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2026 12

  1. The New York Times published a profile on Professor Emeritus Joan Birman
  2. Professor Lue Pan won the 2026 David Goss Prize in Number Theory at JNT Biennial Conference
  3. Professor Joan Birman and collaborators “unraveled a century-old braid mystery”
  4. Professor Andrei Okounkov awarded Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
  5. Simon Brendle elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  6. March 25th COLLOQUIUM: Javier Gómez-Serrano (Brown University)
  7. Spring 2026 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  8. Feb. 26th COLLOQUIUM: Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford)
  9. Feb. 9th COLLOQUIUM: Aaron Landesman (Harvard)
  10. Feb. 6th COLLOQUIUM: Denis Nesterov (ETH Zurich)
  11. Feb. 2nd COLLOQUIUM: Lucas Mason-Brown (Texas)
  12. Jan. 30th COLLOQUIUM: Sky Cao (MIT)

2025 23

  1. Nov. 13th COLLOQUIUM: Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  2. Robert Friedman named AMS Fellow
  3. Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture | Nov. 12: Haruzo Hida (UCLA)
  4. Professor Mehtaab Sawhney awarded 2025 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
  5. Professor Duong Phong appointed as Davies Chair of Mathematics.
  6. SEPT. 3rd COLLOQUIUM: Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
  7. Remembering the Life and Work of Richard Streit Hamilton: Memorial on 9/28/25
  8. Juan Muñoz Echániz (GSAS ’23) awarded 2025 Vicent Caselles Prize by the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society and the BBVA Foundation
  9. George Dragomir honored with 2025 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by Faculty
  10. Michael Harris elected to join the American Philosophical Society
  11. Ioannis Karatzas honored with Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
  12. Michael I. Weinstein elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  13. APRIL 23rd COLLOQUIUM: Artur Avila (IMPA)
  14. Lars Tyge Nielsen Memorial Conference
  15. MARCH 12th COLLOQUIUM: Ishan Levy (Copenhagen)
  16. Spring 2025 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
  17. Spring 2025 Minerva Foundation Lectures
  18. Math Library Ribbon Cutting will be on Wednesday, February 5
  19. Special Colloquium (1/28, Lue Pan)
  20. Special Colloquium (1/23, Alex Smith)
  21. Special Colloquium (1/22, Alex Petrov)
  22. Alum Robin Zhang’s 2023 Columbia PhD thesis awarded the Graduate Thesis Award at the 2024 ICCM for the best PhD theses by mathematicians of Chinese descent
  23. Prof. Francesco Lin awarded The Richard Hamilton Best Paper Award in Geometric Analysis at the 2024 ICCM

2024 26

  1. Professor Dusa McDuff honored with AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
  2. DEC. 4th COLLOQUIUM: Josh Greene (Boston College)
  3. NOV. 20TH COLLOQUIUM: Matthew Emerton (University of Chicago)
  4. NOV. 13TH COLLOQUIUM: Alessio Figalli (ETH)
  5. Richard Streit Hamilton 1943-2024
  6. Ellis R. Kolchin Lecture
  7. In Memoriam: Walter D. Neumann
  8. OCT. 16 COLLOQUIUM: Henri Berestycki (University of Maryland, College Park & EHESS, Paris)
  9. Sept. 25 Colloquium: Josh Alman (Columbia CS)
  10. Professor Richard Hamilton wins Chinese Basic Science Lifetime Award in Mathematics.
  11. Columbia News highlights the experience of Ritt Assistant Professor Amadou Bah
  12. Professor Duong H. Phong elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  13. Incoming Class of 2024
  14. In Memoriam: Lars Tyge Nielsen
  15. postponed/date tbd colloquium: Josh Alman (Columbia CS)
  16. Apr. 17 colloquium: Oscar Randal-Williams (Cambridge)
  17. Feb. 27 colloquium: John Pardon (SCGP)
  18. Elena Giorgi awarded Sloan Fellowship
  19. Feb. 28. colloquium: Hans Ringström (KTH)
  20. Spring 2024 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
  21. Special Colloquium
  22. Special Lecture Series Resumes
  23. Spring 2024 Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series
  24. Special Colloquium
  25. Special Colloquium
  26. January 17: Mehtaab Sawhney (MIT)

