Read more about the members of our community who have been honored recently for their outstanding contributions to the university and the field of mathematics.

Faculty

Larry Washington - Kirwan Undergraduate Award

Dan Cristofaro - Gardiner for winner the 2025 Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems

Dan Cristofaro - Gardiner invited speaker to Princeton University to deliver the 2027 Minerva 

Haizhao Yang - International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) as a recipient of the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award.

Haizhao Yang, Mathematics Thelma M. Williams Advisor of the Year Award

Henri Berestycki for winning the 2026 Schauder Medal

 

Student

NSF Graduate Student Fellowship

  • Erin Hopper (undergraduate student), Algebra, Number Theory, & Combinatorics
  • Hannah Cairo, Analysis
  • Yujing (Jen) Tang, Geometric Analysis
  • Owen Deen, Applied Mathematics
  • Darsh Gandhi, Mathematical Biology

Jenna Strauch - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hollings Scholar: AOSC, Mathematics):

The winning entries for the 2026 Seymour Goldberg & Monroe Martin Spotlight talk:

  • Abdullah Ahmed: Johnson Lindenstrauss Lemma and LLMs
  • Ben Goldschlager: Introduction to the Calculus of Variations
  • Lorenzo Valerio: Every Loop Hides a Rectangle
  • Noah Waldman: A Game Theoretic Proof of Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem 

Staff

Jessica Sadler - Dean’s Outstanding Employee Awards

Abba Gumel stands in front of a chalk board

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Assistant professor of mathematics Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli. Credit: Mark Sherwood

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Finding Infinity in Planetary Motion

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