Please congratulate the recipients of the Department's undergraduate prizes and awards:
David Mumford Undergraduate Mathematics Prize:
from the income of the gift in 1997 of Peter L. Falb, A.B. 1957, A.M.
1957, Ph.D. 1961 to establish the David B. Mumford Undergraduate
Mathematics Prize, to be given annually to the most promising senior
concentrator in mathematics, provided such concentrator is outstanding.
The Mumford Prize will be shared by Peter ChenVaughan McDonald and Filippos Sytilidis
Herb Alexander Award: from the gift of Susan Alexander,
the Herb Alexander Award recognizes each year one of our outstanding
undergraduates, and provides money to be used for research and travel.
The Herb Alexander Award is given this year to Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj
Robert Fletcher Rogers Prizes:
From the income of the gift in 1921 of the late Robert Fletcher Rogers,
A.B. 1886, there have been established a first prize and second prize to
be awarded annually to the College students who present the best talks
before the Mathematics Table during an academic year.
The Robert Fletcher Rogers Prizes are given this year to
First place: Kim Nguyen Second place will be shared by
Savvy Raghuvanshi and Lucy Wang
Friends Prize: Each year, two of our senior thesis writers
are selected to present talks on their theses to the Friends of the
Harvard Math department. The Friends prizes are given this year to
Anne Carlstein and Emily Jian (runner up)
Hoopes Prize Three of our graduating seniors have been
nominated for a Hoopes' Prizes for their theses this year:
Anne Carlstein, Zihong Chen, Emily Jia
Faculty news
It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Jameel Al-Aidroos
passed away on March 18, 2020. Jameel had been a senior preceptor at the
Harvard Math department.
Please join to congratulate the Harvard's team for
finishing second place in this year's Putnam competition.
Harvard ranked second among the 570 participating institutions and Laura Pierson
was named an Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize Winner, an award honoring the
top-performing woman in the competition.
As the second-place team, Harvard receives an award of ,000 and each member of the team receives . Laura Pierson will also receive ,000 for her performance.
See the putnam page.
Results
Congratulations to Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj,
Harvard Undergraduate, who was recently awarded the
Alice T. Schafer Prize
for best woman undergraduate
The prize was awarded at the AMS meeting in January.
Congratulations!
Goss Prize 2019
Congratulations to Alex Smith (a graduate student of the mathematics department) for winning the
first David Goss prize in mathematics.
CDM 2019
Youtube videos of the CDM 2019 conference are
here.
Please join to congratulate the Harvard's team for
finishing second place in this year's Putnam competition.
Harvard ranked second among the 570 participating institutions and Laura Pierson
was named an Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize Winner, an award honoring the
top-performing woman in the competition.
As the second-place team, Harvard receives an award of ,000 and each member of the team receives . Laura Pierson will also receive ,000 for her performance.
See the putnam page.
Results
