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Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan Awarded the 2022 Abel Prize for Mathematics
The prize is equivalent to a Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
Science Student Spotlight: Joe Boninger
Joe Boninger, GC Math Graduate Student Awarded Prestigious NSF Postdoc Fellowship
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...
Alumna Viveka Erlandsson Wins the Anne Bennett Prize From the London Mathematical Society
By Lida Tunesi Viveka Erlandsson (Ph.D. ’13, Mathematics) was awarded the Anne Bennett Prize by the London Mathematical Society “for her outstanding achievements in geometry and topology and her inspirational active role in promoting women mathematicians.” “In a short period...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Jason Behrstock
Jason Behrstock is a mathematician who actively works in the areas of topology, geometry, and probabilistic combinatorics, with a special emphasis on how geometric group theory ties these areas together. Behrstock has made a number of celebrated contributions to the...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Christina Sormani
Christina Sormani is a Full Professor of Mathematics at Lehman College and a member of the doctoral faculty in the Mathematics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research is in the fields of Geometric Analysis and Mathematical General Relativity...
Science Student Spotlight: Alexander Stas
Alexander Stas, who goes by AJ, finished his Ph.D. in Mathematics in Spring 2020 under the supervision of Professor Abhijit Champanerkar (GC/CSI, Mathematics). In December 2020, AJ will begin his postdoctoral career at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...
Science Student Spotlight: Tai-Danae Bradley
Tai-Danae Bradley is currently a postdoc at X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X). She finished her Ph.D. in Mathematics in Spring 2020 under the supervision of Professor John Terilla (GC/Queens, Mathematics). Her research interests lie in the intersection of...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Mahmoud Zeinalian
Mahmoud Zeinalian received his PhD in Mathematics from CUNY Graduate Center in 2001 and is currently an adjunct member of its doctoral faculty. He fell in love with math while growing up in Tehran where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan, a theoretical mathematician who has specialized in topology, geometry, dynamical systems, quantum theory, and fluid dynamics, was named Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) in 1981. Sullivan’s work has been acknowledged by the 2014 Balzan Prize for Mathematics...