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Professor Dan Ketover has won a Frontiers of Science award for his paper with Y. Liokumovich "The Smale conjecture and min-max theory"

Professor Sheila Tabanli has been named NJ STEM Pathways STEM Educator of the Year, an award recognizing educators who demonstrate exceptional commitment to advancing STEM learning and expanding access for diverse student populations. Tabanli's teaching focuses on supporting students’ development as confident, resilient learners in mathematics. From https://njbmagazine.com/njb-news-now/nj-stem-month-2026-launches-with-call-to-engage-60000-learners/

From https://mathinstitutes.org/highlights/research-highlight-mathematical-analysis-of-many-body-quantum-simulation-with-coulomb-potentials: Professor Soffer's joint work with Fang and Wu was this month's featured research.

The Chancellor Award for Excellence in Broadening STEM Access, awarded to Melissa Lieberman, Associate Teaching Professor, Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences. https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/chancellor/faculty-excellence-awards Professor Lieberman piloted project-based versions of our algebra skills courses (with Professors Echeverria and Ellis) which have dramatically improved pass rates.  She revised  a sequence of courses intended for students in non-STEM majors that doubled the number of...

SAS 2025 Staff Excellence Recognition Award Laurie A. Salvemini, Business Specialist Department of Mathematics Laurie is recognized for her exceptional leadership and operational excellence in managing the full life cycle of grant administration for the Department of Mathematics. Supporting approximately fifty grant submissions each year, Laurie develops compliant budgets, prepares complex proposals, and ensures timely, accurate submissions—even during peak seasons—earning the deep trust of...

Congratulations to Professor Liping Liu, who has been named a Fellow of the Society for Engineering Science! https://imechanica.org/ses-medalists-and-fellows More about Professor Liu's research on mechanics and materials --- multiscale-multiphysics analysis and modeling, optimal design of multiphase and multifunctional composites, and theoretical and computational material science -- may be found at https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~ll502/.  

Professor Sheila Tabanli was interviewed by Bonni Stachowiak in her podcast “teaching in higher ed “, on inclusive teaching practices: Link: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/overcoming-the-curse-of-expertise-and-other-ways-to-be-inclusive-in-our-teaching-with-sheila-tabanli/

The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Fioralba Cakoni will be the 2026 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, July 6 –10, 2026. A full press release is attached. The Kovalevsky Lecture honors Sonia Kovalevsky (1850–1891), the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late-nineteenth century. In 1874,...

Professor Maxime van de Moortel has won a Sloan Research Fellowship.   Dr. van de Moortel’s field of mathematical research is the analysis of hyperbolic and dispersive partial differential equations, and in particular the types of partial differential equations that come from problems in Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Dr. van de Moortel has made progress on some of the hardest singularity problems in mathematical relativity, as in particular Penrose’s Strong Cosmic Censorship (SCC)...

Professor Lisa Carbone was interviewed recently by Google on the use of Gemini 3 Deep Think to advance mathematical research. ttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/8s4W5o76yZQ More information about her research can be found on Professor Carbone's web page https://lisacarbonemath.org/.

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Fioralba Cakoni who has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Inverse Problems, the leading "interdisciplinary journal combining mathematical and experimental papers on inverse problems with theoretical, numerical and practical approaches to their solution"! https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/inverse-problems/editorial-board/

Congratulations to Iñigo Urtiaga Erneta, Hill Assistant Professor, on the award of a Vicent Caselles prize!    A translation of the prize citation from the BBVA Foundation reads: Iñigo Urtiaga Erneta, Hill Assistant Professor/Postdoctoral Researcher at Rutgers University (New Jersey, United States), completed a double degree in Physics and Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a Master's degree at the University of Bonn, and a PhD again at the UPC. His research focuses on...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Dennis Kriventsov and Hill Assistant Professor Abhishek Mallick on their receipt of 2025 Frontiers of Science Awards for their  joint papers  Regularity for shape optimizers: the degenerate case, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 2019, Regularity for shape optimizers: the nondegenerate case, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 2018,  Dennis Kriventsov (Rutgers University) Fanghua Lin (NYU) The (2,1)-cable of the figure-eight knot is...

Congratulations to Hill Assistant Professor Izar Alonso Lorenzo who was awarded the Vicent Caselles prize of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society and the BBVA Foundation (this is a PhD prize for Spanish mathematicians under 30 years old).

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Alex Kontorovich and Associate Professor Mariusz Mirek on their invitations to speak at the 2026 ICM in Philadelphia.  Congratulations also to Professor Friedrich Knop, a long time Rutgers faculty member who is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Erlangen.  From https://www.icm2026.org/event/ac193975-5d24-4628-8c30-ddb23de19a8b/speakers. Rutgers, New Brunswick, will host two satellite conferences for the 2026 ICM: The Analysis of Partial...

Congratulations to Professor Vidit Nanda of Oxford University, a Rutgers 2012 PhD, for winning one of this year's Whitehead Prizes.  Dr. Nanda's dissertation at Rutgers was supervised by Prof. Konstantin Mischaikow.  From https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72373: Vidit Nanda is a Professor of Mathematics at  Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College. He works at the interface of algebraic topology, geometry and data science and is a member of the Data Science, Topology and Geometry groups in Oxford Mathematics. He previously...

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Emeritus Eduardo Sontag for his election to the National Academy of Sciences.  Read more at https://www.nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-election/.

"Over the last year, five women faculty members in the Department of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences, received external honors, including appointments to prestigious scholarly associations and awards for research excellence. In addition, one of the department’s recent graduates won an award from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation."  - From https://sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/faculty/faculty-news-detail/women-mathematicians-thrive-at-rutgers-continuing-a-tradition-from-the-1960s.