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Benjamin Peherstorfer has received an NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations!
Sylvia Serfaty elected to the European Academy of Sciences
Congratulations, Sylvia!
Eric Vanden-Eijnden named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
Congratulations to Eric Vanden-Eijnden on being selected by the Department of Defense (DOD) to receive this highly competitive fellowship in recognition of his research on the "Mathematical Foundation and Scientific Applications of Machine Learning." For further information, click here.
Legion of Honor
Yann LeCun has been named a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Congratulations!
Daniele Panozzo has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship for his work in solving partial differential equations on complex geometrical domains. Congratulations!
Marsha
Berger and Sylvia Serfaty have been invited to speak at the
2019 International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Valencia,
Spain.
Denis Zorin has received the 2019 Computer Graphics Achievement Award "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to computer graphics and geometric modeling."
Marsha Berger will be awarded the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics for her fundamental contributions to adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and to Cartesian mesh techniques for automating the simulation of compressible flows in complex geometry. Congratulations, Marsha!
Julia Kempe elected to Academia Europaea
Congratulations to Julia Kempe, Director of the NYU Center for Data Science and
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, on being elected as a Member of
Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)!
Professors Sylvia Serfaty, Michael Shelley, and Ofer Zeitouni have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD). For more information, please see the press release from the Academy.
Nader
Masmoudi has been awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize by the Institut de Mathématiques de
Toulouse for "his very deep and creative work in the field of nonlinear partial
differential equations." Congratulations!
Congratulations to Sylvain Cappell, recipient of the 2018 AMS
Award for Distinguished Public Service! Sylvain will officially receive the
award on January 11, 2018 at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego.