Professor Raghu Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan
NYU Courant Mathematics Department
Gérard Ben Arous Wins NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award
Jonathan Niles-Weed named a 2022 Sloan Research Fellow
Sad News of the Passing of our Colleague and Friend, Professor Marco Avellaneda 1955 - 2022
Guido DePhilippis named 2021 Simons Investigator. Congratulations!
Jeff Cheeger has been awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical 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 Jerry Percus
NYU Courant Mourns the Loss of Professor Louis Nirenberg
Sylvia Serfaty elected to the European Academy of Sciences
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.
Eric Vanden-Eijnden named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
Serfaty, Shelley, and Zeitouni elected to AMACAD
Marsha Berger awarded Norbert Wiener Prize
Jeff Cheeger receives 2019 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Percy Deift awarded the 2018 Henri Poincare Prize
Congratulations to Sylvia Serfaty on being named a 2018 Simons Investigator!
Sylvain Cappell elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2018 Sloan Fellows: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon & Afonso Bandeira
Nader Masmoudi has been awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize
Leslie Greengard Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Louis Nirenberg awarded the 2015 Abel Prize
News & Announcements
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S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan Awarded 2023 Padma Vibhusan Medal
Professor Raghu Varadhan has been honored with the Padma Vibhusan, the second-highest civilian award distributed by the Republic of India. The medal acknowledges his "exceptional and distinguished service" in the fields of science and technology. Read More
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Gérard Ben Arous Wins NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award
Gérard Ben Arous, Silver Professor of Mathematics, has received the NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award for his work on "High-dimensional limit theorems for SGD: Effective dynamics and critical scaling." Read More
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NIST selects a winning algorithm based on Oded Regev's work
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first group of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer. The winning algorithm for public key encryption—the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm—relies upon the work of Courant's Oded Regev. Read More
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Jonathan Niles-Weed chosen as a Sloan Research Fellow
Courant faculty Jonathan Niles-Weed has been elected as a 2022 Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowship honors "early-career scholars who represent the most promising researchers working today." Congratulations Jonathan! Read More
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Sad News of the Passing of our Colleague and Friend, Professor Marco Avellaneda 1955 - 2022
Marco was on the faculty of NYU Courant for almost 40 years, starting as a Courant Instructor in 1985. After his early work on applied math, he spent most of his career working on mathematical finance. Marco was a tremendously creative and energetic person and we will greatly miss him. … Read More
Upcoming Seminars
Monday, January 30, 2023
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Stability of Planar Fronts of the Bidomain Allen-Cahn Equation
Mathematics Colloquium
Yoichiro Mori, UPenn
3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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Uncommon Factors for Bayesian Asset Clusters
Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
Will Cong, Cornell University (Johnson) and NBER
5:30PM, Online Zoom access provided to registrants
Thursday, February 2, 2023
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TBD
Analysis Seminar
Eris Runa, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila
11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 -
Extending spectral methods to Brownian inextensible filament hydrodynamics
Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
Ondrej Maxian, Courant Institute, NYU
12:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
Friday, February 3, 2023
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TBA
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
Yang Li, MIT
11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 512 -
Infinite cycles in the interchange process in five dimensions
Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
Dor Elboim, Princeton University
11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
Monday, February 6, 2023
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The many, elaborate wrinkle patterns of confined elastic shells
Mathematics Colloquium
Ian Tobasco, UIC
3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Towards a Normative Framework for Decumulation Investing
Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School
5:30PM, Online Zoom access provided to registrants