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2025

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

May 30, 2025
Six NU Math graduate students-- Ben Cooper, Guin Bixler, Daniel Townsend, Deven Manam, Amadeus Maldonado, and Haochen Cheng won 2025 NU Mathematics Graduate Student Awards and NU Math faculty members, Erin Griffin and Martin Bishop, won the 2025 NU Mathematics Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Postdoctoral or Visiting Faculty Member.  These awards were presented on May 30th.

 

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

May 2, 2025
Alexandra Bellow, (née Bagdasar), 89, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Northwestern University, passed away peacefully at home in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, 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

Feb 21, 2025
The Frontier of Science Award is awarded by the International Congress of Basic Sciences to a recent paper, recognized for a major breakthrough in its field.  The following NU Math Faculty Members won a 2025 FSA: 

Rachel Greenfeld Wins 2025 Sloan Fellowship

Feb 21, 2025
NU Math faculty member, Rachel Greenfeld, has won a 2025 Sloan Fellowship, which is given to scholars representing the most promising early-career scientists working today. 

 

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

Feb 4, 2025
NU Math faculty member, Rachel Greenfeld, has been awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. The 5-year award, “Structure Theory in Additive Combinatorics”, will bring exciting research and training activities to our department.

 

2024 BOAS DAY

10/10/24
On Oct 16th at 4pm in Lunt 105 we will celebrate the mathematics of our new postdocs: Boas AP, RTG fellows, and postdoctoral lecturers.  Our postdocs will present their mathematical interests in talks of 4 minutes each, always aimed at our first year graduate students. The titles of the talks are here:
  • Caleb Dilsavor: What is the geodesic flow of a discrete space?
  • Michael Zshornack: Flexibility and rigidity among discrete subgroups in higher rank
  • Fernando Figueroa: The dual complex of Calabi-Yau pairs
  • Grace Jaffe: Strange Change
  • Tianmin Yu: Gibbs sampling through Langevin Dynamics
  • Izak Oltman: The Spectrum of the Scottish Flag Operator
  • Redmond McNamara: Encoding Information About The Primes
  • Ethan Sussman: Asymptotic analysis with manifolds-with-corners