Mathematics

Lillian Pierce, current von Neumann Fellow in the School of Mathematics, has received a 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The two-year fellowship is awarded annually to 126 early-career researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

Researchers, including computer scientist and former Member Dana Randall, are experimenting with sets of simple robots in an effort to learn how to control them so that they function in a manner similar to swarms of bees or colonies of ants: Each...

Camillo De Lellis, a world-renowned geometric analyst with broad expertise in the calculus of variations, geometric regularity theory, and fluid dynamics, has been appointed to the Faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced...

Yann LeCun, Director of Facebook AI Research and Silver Professor of Computer Science at New York University, will a give a public lecture, “How Could Machines Learn as Efficiently as Animals and Humans?,” on Tuesday, December 12, which will take...

“When you have dualities, things that are easy to see in one description can be hard to see in the other description. So you and I, for example, are fairly simple to describe in the usual approach to physics as developed by Newton and his successors...

Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, will receive the 2018 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society for the breadth of his contributions made in the advancement of mathematics.

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Christopher Manning, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Linguistics, and Computer Science at Stanford University, will a give a public lecture, “Deep Learning and Cognition,” on Wednesday, November 15, which will take place at 5:00 p.m...

Vladimir Voevodsky revolutionized algebraic geometry and is best known for developing the new field of "motivic homotopy theory." His contributions to computer formalization of proofs and the foundations of mathematics also made an immense impact.

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Akshay Venkatesh, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2017 Ostrowski Prize. The prize, which was established in 1989, is awarded every two years to a scientist or group of scientists who have achieved...

Aleksandr Logunov, Member in the School of Mathematics, has received a Clay Research Award with Eugenia Malinnikova in recognition of their introduction of a novel geometric combinatorial method to study doubling properties of solutions to elliptic...