanding achievements in the area of random matrix theory and integrable probability.

More information can be found here.

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Please congratulate Professor Panagiota Daskalopoulos, who was recently elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!

“Academy President David W. Oxtoby and Chair of the Board of Directors Nancy C. Andrews have announced that 261 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2022. The new members are listed below, starting with a complete list in alphabetical order followed by members organized by area and specialty. International Honorary Members are indicated with (IHM) after their names. Information about members elected in prior years is in our member directory. ”

For a complete list of the 2022 members, including Professor Panagiota Daskalopoulos, please visit:
https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c

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Congratulations to Professor Ivan Corwin, who was recently selected as a 2022 Simons Investigator!

Simon Investigators are outstanding scientists who receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation. This is intended to support the scientist during their most productive years, when they are establishing creative new research directions, providing leadership to the field, and effectively mentoring junior scientists. For more information about the Simons Foundation and this award, visit their webpage:

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Welcome to the 2022 cohort of graduate students! A list of our new PhD students can be found here.

As a reminder, fall classes begin Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

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Please join us on Wednesday, April 20, Professor Akshay Venkatesh (IAS) is scheduled to give a special talk titled “Symplectic Reidemeister torsion and symplectic L-functions” from 1:10 – 2:10pm in room 520, Mathematics Hall.

ABSTRACT

I will start with a beautiful theorem of W.Meyer about the topology of surfaces. It relates the signature of local systems to the topology of the group of symplectic real matrices.  I will then explain a new theorem about 3-manifolds that controls how this situation varies in a one-dimensional family. Finally, I will get to the main point:  an analogous theorem in number theory about symplectic L-functions.

These theorems seem to be analogous to phenomena that occur in quantization, although the precise relationship is not clear.   Another interesting point is that the topological theorem enters into the proof of the arithmetic one. I will treat L-functions as a “black box” so no familiarity with them will be needed. Joint work with Amina Abdurrahman.

Time & Location

Wednesday, April 20 from 1:10-2:10pm

Mathematics Hall, room 520

2990 Broadway

New York, N.Y. 10027

Tea will be served at 4 pm in 508 Mathematics Hall

*Kolchin Lecture Flyer*

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The Deformations of Geometric Structures in Current Mathematics conference will take place on Tuesday, May 3 through Friday, May 6, 2022. Columbia University, Math department will be hosting this event in memory of Professor Masatake Kuranishi.

For schedules and registration, please visit the conference website.

Conference Website

RSVP deadline: Friday, April 1, 2022

Conference Flyer

2990 Broadway

Mathematics Hall, room 312

New York, N.Y. 10027

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Aise Johan de Jong receives 2022 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

“The AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded annually for a book or substantial survey or expository research paper. The Steele Prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein, and are endowed under the terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele.

The 2022 prize will be presented Wednesday, January 5 during the Joint Prize Session at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle.” -American Mathematical Society

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“Forty-five mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2022, the program’s tenth year.

AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. The AMS is pleased to honor excellence by presenting the class of 2022 Fellows, who are being recognized by their peers for their contributions to the profession.”

• Blumberg, Andrew J., Columbia University – 2022, For contributions to algebraic topology, geometric data analysis, and systems security.
• Corwin, Ivan, Columbia University – 2022, For contributions to integrable probability, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, and stochastic vertex models.

– AMS press release

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From the official press release:

“The 2021 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is awarded to Dr. Will Sawin of Columbia University for his many path-breaking contributions at the interface of number theory and algebraic geometry utilizing a variety of powerful methods from different areas of mathematics. The prize recognizes his revolutionary recent joint work with Mark Shusterman which establishes analogues of the celebrated prime twins and Goldbach conjectures in the function field context, and the proof in a function field setting of the analogue of Chowla’s conjecture on the correlations of the Moebius function, and Landau’s conjecture that there are infinitely many primes of the form N2 + 1. In addition, the prize recognizes his joint paper with Emmanuel Kowalski and Philippe Michel (Annals of Mathematics (2017)) on bilinear forms with Kloosterman sums, where a long standing problem on moments of L-functions is solved by combining techniques from automorphic forms, analytic number theory, and p-adic cohomology. The prize is also for his fundamental joint work with Tim Browning on a geometric version of the Hardy-Littlewood-Ramanujan circle method (Annals of Mathematics (2020)), which has vastly increased our understanding of spaces of rational curves of a given degree on a smooth hyspersurface, and also enabled us to perform enumerative geometry on such surfaces in situations that were beyond the reach of traditional geometric methods. Finally, the prize notes the impact of his work in the resolution of the mixing conjecture of Philippe Michel and Akshay Venkatesh in the function field setting, and in particular his paper in Inventiones Mathematicae (2020), where he settled the conjecture in positive characteristic. These and other contributions of Dr. Sawin are having far-reaching consequences in various branches of mathematics.”

Additional details on the prize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASTRA_Ramanujan_Prize

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Congratulations to Ivan Corwin, who was recently selected to receive the 2021 Loève Prize in Probability. The prize is awarded every two years “to recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in probability who are under 45 years old.”

For more details about the Loève Prize, including a list of previous recipients, please visit: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/awards-and-honors/loeve-prize

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