Bellaïche wins AMS Centennial Fellowship
Joël Bellaïche has been awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for 2010-11. Jöel, Associate Professor in Mathematics, joined the Math Department in 2008. Joël’s research interests include...
View ArticleChiral Equivariant Cohomology
Prof. Bong Lian from Math writes: In the 1950′s, French mathematicians Henri Cartan and Armand Borel defined a new topological invariant that was capable of distinguishing symmetries of certain...
View ArticleHelfgott ’98 wins Adams Prize in mathematics
Harald Helfgott ’98 has been awarded the Adams Prize by the University of Cambridge (UK), one of its oldest and most prestigious prizes. The prize, awarded jointly to Helfgott and to Dr. Tom Sanders...
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Geometry and Dynamics IGERT Awarded
Brandeis has just been awarded an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant in the mathematical sciences. The grant, titled Geometry and Dynamics: integrated education...
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Eisenbud Lectures: “The Mathematics of Dynamic Random Networks”
This year’s Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics will be given by Dr. Jennifer Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England. Dr. Chayes is well known...
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Six scientists secure fellowships
One current undergraduate, and five alumni, from the Brandeis Sciences were honored with offers of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships in 2012. The fellowships, which are awarded...
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Olivier Bernardi to Join Math Faculty
Dr. Olivier Bernardi will be joining the mathematics department in Fall, 2012 as a tenure-track assistant professor. Bernardi’s research interests lie in combinatorics and probability. He has worked on...
View ArticleGrad student teaching awards 2012
Nineteen graduate students from across the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were recognized for their superb efforts as teaching assistants at a reception on May 1. Awards were made by department...
View ArticleMath graduate student training grant renewed
Mathematics Ph.D. students and faculty at Brandeis should be happy to learn that the department’s training grant from the US Dept. of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)...
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Gessel awarded Simons Fellowship
Professor of Mathematics Ira Gessel has been awarded a prestigious Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. He is part of the initial class of awardees for this fellowship, which will support research...
View ArticleBrandeis mathematicians in inaugural class of AMS fellows
Department members and emeritus professors named as AMS fellows. The Math department website notes that Professors Ruth Charney, Ira Gessel, and Kiyoshi Igusa, along with emeritus professors Edgar...
View ArticleHarald Helfgott ’98 and the Odd Goldbach Conjecture
The Computer Science Dept blog passed on the report from the New Scientist that Harald Halfgott ’98 (Math/Co Sci), now working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, has proved the odd (weak)...
View ArticleQuantum Field Theory: An Interdisciplinary Study Group
William Hicks, a grad student in Physics, writes: This semester, graduate students from a wide range of departments will be coming together to study quantum field theory (QFT) as part of the...
View ArticleGessel named Berenson Professor of Mathematics
According to BrandeisNOW, Ira Gessel has been named the fourth Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Mathematics. A 2013 fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Gessel does research in...
View ArticleNew team-taught course offered spring 2014: “Differential geometry in...
1) Introduction and Motivation We would like to call attention to a new class offered this winter/spring 2014 quarter, being taught jointly by Prof. Daniel Ruberman in Mathematics and Prof. Albion...
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Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics, March 11 – 12, 2014
Cumrun Vafa The Departments of Physics and Mathematics and Brandeis are incredibly excited to announce that this year’s Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics will be given by the world-renowned...
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Michael Kosowsky ’14 receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Michael Kosowsky ’14, who majored in both physics and mathematics at Brandeis, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in astronomy and astrophysics. The...
View ArticleBrandeis IGERT Summer Institute June 16 – June 26, 2014
The second Brandeis IGERT Summer Institute begins this Monday, June 16th in Goldsmith 300 and runs through Thursday, June 26th. This will consist of a variety of talks by faculty and students on...
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Phi Beta Kappa Elects 51 Division of Science Students
The Brandeis chapter of Phi Beta Kappa recently elected 97 new members. Of the 97, at least 51 undergraduate students are majors in the Division of Science (Biochemistry, Biological Physics, Biology,...
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Ira Gessel Is Honored at May 8 Conference
Ira Gessel, the Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Mathematics, is retiring from Brandeis University after more than 30 years of teaching and research. During this time, he has made...
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