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PROF. AUFFINGER AND PROF. AVNI AWARDED 2023 SIMONS FELLOWSHIPS
PROF. XIUMIN DU RECEIVES CAREER AWARD FROM NSF
Feb 21, 2023
NU Mathematics faculty member, Prof. Xiumin Du, has received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. She will receive almost $500,000 over five years to study “Weighted Fourier extension estimates and interactions with PDEs and geometric measure theory”.
ARTHUR PANCOE, BENEFACTOR AND FRIEND OF NU MATHEMATICS PASSED AWAY JAN 16, 2023
Jan 18, 2023Arthur Pancoe, benefactor and longtime friend of the mathematics department, died on Jan 16, 2023 at the age of 97. Arthur Pancoe received a Masters degree in mathematics at Northwestern after returning from service in the Pacific in the second world war. In 1995, Arthur and Gladys Pancoe endowed the Pancoe Chair of Mathematics. In 1997 Arthur gave a colloquium talk in our department, titled “Some Reflections on Mathematics, Technical Analyses and the Efficient Market Theory”. He was a philanthropist and generous donor to Northwestern. In 2003, the Arthur and Gladys Pancoe NSUHS Life Sciences Pavilion was opened at Northwestern and dedicated to his granddaughter Beth Elise Pancoe.
The Pancoe Chair is currently held by Prof. Zhihong Jeff Xia who wrote, “Art was a very dedicated professional and passionate person. I have a lot of fond memories of the times my wife and I spent together with him and his wife Hap. We will miss him greatly.”
BRYNA KRA ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF THE CHILEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Jan 18, 2023
NU Mathematics faculty member, Prof. Bryna Kra, has been elected a Corresponding Foreign Member of La Academia Chilena de Ciencias, the Chilean Academy of Sciences. The members of the Academy are of four categories: Number, National Correspondents, Foreign Correspondents, and Honoraries.
MMMM2023 MAY 20-21
Jan 10, 2023.
Northwestern University will host the 2023 May Midwestern Microlocal Meeting on May 20-21, 2023. The MMMM2023 organizers are Kiril Datchev (Purdue University), Antônio Sá Barreto (Purdue University), David Sher (DePaul University), and Jared Wunsch (Northwestern University).
PROF. YURI I. MANIN, 1937-2023
PROF. ZASLOW APPOINTED AS NEW NOYES CHAIR
NU MATH PROF. BRYNA KRA'S WORK FEATURED IN QUANTA MAGAZINE
Dec. 7, 2022
Prof. Bryna Kra's work on resolving an old conjecture of Erdős has been written up in a December 2022 article in Quanta Magazine. "Over the past few years, four mathematicians — Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian Richter and Donald Robertson — have developed Furstenberg’s techniques to find not just arbitrarily long progressions within any set containing a positive fraction of the integers, but infinite versions of structures called sumsets" (Leila Sloman).
PROF. AUFFINGER ELECTED 2023 FELLOW OF AMS
Nov 9, 2022
NU Mathematics faculty member, Prof. Antonio Auffinger, has been elected a 2023 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Auffinger was cited for his “contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and, in particular, to the study of spin glasses and percolation theory”. The AMS, founded in 1888 to further the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
NU MATH FACULTY RECEIVES ASG NOMINATIONS
Nov 1, 2022
The Associated Student Government (ASG) collects nominations for the annual Faculty & Administrator Honor Roll from NU UG students. In the past year, over 100 students provided thoughtful and complex portraits of 2021-2022 faculty and staff who they believe made a powerful and exceptional impact on their Northwestern experience. NU Mathematics faculty members Prof. Aaron Peterson, Prof. John Alongi, Prof. Ursula Porod, Prof. Michael Maltenfort, and Prof. Santiago Canez received award nominations.
NU MATH DYNAMICS GROUP FEATURED IN WEINBERG COLLEGE NEWS
Oct 24, 2022
Northwestern University's Mathematics world-leading Dynamics Group is featured in this recent article of the Weinberg College News, highlighting the leadership of our Dynamics Group faculty members as well as the new $2.5 million Research Training Grant received from the National Science Foundation. This will expand research, enliven student interest, and elevate Northwestern University’s standing in the fast-charging field of dynamics.
PROF. BRYNA KRA NAMED 2023 FELLOW OF AWM
NU Math Graduate Student Receives 2022 Eclipse Award
Sept 29, 2022
NU Mathematics PhD student Deven Manam was awarded an Eclipse Scholarship Award for Fall 2022 from Eclipse Laboratories, Inc. The Eclipse Scholarship Award is intended to support students with strong backgrounds in mathematics, linguistics, and computer science.
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