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PROF. AUFFINGER AND PROF. AVNI AWARDED 2023 SIMONS FELLOWSHIPS

March 7, 2023
NU Mathematics faculty members Prof. Antonio Auffinger and Prof. Nir Avni have been awarded 2023 Simons Fellowships. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances. 
 
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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, 2023

Arthur Pancoe, benefactor and longtime friend of the mathematics department, died on Jan 16, 2023 at the age of 97Arthur 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 SciencesThe 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).

The MMMM23 Conference is free and open to the mathematical public but participants are asked to register online.

PROF. YURI I. MANIN, 1937-2023

Jan. 10, 2023
Professor Emeritus Yuri Manin passed away on January 7, 2023 at the age of 85.  He was Board of Trustees Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern from 2002 until 2011. Yuri Manin was a leading mathematician of his generation.  His wide interests included algebraic geometry, diophantine geometry, logic, mathematical physics and quantum computing.   Among his many accolades, Manin was the first winner of Northwestern's Nemmer Prize in Mathematics, in 1994.  It was an honor for the department that he joined us as a faculty member eight years later.  We mourn the loss of a great mathematician.

 

PROF. ZASLOW APPOINTED AS NEW NOYES CHAIR

Jan. 5, 2023
NU Mathematics faculty member, Prof. Eric Zaslow, has been appointed as the new Henry Sanborn Noyes Chair in Mathematics. This endowed chair is one of the oldest in the university.  It was established in honor of  Henry Sanborn Noyes, one of the first two faculty members in the university and acting president from 1854-1856 and 1860-1867. This appointment acknowledges Eric's many accomplishments in research, teaching and service. 

 

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

Oct 24, 2022
NU Math faculty member, Prof. Bryna Kra, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Association for Women in MathematicsKra was named a 2023 AWM Fellow "for her vision and work creating programs to support women in mathematics, especially GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities for Women) and AWM student chapters; for her leadership in the mathematics community, including serving on the AWM Executive Committee and serving as president of AMS; and for making advocacy for women a priority throughout her career."

 

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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