Congratulations to our colleagues who won the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award:

• - Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, for his join paper with Humbler and Seyfaddini: “Proof of the simplicity conjecture”, Annals of Mathematics 2024.
• - Dima Dolgopyat & Adam Kanigowski, for their joint paper with Federico Rodriguez Hertz: “Exponential mixing implies Bernoulli”, Annals of Mathematics 2024.
• - Tamas Darvas for his paper: “The Mabuchi completion of the space of Kahler potentials”, American Journal of Mathematics 2017.

The Frontiers of Science Award was inaugurated in 2023 in the International Congress for Basic Sciences (ICBS). It is sponsored by the City of Beijing and the Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Application (BIMSA). Awards are given in Mathematics, Physics, and Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences.

For more information see https://www.icbs.cn/site/pages/index/index?pageId=1fe7d1cf-c69c-47bd-a2fa-3d5731ca2610

Congratulations to all award winners!!

We are very excited to report that our MAryland Putnam team ranked 7th among 477 institutions that participated in the 2024 Putnam math competition.

Our team members this year were Daniel Yuan, Isaac Mammel, and Clarence Lam.

Daniel Yuan ranked 26th among 3,988 participants. Clarence Lam and Isaac Mammel were recognized for being among the top 200 students. Omar Habibullah, Samuel Lidz, Adam Melrod, and Kelin Zhu were also recognized for being among the top 500 students.

Visit https://maa.org/putnam/ for more information

Maryland Global, published a great interview with our visiting professor (and diplomat), Qendrim Gashi.

The interview is available at https://marylandglobal.umd.edu/about/news/math-olympiads-diplomacy-meet-visiting-math-professor-qendrim-gashi

Eugenia Brin, a Russian immigrant and retired NASA scientist who, with her family of accomplished Terps, became an important benefactor of the University of Maryland, died on Dec. 3, 2024. She was 76 years old.

The rest of the article can be read here: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/eugenia-brin-1948-2024

Math is excited to announce that Francisco Arana-Herrera has been awarded the 5th Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians.  The prize was shared between Francisco and Rohil Prasad.

Details about eh prize and previous winners can be found at 

https://science.psu.edu/math/research/dynsys/dynamical-systems-prize-young-mathematicians

Starting Spring 2025, the Grant Family Outstanding Achievement Undergraduate Student Award will recognize graduating seniors excelling in both fields.

Link to the article can be read here: https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2024/11/umd-launches-award-recognize-dual-majors-computer-science-and-mathematics