Sylvia Serfaty Awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics
Sylvia Serfaty, Silver Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics by the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations! Read more here.
Sylvia Serfaty Awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics
Sylvia Serfaty Awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics
Lai-Sang Young Awarded the 2023 Heinz Hopf Prize
Every two years, ETH Zurich awards the Heinz Hopf Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of pure mathematics. This year's honoree is Professor Lai-Sang Young. Congratulations! Read more here.
Lai-Sang Young Awarded the 2023 Heinz Hopf Prize
Lai-Sang Young Awarded the 2023 Heinz Hopf Prize
Lerrel Pinto Wins Packard Foundation Fellowship
Lerrel Pinto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has received a 2023 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Read more here.
Lerrel Pinto Wins Packard Foundation Fellowship
Lerrel Pinto Wins Packard Foundation Fellowship
Yann LeCun Announced as Inaugural Jacob T. Schwartz Chair
Yann LeCun has been named as the first recipient of the Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professorship in Computer Science. Read more about the honor and inaugural honoree here.
Yann LeCun Announced as Inaugural Jacob T. Schwartz Chair
Yann LeCun Announced as Inaugural Jacob T. Schwartz Chair
Alumni Q&A with Wojciech Zaremba, Co-Founder of OpenAI
An in-depth conversation with Wojciech Zaremba, Co-Founder and Research Scientist at OpenAI, about his time at NYU Courant and his vision for the future of artificial intelligence. Read it here.
Alumni Q&A with Wojciech Zaremba, Co-Founder of OpenAI
Alumni Q&A with Wojciech Zaremba, Co-Founder of OpenAI
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan Medal
Professor Raghu Varadhan has been honored with the Padma Vibhusan, the second-highest civilian award distributed by the Republic of India. The medal acknowledges his "exceptional and distinguished service" in the fields of science and technology. Read more.
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan Medal
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan Medal
Launching a New Initiative, NYU and DeepMind Clear the Path for Future AI Researchers
Launching a New Initiative, NYU and DeepMind Clear the Path for Future AI Researchers
Leslie Greengard Awarded the 2023 ICIAM Pioneer Prize
Professor Greengard has been honored for his pioneering work on fast algorithms, including the fast multipole method, fast Gauss transform, and fast direct solvers. Congratulations! Read more.
Leslie Greengard Awarded the 2023 ICIAM Pioneer Prize
Leslie Greengard Awarded the 2023 ICIAM Pioneer Prize
Nina Holden Wins Rollo Davidson Prize
Nina Holden, Assosciate Professor of Mathematics, has won the 2023 Rollo Davidson Prize for her "leading work on random planar maps and Liouville quantum gravity." You can read more about the honor here.
Nina Holden Wins Rollo Davidson Prize
Nina Holden Wins Rollo Davidson Prize
Rajesh Ranganath Receives NSF CAREER Award
Rajesh Ranganath, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been named as recipient of the prestigious CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation. CAREER Awards are presented "in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions." Congratulations!
Rajesh Ranganath Receives NSF CAREER Award
Rajesh Ranganath Receives NSF CAREER Award
Joseph Bonneau Receives NSF CAREER Award
Joseph Bonneau, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has received the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CAREER Awards are presented to junior faculty who "exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education." Professor Bonneau's project aims ensure the fairness of lotteries by developing new tools in the emerging field of temporal cryptography. Congratulations!
Joseph Bonneau Receives NSF CAREER Award
Joseph Bonneau Receives NSF CAREER Award
Vlad Vicol Named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics
Vlad Vicol, Professor of Mathematics, has been chosen as a 2023 Investigator by the Simons Foundation. The selective program is designed to "support outstanding theoretical scientists in their most productive years." Congratulation! You can read more about the honor here.
Vlad Vicol Named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics
Vlad Vicol Named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics
Seminars and Events
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
Feb. 13, 2024, 12:30PMHeming Huang, Courant -
Online,
Feb. 13, 2024, 2PMSean Dewar, University of Bristol
Thursday, February 15, 2024
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Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
Feb. 15, 2024, 11AMTuomo Kuusi, University of Helsinki -
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
Feb. 15, 2024, 11AMKevin Schewior, University of Southern Denmark
Friday, February 16, 2024
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Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
Feb. 16, 2024, 10AMLuca Comisso, Columbia -
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
Feb. 16, 2024, 11AMGalyna Livshts, Georgia Tech
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
Feb. 20, 2024, 3:30PMDavid Roe, MIT
Thursday, February 22, 2024
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Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
Feb. 22, 2024, 11AMAinesh Bakshi, MIT
News & Announcements
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Jonathan Niles-Weed Wins the SIAG/DATA Early Career Prize
Jonathan Niles-Weed, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, has received the 2024 SIAG/DATA Early Career Prize from SIAM. Read More
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Courant Welcomes New Faculty Members for Spring 2024
Anupam Gupta, Yi Zhang, and Sara Shamekh are the latest distiguished scholars to join our faculty. Read More
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Yann LeCun Named ACM Fellow for 2023
Yann LeCun, Silver Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, has been named a 2023 ACM Fellow "for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.” Read More
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Jinyoung Park Receives the 2024 Dénes König Prize from SIAM
Jinyoung Park, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has won the 2024 Dénes König Prize alongside Stanford's Huy Tuan Pham. Read More
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Sylvia Serfaty Awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics
Sylvia Serfaty, Silver Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics by the National Academy of Sciences. Read More
Special Events and Activities
Friday, April 12, 2024
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The Courant Institute will host a special event in memory of Professor Aleks Donev, featuring talks from Paul Chaikin, Alejandro Garcia, Pep Espanol, and Alex Mogilner.
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109,
April 12, 2024, 1PM