Scientific Distinction
About the Institute
The Institute's faculty have received many diverse awards, for their scientific research, and service to the community at large. Prizes from professional societies, foundations, and government organizations provide one form of recognition. Election to elite scientific societies serves as another type of recognition. Several members of the faculty have been active in the governance of scientific organizations or have served on committees that guide national science policy; and several faculty members have served on or chaired committees of the National Research Council.
Several members of the faculty have been active in the governance of scientific organizations or have served on committees that guide national science policy. Peter D. Lax and Cathleen S. Morawetz have served terms as President of the American Mathematical Society, and Margaret Wright was President of SIAM. In 2000, she won the SIAM Distinguished Service Award, and in 2002 the AMS Public Service Award.
Our faculty is dedicated to teaching as well as to research. One recognition of excellence in the classroom is NYU's Golden Dozen Award, bestowed since 1997 on Frederick P. Greenleaf, Melvin Hausner, Samuel Marateck, and Esteban G. Tabak. Another is NYU's Outstanding Teacher Award, which has been awarded to Deena Engel, Nathan Hull, and Samuel Marateck. Albert B.J. Novikoff received the MAA's Distinguished University Teaching Award in 1996. Charles S. Peskin won the NYU Alumni Association's Great Teacher Award in 1999.
A measure of the Institute's strength is the rate at which new recognitions accrue. Here is a partial list of our scientific awards:
SELECTED FACULTY DISTINCTIONS
Abel Prize
- Mikhael Gromov
- Peter Lax
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Association for the Advancement of Science
- Bud Mishra
- Daniel Stein
American Physical Society Fellow
- W. Stephen Childress
- Michael Shelley
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- Daniel Stein
Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
- Richard Cole
- Allan Gottlieb
- Bud Mishra
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
- Marsha Berger
- Jeff Cheeger
- Percy Deift
- Leslie Greengard
- Mikhael Gromov
- Peter Lax
- Andrew Majda
- Henry McKean
- David McLaughlin
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Charles Newman
- Louis Nirenberg
- Charles Peskin
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- Margaret Wright
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
- Marsha Berger
- Leslie Greengard
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- Margaret Wright
Members of the Institute of Medicine
- Charles Peskin
Academia Sinica, Beijing
- Peter Lax (1993)
Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letter
- Jeff Cheeger
French Academy of Sciences
- Mikhael Gromov
- Peter Lax (Foreign Associate)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Peter Lax
- Lai-Sang Young
Soviet Academy of Sciences
- Peter Lax
National Medal of Science
- Peter Lax
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Louis Nirenberg
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science/Technical Achievement Award
- Ken Perlin
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows
- Marsha Berger
- Jeff Cheeger
- Percy Deift
- Peter Lax
- Fang-Hua Lin
- Andrew J. Majda
- David McLaughlin
- Henry McKean
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Charles Newman
- Louis Nirenberg
- Charles Peskin
- Jalal Shatah
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- Margaret Wright
- Lai-Sang Young
Balzan Prize in Mathematics
- Mikhael Gromov
George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics (AMS and SIAM)
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Charles Peskin
- S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Bocher Prize of the AMS
- Assaf Naor
- Fang-Hua Lin
- Louis Nirenberg
Chauvenet Prize (AMS)
- Peter Lax
Julian Cole Lectureship (SIAM)
Michael Shelley
Crafoord Prize
- Louis Nirenberg
Chern Medal
- Louis Nirenberg
Germund Dahlquist Prize (SIAM)
- Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Francois Frenkiel Award (APS)
- Michael Shelley
Guggenheim Fellowships
- Simeon M. Berman
- Sylvain Cappell
- Jeff Cheeger
- Steve Childress
- Richard J. Cole
- Percy A. Deift
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Charles Newman
- Louis Nirenberg
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- Lai-Sang Young
Sonia-Kovalevsky Lecture (AWM-SIAM)
- Lai-Sang Young
Kyoto Prize in Basic Science
- Mikhael Gromov
Lester R. Ford Award (MAA)
- Martin Davis
- David McLaughlin
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Chee Yap
Ralph E. Kleinman Award (SIAM)
- Robert Kohn
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- Charles Peskin
Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology
- Ken Perlin
- Charles Peskin
NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics
- Andrew J. Majda
NASA Software of the Year
- Marsha Berger
Packard Foundation Fellowships
- Leslie Greengard
- Assaf Naor
Max Planck Research Prize
- Jeff Cheeger
George Polya Prize (AMS/SIAM)
- Percy Deift
PYI, PECASE, and CAREER Awards
- Clark Barrett
- Marsha Berger
- Yevgeniy Dodis
- Davi Geiger
- Jonathan Goodman
- Leslie Greengard
- Robert Grimm
- David Holland
- Subhash Khot
- Jinyang Li
- Fang-Hua Lin
- Olivier Pauluis
- Kenneth Perlin
- Tamar Schlick
- Sylvia Serfaty
- Jalal Shatah
- Michael Shelley
- Lakshmi Subramanian
- Eric Vanden-Eijnden
- Denis Zorin
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
- Lai-Sang Young
Silver Professorships
- Marsha Berger
- Sylvain Cappell
- Jeff Cheeger
- Richard Cole
- Yann LeCun
- Fang-Hua Lin
- Henry McKean
- Charles Newman
- Olof Widlund
- Margaret Wright
Sloan Research Fellowships
- Chris Bregler
- David Cai
- Sylvain Cappell
- Jeff Cheeger
- Yu Chen
- Rob Fergus
- Jonathan Goodman
- Sinan Gunturk
- Robert Kohn
- Jinyang Li
- Fang-Hua Lin
- Andrew J. Majda
- Nader Masmoudi
- Charles Newman
- Louis Nirenberg
- Tamar Schlick
- Sylvia Serfaty
- Jalal Shatah
- Daniel Stein
- Esteban Tabak
- Mark Tygert
- Eric Vanden-Eijnden
- Lai-Sang Young
- Denis Zorin
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows
- Marsha Berger
- Leslie Greengard
- Bob Kohn
- Peter Lax
- Andrew J. Majda
- David McLaughlin
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Michael Overton
- Charlie Peskin
- Michael Shelley
- S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- Olof Widlund
- Margaret Wright
Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences
- Marsha Berger
- Leslie Greengard
- Andrew Majda
- Ken Perlin
- Charles Peskin
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Leroy P. Steele Prize (AMS)
- Martin Davis
- Leslie Greengard
- Mikhael Gromov
- Peter Lax
- Cathleen Morawetz
- Louis Nirenberg
Norbert Wiener AMS/SIAM Prize
- Peter Lax (1975)
Royal Irish Academy Fellow
- Cathleen Morawetz (2000)
Royal Society of Canada
- Cathleen Morawetz (1996)
Oswald Veblen Prize (AMS)
- Jeff Cheeger
- Mikhael Gromov
John von Neumann Prize (SIAM)
- Andrew J. Majda
Alan T. Waterman Award
- Subhash Khot
Wolf Prize
- Mikhael Gromov (1993)
- Peter Lax (1987)