$Announcing the loss of Profesor Henry McKean$

Announcing the loss of Profesor Henry McKean

$Sylvia Serfaty Awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics$

Sylvia Serfaty Awarded the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics

$Lai-Sang Young Awarded the 2023 Heinz Hopf Prize$

Lai-Sang Young Awarded the 2023 Heinz Hopf Prize

$Vlad Vicol Named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics$

Vlad Vicol Named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Mathematics

$Nina Holden Awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2023$

Nina Holden Awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2023

$Shizhu Liu Wins NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award$

Shizhu Liu Wins NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award

$Fang-Hua Lin Receives NSF Research Award$

Fang-Hua Lin Receives NSF Research Award

$Jinyoung Park Awarded the 2025 Levi L. Conant Prize$

Jinyoung Park Awarded the 2025 Levi L. Conant Prize

$Professor Raghu Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan$

Professor Raghu Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan

$NYU Courant Mathematics Department$

NYU Courant Mathematics Department

$Gérard Ben Arous Wins NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award$

Gérard Ben Arous Wins NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award

$Jonathan Niles-Weed Wins the SIAG/DATA Early Career Prize$

Jonathan Niles-Weed Wins the SIAG/DATA Early Career Prize

$Sad News of the Passing of our Colleague and Friend, Professor Marco Avellaneda 1955 - 2022$

Sad News of the Passing of our Colleague and Friend, Professor Marco Avellaneda 1955 - 2022

$Guido DePhilippis named 2021 Simons Investigator. Congratulations!$

Guido DePhilippis named 2021 Simons Investigator. Congratulations!

$Jeff Cheeger has been awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences$

Jeff Cheeger has been awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences

$Nader Masmoudi Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.$

Nader Masmoudi Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

$NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Andrew J. Majda$

NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Andrew J. Majda

$NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Jerry Percus$

NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Jerry Percus

$NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Louis Nirenberg$

NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Louis Nirenberg

$Sylvia Serfaty elected to the European Academy of Sciences$

Sylvia Serfaty elected to the European Academy of Sciences

$Jeff Cheeger to receive an honorary degree from the University of Chicago$

Jeff Cheeger to receive an honorary degree from the University of Chicago

$Gerard Ben Arous and Lai-Sang Young elected to the National Academy of Sciences.$

Gerard Ben Arous and Lai-Sang Young elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

$Eric Vanden-Eijnden named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow$

Eric Vanden-Eijnden named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow

$Serfaty, Shelley, and Zeitouni elected to AMACAD$

Serfaty, Shelley, and Zeitouni elected to AMACAD

$Marsha Berger awarded Norbert Wiener Prize$

Marsha Berger awarded Norbert Wiener Prize

$Jeff Cheeger receives 2019 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement$

Jeff Cheeger receives 2019 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

$Percy Deift awarded the 2018 Henri Poincare Prize$

Percy Deift awarded the 2018 Henri Poincare Prize

$Congratulations to Sylvia Serfaty on being named a 2018 Simons Investigator!$

Congratulations to Sylvia Serfaty on being named a 2018 Simons Investigator!

$Sylvain Cappell elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences$

Sylvain Cappell elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

$Nader Masmoudi has been awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize$

Nader Masmoudi has been awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize

$Leslie Greengard Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences$

Leslie Greengard Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

$Louis Nirenberg awarded the 2015 Abel Prize$

Louis Nirenberg awarded the 2015 Abel Prize

News & Announcements

NYU Courant at ICM 2026

Jalal Shatah has been named Chair of the ICM 2026 Organizing Committee. Scott Armstrong, Jinyoung Park, Valentino Tosatti, Hong Wang, Laure Zanna, and Nina Holden have been invited to speak. Read More
Hong Wang Solves Kakeya Set Conjecture

Hong Wang, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has proven the century-old Kakeya set conjecture in a joint work with Joshua Zahl. Read More
Chao Li Receives Sloan Research Fellowship

Chao Li, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read More
NYU Announces Chaired Professorships for Eric Vanden-Eijnden and Laure Zanna

Eric Vanden-Eijnden will hold the Paulette Goddard Chair in Mathematics. Laure Zanna will be the inaugural recipient of the Joseph B. Keller and Herbert B. Keller Professorship in Applied Mathematics. Read More
Lai-Sang Young Awarded the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics

Lai-Sang Young, Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science, has received the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read More

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Upcoming Seminars

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

An Introduction to Optimal Transport, Part 1
Convexity Seminar
Nestor Guillen, Texas State, Courant
11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
Stochastic vesicle release as a mechanism of facilitation and depression in synaptic transmission
Computational Neuroscience Seminar
Charles S. Peskin (joint work with Calvin Zhang-Molina), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
12:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Stochastic vesicle release as a mechanism of facilitation and depression in synaptic transmission
Mostly Biomathematics Lunchtime Seminar
Charles S. Peskin (joint work with Calvin Zhang-Molina), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
12:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Bridging Models and Data: From Traditional Assimilation to Integrating Model Hierarchies, Causal Inference, and Digital Twins
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
Nan Chen, U Wisconsin - Madison
1PM, Warren Weaver Hall 412
A necessary and sufficient condition for k-transversals
Geometry Seminar
Daniel McGinnis, Princeton U
6PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Atmospheric gravity waves: new observations, high-resolution simulations, and data-informed methods
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
Aditi Sheshadri, Stanford
3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Thursday, September 18, 2025

On stable implosions
Analysis Seminar
Vlad Vicol, NYU
11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Friday, September 19, 2025

Random covers of hyperbolic surfaces
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
Ramon van Handel, Princeton University
11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302