Summer School in High-Dimensional Probability and its Applications is a two-week summer school (Aug 3-14, 2026) on high dimensional probability and its applications as part of an emphasis year on Probability at Northwestern University’s Department of Mathematics. Organized by NU Math faculty members Antonio Auffinger, Reza Gheissari, and Marcus Michelen, this workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation and Northwestern University.
The 'Recent Trends in Ergodic Theory, Symbolic Dynamics, and Connections to Combinatorics' conference will be held at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL August 31 – September 4, 2026. We will convene leading experts in ergodic Ramsey theory and symbolic dynamics in order to foster scientific collaboration, exchange ideas, and catalyze new research directions.
NU Math faculty member, Prof. Bryna Kra, is among the mathematicians and researchers who authored the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, released June 2. The declaration calls on mathematicians, institutions, funders, governments and industry to take responsibility for protecting the integrity of the discipline as artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how mathematics is practiced and communicated. “Mathematicians must be part of shaping these changes rather than merely reacting to them" (Bryna Kra).
Of the 25 junior Phi Beta Kappa 2026 electees from across all of WCAS, 8 were Mathematics Majors. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society in the United States and selection is strictly based on academic standing, breadth of coursework across arts and sciences disciplines, and overall grade point average. The following 2026 Math Majors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Evan Gerns, Kevin Hu, Rithik Khanna, Aiden Novick, Penelope Orwant, Elijah Platnick, Jack Thielen, James Zhang, Charles Bavis, Raav Ghuman, James Lenze, Bo Lu, Chana Lyubich, Maya Mubayi, and Henry Wyers.
Andrei Okounkov has won the 2026 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics! The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics is a prestigious biennal award which recognizes mathematicians who have made lasting contributions to new knowledge or significant new modes of analysis. Okounkov receives the prize for his "body of work of exceptional depth, breadth and sustained impact on modern mathematics, spanning representation theory, algebraic geometry, probability and mathematical physics." Andrei is the Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University.
