2019 Sprout Awards Competition Announced
The Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) is excited to announce this year’s SPROUT awards competition! SPROUT was created to help you bring your scientific research and entrepreneurial ambitions to...
View ArticleBrandeis grad is the first woman to receive the Abel Prize in Mathematics
KAREN UHLENBECK GIVING A TALK AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY (IAS).Credit: Andrea Kane By Ruth Charney, Theodore and Evelyn Berenson Professor of Mathematics We are thrilled to announce that Karen...
View ArticleAlumni and Student Researchers Wow Crowd at 2019 SciFest
With a new alumni symposium in the morning and a poster session filling three floors of the Science Center atrium in the afternoon, this year’s SciFest IX set a new standard for Brandeis Science’s...
View ArticleSPROUT and I-Corps Applications are Open
The Brandeis Innovation SPROUT and I-Corps programs offer support for bench and non-bench research. Both programs offer funding in different amounts, mentorship, training and help in further exploring...
View ArticleApplied Mathematics and AI meet Law and Social Justice
For the past two years, Applied Mathematics Professor Jonathan Touboul and his team has been working in collaboration with Law Professor Samuel Dahan at Queen’s University (Canada) in modeling legal...
View ArticleWorking towards diversity, equity and inclusion in the sciences
Bulbul Chakraborty Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics Division Head, Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences This blog is addressed to my colleagues in the division of science. As scientists, we...
View ArticleAlum, Past Postdoc Receive Awards from Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Netta Engelhardt. photo: MIT Lisa Piccirillo. photo: Quanta Magazine. Lisa Piccirillo, a recent Brandeis postdoc and Netta Engelhardt, a Brandeis undergraduate alumni have received two awards from the...
View ArticleRuth Charney to become AMS President on Feb. 1
Ruth Charney, the Berenson Professor of Mathematics, will become the President of the American Mathematical Society on February 1. The Notices of the American Mathematical Society recently published...
View ArticleNew Undergraduate Engineering Science Program Approved
Technology is central to our society. Universities play a key role as innovation hubs in new technology development, by linking knowledge creation, workforce development and commerce. After a...
View ArticleAnish Ghosh receives the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Anish Ghosh has received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is India’s highest science award within the country. While at Brandeis, Anish...
View ArticleDmitry Kleinbock is awarded a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics
Professor of Mathematics Dmitry Kleinbock has been awarded a prestigious Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, which will support research activities during his sabbatical leave in the fall of 2022....
View ArticleVirtual Conference: Climate & Math to be held 5/26/22
As part of the Brandeis’ Year of Climate Action, Thomas Fai, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Jonathan Touboul, Associate Professor or Mathematics (with Denis Patterson from Princeton University)...
View ArticleMaurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures & International Conference to be...
The Mathematics Department of Northeastern University is organizing the 2022 Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference which will take place at the Woods Hole Oceanographic...
View ArticleMath Receives Gift for Berger-Leighton Endowed Professorship
The entire Mathematics Department at Brandeis feels grateful and deeply honored by the recent gift by Bonnie Berger ’83, a former Brandeis trustee and the Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT, and...
View ArticleBrandeis students ranked well at the Putnam Math Competition
The Brandeis team did very well at the Putnam Mathematics Competition this year. The Brandeis team ranked 39 out of 456 institutions! This is a great result, especially given that small institutions...
View ArticleEva Silverstein is 2023 Eisenbud Lectures speaker
The Mathematics department is pleased to announce that this year’s speaker for the Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics is Eva Silverstein of Stanford University. The lectures will take place...
View ArticlePre-Applications to Sprout Program Due 4/17
The Sprout Program is back! Funded by the Provost’s Office and the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), Sprout is designed to encourage and support translational research activity within the Brandeis...
View ArticleMath Hires 1st Berger-Leighton Professor of Mathematics
This spring, the Brandeis Department of Mathematics completed their search for the first Berger-Leighton Professor of Mathematics with the hiring of Dr. Daniel Alvarez-Gaviella, currently an Assistant...
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