Akshay Venkatesh and Ellen Eischen Among IAS Scholars Named to Class of 2025 AMS Fellows
A number of past and present IAS scholars have been appointed to the 2025 Class of American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellows. Each year, the AMS names as Fellows those who have "made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics."
Among the IAS honorees was Akshay Venkatesh, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics. His research primarily focuses on number theory, but he has also made significant contributions to representation theory, dynamics, and algebraic topology. Venkatesh is known for his ability to approach long-standing problems from novel perspectives, often by synthesizing ideas from seemingly unrelated branches of mathematics.
In addition to Venkatesh, current von Neumann Fellow Ellen Eischen was announced as a Fellow. As outlined in a Q&A published at the start of her IAS Membership, Eischen also works in the field of number theory. She employs algebraic, analytic, and geometric approaches to uncover patterns in numerical data that transcend cultures and bridge disparate fields of mathematics.
Past Members, Visitors, and von Neumann Fellows from the School of Mathematics were also well represented in the Class of 2025 AMS Fellows. This includes Wieslawa Niziol (Visitor 2010; Member 2017, 2024), who is interested in the arithmetic and geometry of p-adic analytic varieties; Emmy Murphy (von Neumann Fellow 2019–20; Visitor 2021–22), who studies symplectic and contact topology; Tom Braden (Member 1995–97, 2021), whose field of study includes topology, representation theory, and combinatorics; Xuhua He (Member 2005–06, 2020–21; von Neumann Fellow 2016–17) who works on algebraic groups, representation theory, and arithmetic geometry; and Matthew Ballard (Member 2016–17), who is interested in derived categories in algebraic geometry.
The list of 2025 Fellows also features Benjamin G. Dodson (von Neumann Fellow and Minerva Research Foundation Member 2018–19), who is interested in dispersive partial differential equations; Nicolaos Kapouleas (Member 1992–93, 1996, 2018), who studies differential geometry and geometric analysis; Sheel Ganatra (Member 2016), who works in the field of symplectic geometry; Radu Laza (von Neumann Fellow 2014–15), who is primarily interested in the construction and compactification of moduli spaces; Yaiza Canzani (Member 2014–15), who is known for her work in mathematical analysis; Florian Herzig (Member 2010–11), who studies generalizations of Serre’s conjecture; and Paul Pollack (Member, 2009), who works in the areas of elementary and analytic number theory.
Bryna Kra, President of AMS, said that she was "delighted to congratulate the 2025 Class of AMS Fellows, recognized for their outstanding contributions to the mathematical sciences and their extraordinary service to the profession." The full list of 2025 Fellows can be found on the American Mathematical Society website.
