Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Louis Nirenberg
February 28, 1925 - January 26, 2020
Plans for a memorial are on hold due to the COVID-19 situation. In the meantime, please click here to read about Louis' outstanding life and career.
Sylvia Serfaty elected to the European Academy of Sciences
Congratulations, Sylvia!
Jeff Cheeger to receive an honorary degree from the University of Chicago
Jeff is one of six distinguished scholars who will receive the honorary degree in 2021. Further information can be found
here.
Eric Vanden-Eijnden named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
Congratulations to Eric Vanden-Eijnden on being selected by the Department of Defense (DOD) to receive this highly competitive fellowship in recognition of his research on the "Mathematical Foundation and Scientific Applications of Machine Learning." For further information,
click here.
Legion of Honor
Yann LeCun has been named a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Congratulations!
Gerard Ben Arous and Lai-Sang Young elected to the National Academy of Sciences
For further information see the official announcement
Sloan Fellowship
Daniele Panozzo has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship for his work in solving partial differential equations on complex geometrical domains. Congratulations!
More information can be found here
Yann LeCun, receives the ACM A.M. Turing Award!
Congratulations, Yann!
See the NYU press release for more information.
2019 Holiday Lecture
Steven Strogatz, Cornell University
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus
Friday, December 13
More information can be found here
Vlad Vicol is a recipient of the 2019 Clay Research Award
Vlad Vicol received the 2019 Clay Research Award, along with Tristan Buckmaster and Philip Isett
For further information, please read the CMI citation.
NYU Courant mourns the loss of alum Dr. Burt Morse
Dr. Morse earned his doctoral degree in Mathematics from NYU Courant in 1963.
For further information, please read the obituary of Dr. Morse.
Silver Professor Margaret Wright is the recipient of the John von Neumann Prize
Congratulations, Margaret!
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.
Denis Zorin receives ACM Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Denis Zorin has received the 2019 Computer Graphics Achievement Award "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to computer graphics and geometric modeling."
Congratulations!
Joan Bruna and Leif Ristroph receive CAREER Awards
Joan Bruna and Leif Ristroph are recipients of National Science Foundation CAREER Awards!
Congratulations to Joan and to Leif!
Marsha Berger awarded Norbert Wiener Prize
Marsha Berger will be awarded the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics for her fundamental contributions to adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and to Cartesian mesh techniques for automating the simulation of compressible flows in complex geometry. Congratulations, Marsha!
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)!
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.
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!
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!
Serfaty, Shelley, and Zeitouni elected to AMACAD
Professors Sylvia Serfaty, Michael Shelley, and Ofer Zeitouni have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD). For more information, please see the press release from the Academy.
Congratulations!
Jeff Cheeger awarded Steele Prize
Silver Professor of Mathematics, Jeff Cheeger, has received 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!
Brandon Seward awarded 2018 Brin Prize
Congratulations to Brandon Seward on receiving the 2018 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians.
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.
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."
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.
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".
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."
Seminars and Events
Friday, December 04, 2020
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
AMS / AML Seminar
Monday, December 07, 2020
Math and Democracy Seminar
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Geometry Seminar
Mathematical Finance Seminar
Thursday, December 10, 2020
News & Announcements
Sylvia Serfaty Elected to the European Academy of Sciences
Gerard Ben Arous and Lai-Sang Young elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Donation
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has made a donation to Courant of a computer system and access to cloud based computing, with up to 2 petaflops of computing power, for use in COVID-related research.
Jeff Cheeger to receive an honorary degree from the University of Chicago
Jeff is one of six distinguished scholars who will receive the honorary degree in 2021. Further information can be found here.