2023 24

  1. Abigail Hickok awarded inaugural Babuška Thesis Prize
  2. December 6: Akhil Matthew
  3. November 29: Miguel Walsh
  4. October 18: Maryna Viazovska (EPFL)
  5. October 11: Ezra Getzler
  6. In Memoriam: Professor Henry C. Pinkham
  7. Special Lecture Series: The Count of Instantons
  8. Professor Simon Brendle Wins Breakthrough Prize
  9. Fall 2023 Minerva Foundation Lectures
  10. FALL 2023 SAMUEL EILENBERG LECTURES
  11. Packard Foundation Grant Supports Columbia’s Efforts to Address the Under-representation of Women in Mathematics
  12. In Memoriam – Henry Pinkham
  13. Columbia University Undergraduate Students Win the INFORMS Award & MAA Award
  14. Congratulations to Professor Marcel F. Nutz named IMS Fellow
  15. Incoming class of 2023
  16. Will Sawin awarded Sloan Fellowship
  17. April 19: Tomer Schlank
  18. Spring 2023 JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
  19. April 05: Robert McCann
  20. MARCH 08: CHAO LI
  21. The Universality Phenomenon for Log-Gas Ensembles
  22. Spring 2023 Graduate Topics Courses
  23. The Many Kinds of Uniformity in Graph Configuration Spaces
  24. Surfaces and 4-manifolds

2022 19

  1. “In Memoriam – Igor Krichever”
  2. January 23: Søren Galatius
  3. Professor Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) and Šešum (Rutgers) to Receive 2023 Satter Prize
  4. November 30: FRANCESCO MAGGI
  5. November 02: JAMES MAYNARD
  6. Amol Aggarwal Awarded the 2022 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering
  7. In Memoriam – Steven M. Zelditch
  8. SEPTEMBER 14: Jinyoung Park
  9. FALL 2022 SAMUEL EILENBERG LECTURES
  10. Algebraic Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Solitons “A conference in honor of Professor Igor Krichever”
  11. Reflections on Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups and Singularities “A Conference in Honor of Walter Neumann”
  12. Columbia University Students Placed First in the MCM Competition!
  13. Michael Harris elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  14. Amol Aggarwal Awarded the 2022 Rollo Davidson Prize
  15. Panagiota Daskalopoulos elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!
  16. Ivan Corwin selected as a 2022 Simons Investigator
  17. WELCOME INCOMING CLASS OF 2022!
  18. Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture
  19. Deformations of Geometric Structures in Current Mathematics: “A celebration of the works of Masatake Kuranishi”

2021 11

  1. Congratulations to Professor Aise Johan de Jong for receiving the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition!
  2. Congratulations to Andrew Blumberg and Ivan Corwin, who were both recently selected as the 2022 fellows of the American Mathematical Association!
  3. Congratulations to Will Sawin, winner of the 2021 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize!
  4. Congratulations to Ivan Corwin, who was selected to receive the 2021 Loève Prize in Probability!
  5. Congratulations to Amol Aggarwal on receiving the 2021 IAMP Early Career Award!
  6. In Memoriam – Masatake Kuranishi
  7. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Birman; emeritus research professor, department of mathematics, Barnard College
  8. Incoming class of 2021
  9. January 19: Junliang Shen
  10. January 14: Elena Giorgi
  11. January 12: Daniel Álvarez-Gavela

2020 7

  1. Department Course Offerings for the 2020-21 Academic Year
  2. COVID-19 News and updates
  3. Incoming class of 2020
  4. March 4: Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard)
  5. ANDREI OKOUNKOV ELECTED TO ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
  6. SPRING 2020 SAMUEL EILENBERG LECTURES
  7. Graduate Topics Courses in Spring 2020

2019 23

  1. Dec. 11: Si Li
  2. Oct. 30: Daniel Huybrechts
  3. Fall 2019 JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
  4. Oct. 16: Amol Aggarwal (Harvard)
  5. Fall 2019 Minerva Lectures
  6. Sept. 25: Henry Cohn (Microsoft)
  7. Memorial Conference for Patrick Ximenes Gallagher
  8. Michael Zhao Memorial Fund
  9. Workshop on Free Boundary Problems
  10. Spring 2019 JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
  11. May 01: Gigliola Staffilani (MIT)
  12. Michael Harris elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  13. Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg University)
  14. Spring 2019 Kolchin Lecture
  15. Columbia Summer Math Research Experience for Undergraduates
  16. Feb 27: David Treumann (BC)
  17. Liouville Quantum Gravity As a Metric Space and a Scaling Limit
  18. Cardy Embedding of Random Planar Maps
  19. On the Black Hole Stability Problem
  20. Memorial Service for Michael Zhao
  21. Super-Teichmüller Spaces, Spin Structures, Penner Coordinates, and Applications
  22. Principal Bundles and Diophantine Geometry
  23. Graduate Topics Courses

