Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

NYU Courant Annual Holiday Lecture

Friday, December 14, 2018, 2:00pm

Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109

Professor Alexander Jones

"The Antikythera Mechanism: Mathematical Astronomy through Ancient Gears"

Abstract

Jeff Cheeger to be awarded Steele Prize

Silver Professor of Mathematics, Jeff Cheeger, is to receive the 2019 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for his fundamental contributions to geometric analysis and their far-reaching influence on related areas of mathematics. Congratulations, Jeff!

Olof Widlund named 2019 AMS Fellow

Olof Widlund, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science & Mathematics has been named a 2019 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Congratulations, Olof!

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Julia Kempe elected to Academia Europaea

Congratulations to Julia Kempe, Director of the NYU Center for Data Science and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, on being elected as a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)!

Percy Deift receives 2018 Henri Poincaré Prize

Percy Deift has been awarded the 2018 Henri Poincaré Prize. Congratulations, Percy!

For further information, please see the official Henri Poincaré Prize page.

Sylvia Serfaty named a Simons Investigator

Congratulations to Sylvia Serfaty on being named a 2018 Simons Investigator!

For further information, please see the list of Simons Investigator awardees.

Sylvain Cappell & Bob Kohn elected to AMACAD

Sylvain Cappell (class of 2018) and Bob Kohn (class of 2017) have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Congratulations!

Two Courant faculty invited to speak at the 2019 ICIAM

Marsha Berger and Sylvia Serfaty have been invited to speak at the 2019 International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Valencia, Spain.

Oded Regev receives Gödel Prize

Oded Regev has been awarded the 2018 Gödel Prize for his 2005 paper, "On lattices, learning with errors, random linear codes, and cryptography."

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Paul Bourgade, Poincaré Chair laureate

Paul Bourgade has been selected as one of two laureates of the Poincaré Chair for the academic year 2018/2019. Congratulations, Paul!

2018 Sloan Fellows

Congratulations to our 2018 Sloan Fellows: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Afonso Bandeira, and Joan Bruna!

For further information, see the Sloan Foundation website.

2018 Silver Professors

Sylvia Serfaty and Dennis Shasha have been named Silver Professors. Congratulations!

Nader Masmoudi receives Fermat Prize

Nader Masmoudi has been awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize by the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse for "his very deep and creative work in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations." Congratulations!

Patrick Cousot awarded John von Neumann Medal

Patrick Cousot is the recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann medal, given "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology".

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Sylvain Cappell to receive AMS award for public service

Congratulations to Sylvain Cappell, recipient of the 2018 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service! Sylvain will officially receive the award on January 11, 2018 at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego.

Congratulations to Kyunghyun Cho, who represents NYU as 1 of 15 CIFAR Azreli Global Scholars!

For further information, please see the press release.

Subhash Khot elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Subhash Khot has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his outstanding contribution to science.

Please click here for more information from the Royal Society.

Yann LeCun elected to NAE

Yann LeCun has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for developing convolutional neural networks and their applications in computer vision and other areas of artificial intelligence."

Louis Nirenberg awarded the 2015 Abel Prize

Louis Nirenberg and John Nash have been awarded the 2015 Abel Prize "for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis."