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The Mathematics Department awarded the 2024 Mathematics Distinguished Service Award to three graduates. This award has been established to recognize students who, through their service, have made…

Math majors Shaunak Bhandarkar, Owen Brass and Benjamin Pryzybocki were awarded for their honors thesis work this year. Shaunak Bhandarkar was awarded the George Pólya Prize for his thesis,…

Stanford Mathematics is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients of the Pólya Teaching Fellow Award (Haoya Li and Pranav Nuti) and the Robert Osserman Teaching Award (Andrew Lin, Nikhil Pandit and…

Jared Duker Lichtman, Stanford Math NSF Postdoc and incoming Szego Assistant Professor, has been awarded the 2023 University of Oxford DPhil prize in the pure mathematics category.This prize was…

The Stanford Report has published their profile of Professor Tadashi Tokieda, delving into his "magic show" lectures and highlighting how he captivates students with mathematics.You can read the full…

The Hertz Fellowship is awarded to students who demonstrate extraordinary potential to become foremost leaders in their fields and tackle significant challenges facing the nation and the world.…

Andrei Mandelshtam, a Stanford University undergraduate math major and coterminal computer science MS student, has been awarded a 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.This scholarship provides support…

Sourav Chatterjee, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has been elected to the 2024 class of new members  of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Individuals elected to the American…

Huy Pham, a Visiting Clay Scholar and Stanford Science Fellow, and Jinyoung Park, a former Szëgo Assistant Professor, have been awarded the Dénes König Prize for 2024 for their joint paper, "A proof…

Stanford’s Putnam Team (Quanlin Chen, Andrei Mandelshtam and Jack Albright) have placed 4th in the 2023 Putnam competition. Fifty-one Stanford undergraduates participated in the competition, and 17…