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The Stanford Math Department & MRC 2025 Fall Public Lecture was held on November 11, 2025. Our speaker, Grant Sanderson, gave a phenomenal talk and pulled in one of the largest audiences we've seen since our Public Lecture series began.
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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 of the Kahn–Kalai conjecture."
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Ravi Vakil, Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics, has been elected president of the American Mathematical Society for 2025-27. Vakil will start his president-elect year in 2024.
Read the full election results for 2023.
Stanford mathematician Jared Duker Lichtman has proven a new world record for the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions, for moduli up to 23% larger than what is implied by the (Generalized) Riemann Hypothesis. This…
On October 17, the School of Humanities and Sciences appointed Ravi Vakil with the Robert Grimmett Professorship in recognition of his academic achievements and commitment to teaching. The Robert Grimmett Chair is an endowed professorship…
Sourav Chatterjee, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Each year, exceptional scientists are elected as fellows to the society which is both the United Kingdom's national academy of…
Amir Dembo, Professor of Mathematics, has been elected to the 2023 class of new members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Each year, the Academy's board elects outstanding leaders in arts, sciences, business and public affairs…
Eleny Ionel, our former department chair and professor of mathematics, has been appointed to the Robert Grimmett Professorship in Mathematics in recognition of her exceptional scholarship. We are also very grateful to Eleny for her numerous…
The Clay Mathematics Institute announced that Huy Pham will receive the 2023 Clay Research Fellowship. The fellowship is five years long and will begin in July. Pham is due to graduate from the department with his PhD in 2023.
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Rafe Mazzeo, current department chair and professor of mathematics, has been appointed to the Cassius Lamb Kirk Professorship in Natural Science in recognition of his achievements in and commitment to the research and teaching of mathematics.…