NU MATH BOAS DAY 2025

Oct 22, 2025 

On Wednesday, October 22^nd at 4pm in Lunt 105, we had a series of short, engaging talks by our new Boas Assistant Professors and Postdoctoral Lecturers:

• Sofiia Dubova - "Delocalization of random matrices"
• Gabriela Laboska - "Computability theory and reverse mathematics of combinatorial principles"
• David Lee - TBA
• Naruki Masuda - "Directed pushouts"
• Andreas Mountakis - "Ergodic theory and combinatorics"
• Thomas O'Hare - "Finite Periodic Data Rigidity in Hyperbolic Dynamics"
• Morgan Opie - "Efficiently generating projective modules, inexplicitly"
• Arpon Raksit - "Evenness in homotopy theory"

NU UG LEAN LAB LAUNCHED

Oct 15, 2025

Led by NU faculty Dr. Erin Grffin and Dr. Martin Bishop, the Northwestern Undergraduate Lean Lab is an undergraduate community at Northwestern for learning, using, and contributing to Lean and Mathlib. In Fall quarter they will run a beginner-friendly workshop on learning Lean. In Winter and Spring, they will work on projects with the goal of contributing to Mathlib.

Prof. Alex Smith Wins 2025 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

Oct 7, 2025

NU Mathematics faculty member, Prof. Alex Smith, has won the 2025 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. Prof. Smith has made breakthrough contributions to several long-standing problems in number theory, employing ideas from combinatorics, analytic number theory, and probability. 

Du Selected as an AT&T Research Fellow

Aug 29, 2025

NU Math faculty member, Prof. Xiumin Du, is now selected as an AT&T Research Fellow by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. This appointment, which lasts from September 2025 to August 2027, recognizes the excellence of Xiumin's many accomplishments as a scholar, mentor, and citizen of the University and aims to support her current research projects.

Wunsch Appointed to the James E. Johnson Professorship

Aug 29, 2025

NU Math faculty member, Prof. Jared Wunsch,  will be appointed to the James E. Johnson Professorship starting September 1st. These positions are reserved for outstanding scholars who advance both our research and teaching missions and have a high level of ethics, integrity, and collegiality. 

Now Open: Nominations for Nemmers Prize

Aug 29, 2025

Nominations are open for Northwestern’s University’s 2026 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics. More information here. Nemmers prizes recognize leaders from institutions outside Northwestern who have made lasting contributions to their field. Deadline to nominate is Jan 14, 2026.

Bryna Kra Wins 2025 Walder Award

2025 Dynamics REU Presentation on Aug 1st

July 31, 2025

The participants of the 2025 Dynamics REU will present their work on Friday, August 1 in Lunt 105.

• 9:30am:  Classical and Quantum Trajectories on Manifolds (Ian Hollas, Reyna Li)
• 10:15am:  The Problem of Opposite Parabolics: A Menagerie of New Families of Relation Numbers (Bobby Buyalos, Jayden Thadani, Xinbei (Mary) Wang)
• 11:00am:  Constructing Dynamical Systems with Prescribed Numerical Invariants (Mahina Carlon, Elian Gal-on, Patrick Lu, Aiden Novick, Jack Thielen) 

NU Graduate Student Will Join the Inaugural Class of Simons Dissertation Fellows in Mathematics

July 30, 2025

NU Mathematics graduate student, Robert Preston Cranford, was recently selected to be among the inaugural class of Simons Dissertation Fellows in Mathematics.  The Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics provides research support to graduate students in the final years of their mathematics Ph.D. program.

Reza Gheissari Wins NSF CAREER award

July 3, 2025

NU Math faculty member, Reza Gheissari, has been awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, a prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. This 5-year award, titled, “Analysis of Slowly Mixing Markov Chains,” will bring exciting research and training activities to the NU Math Dept.

2025 NU Math Graduate Student and Teaching Awards

2025 Undergraduate Math Awards Announced

May 21, 2025

On Wednesday, May 21, the 2025 NU Mathematics Undergraduate Awards were presented, following this year's Award Presentation speaker, Prof. Tadashi Tokieda (Stanford).  

Alexandra Bellow: Aug 30, 1935 - May 2, 2025

Maksym Radziwill Receives Alexanderson Award and Conjecture Work Recognition

March 6, 2025                                                                                                                                                                                                   NU Math faculty member, Maksym Radziwill, has received the Alexanderson Award by AIM for his paper, "Higher Uniformity of Bounded Multiplicative Functions in Short Intervals on Average" (jointly with Kaisa Matomaki, Terence Tao, Joni Teravainen, and Tamar Ziegler).  Maksym's work on the Kummer-Petterson Conjecture was recognized in the 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. The prize was won by his co-author and post-doctoral mentee Alexander Dunn. 

Math Faculty Win 2025 FSA

• Rachel Greeneld won for her article, "A counterexample to the periodic tiling conjecture" (by Rachel Greenfeld, Terence Tao)
• Bryna Kra won for her article, "Infinite sumsets in sets with positive density" (by Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian Richter, Donald Robertson)
• John Francis won for his article, "A 2025 Factorization homology of stratified spaces" (by David Ayala, John Francis, Hiro Tanaka)
• Xiumin Du won for her article, "A sharp Schrödinger maximal estimate in R2" (by Xiumin Du, Larry Guth, Xiaochun Li)
• Gábor Székelyhidi won for his article, "Sasaki-Einstein metrics and K-stability" (by Tristan C. Collins, Gábor Székelyhidi)

Rachel Greenfeld Wins 2025 Sloan Fellowship

UG Colloquium on Feb 26

Feb 21, 2025

Alex Iosevich of University of Rochester will be present "Fourier Series, Signal Recovery, and Real-Life Applications" at the Undergraduate Colloquium on Wed, Feb 26th 4:30-5:30p in Lunt 105.

Rachel Greenfeld Awarded NSF Career Grant