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Meet the 2022 Teaching and Mentoring Award Winners
Congratulations to Professors Abhijit Champanerkar, Anna Indych-Lopez, and Barbara Katz Rothman, and to students and recent graduates Filip Bergabo, Cristina Pardo Porto, and Karyna Pryiomka.
$900K Grant Strengthens CUNY as a Hub for the Theoretical Sciences
Simons Foundation funds student fellowships and programming at the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences.
Seungwon Kim and team solve a 40-year-old problem in topology
The mathematics alumnus helped show that certain 2D objects remain distinct in 4D space.
Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan Awarded the 2022 Abel Prize for Mathematics
The prize is equivalent to a Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
Mathematician Jason Behrstock Is Named a Simons Foundation Fellow
The competitive fellowship, Behrstock’s second from the Simons Foundation, will support his sabbatical research on theoretical mathematics.
Mathematics Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Postdoc Fellowship
Joe Bonninger was awarded a competitive National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship to work at Boston College after he graduates in June 2022.
Science Student Spotlight: Joe Boninger
Joe Boninger, GC Math Graduate Student Awarded Prestigious NSF Postdoc Fellowship
WELCOMING OUR POST-DOC, EMMA BAILEY!
Emma Bailey, Research Associate officially started her 2–3-year Post-Doc with the Ph.D. Program in Mathematics at GC January 2022. She is generally situated within the probability group and will be closely working with Louis-Pierre Arguin (and his students). Emma will...
IN MEMORIAM: PROFESSOR EMERITUS ALPHONSE T. VASQUEZ
The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Emeritus Alphonse T. Vasquez (Mathematics), who died on October 14, 2021, after a long illness. Vasquez was appointed to the Graduate Center mathematics faculty as an associate professor...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Ilya Kapovich
Ilya Kapovich received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996 under the direction of Gilbert Baumslag. Subsequently, Ilya held postdoctoral positions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Rutgers University. From 2000 to 2018, he...