Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday Feb 14 2012

02/14

2:00 p 9.166 Jr Number Thoery
NIck Rauh: The Lindemann-Weierstrass Theorem

3:30 p 9.166 Jr Geometry
Pavel Safronov: Higgs bundles

News & Announcements

Caffarelli Wins Israel's Wolf Prize

Jan 10 , 2012

Luis Caffarelli has been named a winner of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize, along with seven other American, British and Isreli recipients. The Math Department now has two Wolf prize winners on its faculty, John Tate won the Wolf prize in 2002.

Engquist Receives 2012 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize

Jan 5 , 2012

Bjorn Engquist has been awarded the 2012 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics, "for his contributions to a wide range of powerful computational methods over more than three decades," the prize citation says. "His work blends mathematical analysis, modeling, and computation, and has led to numerical tools with enormous impact across a broad range of applications, including aerodynamics, acoustics, electromagnetism, computational fluid mechanics, and computational geoscience."

Babuska Receives 2012 AMS Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Jan 5, 2012

Ivo M. Babuska has been awarded the 2012 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, "for his many pioneering advances in the numerical solution of partial differential equations over the last half century." The prize citation goes on to say: "In his work on finite element methods, Babuska has developed and applied mathematics in profound ways to develop, analyze, and validate algorithms which are crucial for computational science and engineering. In so doing, he has helped to define that field, and has had a great impact on the modern world. A constant characteristic of Babuska's work is the combination of deep and imaginative mathematical analysis with a constant concern for the practical implications of his work for engineering applications."