2018 36

  1. In Memoriam — Michael Zhao
  2. Nov. 7: Robin Pemantle (U Penn)
  3. Fall 2018 Joseph Ritt Lectures
  4. Fall 2018 JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
  5. Oct. 24: Maciej Zworski (Berkeley)
  6. Sep. 26: Ailana Fraser (UBC)
  7. Sep. 12: Bernard Julia (ENS, Paris)
  8. Graduate Topics Courses
  9. Fall 2018 MINERVA LECTURES
  10. Fall 2018 SAMUEL EILENBERG LECTURES
  11. Sept. 5: Jonathan Luk (Stanford)
  12. 2018 REU Presentations
  13. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Dusa McDuff
  14. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Corwin
  15. Math + Democracy
  16. Transport and Localization in Random Media: Theory and Applications
  17. Columbia PROBABILITY COLLOQUIUM
  18. Spring 2018 MINERVA LECTURES
  19. SPRING 2018 KOLCHIN LECTURE
  20. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Weinstein!
  21. Spring 2018 JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
  22. Berkeley–Columbia Meeting in Engineering & Statistics
  23. “Elliptic Curves, Heegner Points, and Beyond”
  24. “The Threshold Theorem for the Hyperbolic Yang-Mills Equation”
  25. “Equivariant Commutative Ring Spectra”
  26. “Estimates for Modular Forms Using Exponential Sums”
  27. “Rare Behavior in Models of Random Geometry”
  28. “Counting in Algebraic Geometry and Modular Forms”
  29. “Homology Cobordism and Pin(2)-monopole Floer Homology”
  30. “Invertibility and Spectrum of Random Matrices: A Convex-Geometric Approach”
  31. “Legendrian Topology and its Applications”
  32. “The Symplectic Isotopy Problem & Lagrangian Skeleta”
  33. “Compact Hyper-Kahler Manifolds in Algebraic Geometry”
  34. “Rational Points in One-Parameter Families”
  35. “Understanding Number Fields Through the Distributions of their Arithmetic Invariants”
  36. “Transport & Localization in Random Media: Theory & Applications”

2017 28

  1. Wei Zhang awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
  2. Simon Brendle awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize
  3. Nov 15:Russel Caflisch (Courant Institute, NYU)
  4. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Abouzaid!
  5. Fall 2017 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
  6. Invidious Comparisons: International politics, the Fields Medal, and the past, present, and future of mathematics, 1936-1966
  7. Oct 11: Alex Wright (Stanford)
  8. Association for Women in Mathematics
  9. Fall 2017 Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series
  10. Fall 2017 Minerva Foundation Lectures
  11. Sept. 6: Sabin Cautis (UBC)
  12. Dyson-Schwinger Equations, Topological Expansions and Random Matrices Lecture
  13. 2017 REU Summer Program Successfully Finalized!
  14. Welcome and Congratulations to the 2017 Cohort of Graduate Students!
  15. Profs. Andrei Okounkov and Wei Zhang to speak at 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians
  16. Simon Brendle selected as a 2017 Simons Investigator
  17. Stacks Project Workshop
  18. Thera Stochastics: A Mathematics Conference in Honor of Ioannis Karatzas
  19. April 19: Jean Bertoin (Zurich)
  20. New York General Relativity Seminar — Spring 2017
  21. April 12: Jeremie Szeftel (UPMC)
  22. April 5: Paul Seidel (MIT and IAS)
  23. Spring 2017 JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES
  24. March 8: Michael Rapoport (Bonn)
  25. Columbia University Symposium on Probability & Society
  26. “The Discrete Charm of Geometry” Film Screening
  27. Feb. 08: Jacob Lurie (Harvard)
  28. Spring 2017 Ellis R. Kolchin Lecture by Prof. Dennis Gaitsgory

2016 25

  1. Prof. Mohammed Abouzaid awarded 2017 New Horizons Prize
  2. Ritt Lectures, Fall 2016, by Prof. Zhiwei Yun
  3. Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon, will receive the 2017 AMS Steele Prize for Exposition
  4. Nov. 30: Aaron Lauda (USC)
  5. Joseph L. Birman 1927-2016
  6. Oct. 26: Sylvia Serfaty (Courant)
  7. Inaugural Fall 2016 Eilenberg Lecture: Thursday, September 8th
  8. Welcome Incoming Class of 2016
  9. Prof. Emerita Joan Birman elected as Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society
  10. Wei Zhang awarded the 2016 ICCM Morningside Gold Medal
  11. Professor Dusa McDuff awarded two Honorary Degrees
  12. Andrei Okounkov elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  13. Spring 2016 Ritt Lectures, by Prof. Umberto Zannier
  14. Spring 2016 Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture
  15. Columbia-Princeton Probability Day 2016
  16. Minerva Foundation Lectures
  17. Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
  18. A Conference in Honor of Dusa McDuff’s 70th Birthday Hosted by Barnard College and Columbia University
  19. Congratulations to Marcel Nutz on winning an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
  20. Spring 2016 Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  21. 2016 REU Program Application now available
  22. Mar 9: Laura DeMarco (Northwestern)
  23. Feb 24: John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
  24. Feb 17: Boris Khesin (Toronto)
  25. Feb 10: Jean-Michel Bismut (Orsay)

