The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic
Republic of Iran has awarded Maurice Alex Pomerantz,
Member (2015–16) in the School of Historical Studies, its World
Award for Book of the Year in recognition of Licit Magic: The
Life and...
June Huh, Visiting Professor in
the School of Mathematics, has received the 2019 New Horizons in
Mathematics Prize as part of the Breakthrough Prize series. Huh is
recognized for the development of combinatorial Hodge theory
leading to the...
Masaki Kashiwara,
former Member in the School of Mathematics, has received the 2018
Chern Medal, which is awarded every four years to an individual
whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for
outstanding achievements in the...
Ritabrata Munshi,
former Member in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the
2018 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing
Countries in recognition of his profound contributions to analytic
number theory, in particular to the...
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus
in the School of Natural Sciences, has been honored with the Robert
Heinlein Memorial Award presented by the National Space Society.
The award honors the work he has done as a ground-breaking
physicist and...
Academic Trustee Ewine van Dishoeck has been recognized with the 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry.
On the occasion of the 2018 Abel Prize ceremony, which honored
this year's laureate Professor Emeritus Robert Langlands, Nils Baas, former Member in the Schools
of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, writes in the Norwegian
newspaper Aftenposten,...
Benjamin Greenbaum,
Visitor in the Institute's Simons Center for Systems Biology, is among the seven winners of the
2018 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer
Research, awarded annually to promising early career, New York
City...
Barak Zackay, Member in the
School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded a 2017 Ph.D. Prize by
the International Astronomical Union. The IAU prize recognizes
outstanding scientific achievements in astronomy by Ph.D. students
around the world. Zackay...
Luis Caffarelli, former
Professor in the School of Mathematics (1986–996) and former Member
in the School (2009), has been awarded the 2018 Shaw Prize in
Mathematical Sciences for his groundbreaking work on partial
differential equations, including...