Congratulations to Professors Andrei Okounkov and Wei Zhang, who have been selected to speak at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). The next ICM will be held August 1 – 9, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. For a full list of speakers, and more details about the event, visit the ICM website:

http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/home

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Congratulations to Prof. Simon Brendle, who was recently selected as a 2017 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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A week long workshop in Algebraic Geometry will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, from July 31 to August 4, 2017. The workshop is intended to support the ongoing Stacks Project, lead by Prof. Johan de Jong.

For more information, please visit the workshop website: https://stacks.github.io/

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A probability conference in honor of Prof. Ioannis Karatzas will be held May 31 – June 2, 2017 in Santorini, Greece.

The conference will include the following speakers:

• Beatrice Acciaio
• Ivan Corwin
• Christa Cuchiero
• Jaksa Cvitanic
• Robert Fernholz
• Michael Harrison
• Tomoyuki Ichiba
• Johannes Muhle-Karbe
• Marcel Nutz
• Andrei Okounkov
• Nicolas Perkowski
• Kavita Ramanan
• Julien Reygner
• Steven Shreve
• Mete Soner
• Josef Teichmann
• Gordan Zitkovic

For more details, please visit the conference website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/department/thera/index.shtml

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On February 17 there will be a half-day symposium featuring a series of short talks by Columbia faculty working on probability and its interactions with society.

Date: Friday, February 17th
Time: 9am-1pm
Location: 413 Kent

Schedule:

9:00am  : Introduction — Ivan Corwin (Mathematics)
9:20am  : Yash Kanoria (Business School)
9:40am  : Sharon Di (Civil Engineering)
10:00am: Joel Cohen (School of International & Public Affairs; Earth & Environmental Sciences)
10:20am: Robert Erikson (Political Science)
10:40am: Break
11:00am: Philip Protter (Statistics)
11:20am: Bruce Levin (Biostatistics; School of Public Health)
11:40am: Tim Halpin-Healy (Barnard Physics)
12:00pm: Ioannis Karatzas (Mathematics; Statistics)
12:20pm: Mihalis Yannakakis (Computer Science)
12:40pm: David Yao (Industrial Engineering & Operations Research)

A light pizza lunch will be provided afterwards in the Cantor Lounge, room 508 Mathematics.

(This event is cohosted by members of the departments of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science Institute)

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Congratulations to Prof. Mohammed Abouzaid, who was recently announced as a recipient of the 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize.

The 5th annual New Horizons prize recognizes “promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work in mathematics”. More information on the Prize and an official press release can be found here:

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/34

A recorded broadcast of the prize ceremony will air Sunday, December 18 at 7pm EST/PST on FOX.

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Welcome to the 2016 cohort of graduate students! A list of our new phd students can be found at:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/programs-math/graduate-program/incoming-class/

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

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Please congratulate Prof. Joan Birman, who was recently elected as an Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society!

According to the London Mathematical Society website:

“Each year, the Council of the Society considers the election of Honorary Members of the Society from amongst distinguished mathematicians who are not normally resident within the United Kingdom.  The election of Honorary Members is made by Council, subject to confirmation by the Society at an Ordinary Meeting.”

As one of the members of the 2015 Honorary Membership recipients, Prof. Birman’s selection was announced in a recent publication of the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. The full announcement is available here: http://blms.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/28/blms.bdw014#

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Congratulations to Professor Wei Zhang, who won the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics at the 7th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) in Beijing on August 6, 2016 for his original contributions to number theory and automorphic forms. At most two Morningside Gold Medals are awarded to outstanding mathematicians of Chinese descent at the ICCM every three years.

For more information, please visit:

http://iccm.mcm.ac.cn/dct/page/70015

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