2015 26

  1. Professor Dusa McDuff named honorary fellow at Cambridge University’s King’s College
  2. Fall 2015 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures by Prof. Ian Agol
  3. Congratulations to Professor Mohammed Abouzaid, who has been awarded a Simons Collaboration Grant.
  4. Nov. 18: Chang-Shou Lin (National Taiwan U.)
  5. Nov. 11: Vladimir Markovic (Caltech)
  6. October 27: “Colors of Math”
  7. Nov 4: Nathan Dunfield (UIUC)
  8. October 21: Edward Witten (IAS)
  9. Minerva Foundation Lectures
  10. October 14: Oscar Randal-Williams (Cambridge)
  11. Welcome new students!
  12. Perspectives on Complex Algebraic Geometry
  13. Stochastic Portfolio Theory and Related topics
  14. New York General Relativity Seminar – 2015
  15. Daniela de Silva awarded the 2016 AWM-Sadosky Research Prize!
  16. Minerva Foundation Lectures
  17. Minerva Foundation Lectures
  18. May 6: Constantin Teleman (UC Berkeley)
  19. April 1: Steve Zelditch (Northwestern)
  20. Special Day in Geometry and Partial Differential Equations
  21. Spring 2015 Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures
  22. Jennifer Hom awarded Sloan Fellowship
  23. March 25: Dmitri Orlov (Steklov Institute)
  24. Spring 2015 Kolchin Lecture by Prof. Christopher Hacon
  25. February 25: Vladimir Sverak (U. Minnesota)
  26. Spring 2015 Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series

2014 21

  1. February 11: Andrew Blumberg (UT Austin)
  2. Fall 2014 Ritt Lectures by Professor Alain-Sol Sznitman
  3. December 3: Claire Voisin (Jussieu and IAS)
  4. November 5: Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
  5. October 22: Hiraku Nakajima (RIMS)
  6. October 8: Qiang Du (Columbia)
  7. October 1: Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew U. and NYU)
  8. September 24: Van Vu (Yale)
  9. September 10: Jun Li (Stanford)
  10. Ivan Corwin Awarded the 2014 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering
  11. Clément Hongler Awarded The Blavatnik Award
  12. MoSAIC Math & Art Festival
  13. Samuel Eilenberg Lectures
  14. Andrei Okounkov Selected as Simons Investigator
  15. Robert Friedman Awarded the Mark Van Doren Teaching Award
  16. Spring 2014 Kolchin Lecture by Prof. Melvin Hochster
  17. Spring 2014 Ritt Lectures by Prof. Fernando Coda Marques
  18. Spring 2014 Minerva Lecture Series by Prof. Alexei Borodin
  19. Columbia-Princeton Probability Day 2014
  20. Ivan Corwin Awarded the 2014 Rollo Davidson Prize
  21. Spring 2014 Minerva Lecture Series by Prof. Martin Hairer

2013 12

  1. Fall 2013 Ritt Lectures by Professor Sir Simon Donaldson
  2. Eugene Gorsky Awarded 2013 Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society
  3. Six Faculty Members Invited to the 2014 ICM in Seoul, Korea
  4. Fall 2013 Samuel Eilenberg Lecture Series by Prof. Joe Harris
  5. Geometric Topology in New York
  6. Conference in Honor of Duong H. Phong
  7. Dusa McDuff Elected as a Member of the American Philosophical Society
  8. Herve Jacquet & Duong H. Phong Elected as Members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  9. Spring 2013 Ritt Lectures by Prof. Jonathan Pila
  10. 2013 Kolchin Lecture with Prof. Burt Totaro
  11. Wei Zhang wins 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
  12. Rachel Ollivier Awarded Prestigious Grant

2012 19

  1. Ovidiu Savin awarded The Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
  2. Maria Chudnovsky wins 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
  3. Andre Carneiro awarded new department teaching prize
  4. Daniela De Silva recognized for teaching excellence
  5. Ovidiu Savin awarded the Stampacchia Gold Medal
  6. Andrei Okounkov elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  7. Incoming class of 2012
  8. Connor Mooney Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  9. Joan Birman elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  10. Ritt Lectures, Spring 2012, by Pierre Colmez
  11. 2012 Kolchin Lecture, with Prof Tom Bridgeland
  12. Simons Fellows in Mathematics awarded to Johan de Jong and Igor Krichever
  13. Julien Dubedat Awarded the 2011 Salem Prize
  14. Special Day on Complex Geometry and PDE
  15. Columbia-Princeton Probability Day
  16. Sloan Fellowship for Valentino Tosatti
  17. Probability, Control and Finance
  18. NSF Career Grant for Robert Lipshitz
  19. Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2012