Recent awards
Past undergraduate awards (McShane, Floyd, and Putnam prizes)
Karen Parshall elected Fellow of AAAS
November 24, 2020
Congratulations to Commonwealth Professor of Mathematics and History Karen Parshall who was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics, combined with extraordinary service to the mathematical and historical sciences.”
Ken Ono is Named Among the Most Influential Mathematicians
November 13, 2020
Ken Ono, Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, has been named the 15th most influential mathematician by Academic Influence. Read more at UVA Research Development.
Morse
November 1, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Morse for being elected to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the AMS, “for contributions to algebraic combinatorics and representation theory and service to the mathematical community”.
Ken Ono awarded Honorary Professorship at IIT Guwahati
October 28, 2020
We are pleased to announce that Professor Ken Ono was awarded Honorary Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
Rostislav Akhmechet wins Jefferson dissertation year fellowship
April 21, 2020
Congratulations to Ross Akhmechet who was awarded a Jefferson dissertation year fellowship for next year!
2020 Undergraduate Award Winners
April 20, 2020
The Mathematics Department is pleased to announce the following prize winners for the 2019-2020 year:
- E.J. McShane Prize:
- Sebastian Haney
- Trent Lucas
- Edwin E. Floyd Prize:
- Nathan Li
- Zach Baugher
Sarasij Maitra wins 2020 All-University Graduate Teaching Award
April 18, 2020
We are happy to announce that Sarasij Maitra, a graduate student at Department of Mathematics, is one of this year’s winners for the All-University Graduate Teaching Award. This award honors students from all disciplines who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in undergraduate instruction, and include a $500 prize.
Paul Bourdon and Sara Maloni Win 2020 All-University Teaching Awards
April 9, 2020
We are happy to announce that Sara Maloni and Paul Bourdon are receiving University of Virginia All-University Teaching Awards. They are among this year’s group of ten recipients. See the announcement.
Undergraduate Jiayi Wang received an award at the JMM 2020 in Denver
February 6, 2020
Jiayi Wang received an “Outstanding Poster” award at the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session at the JMM 2020 in Denver, Colorado, for the work “Balance between the coherence of the vorticity direction and the vorticity magnitude in the fractional Navier-Stokes equations” (advisor Z. Grujic). A companion paper is at the arXiv
Ken Ono was elected Chair of the Mathematics Section of AAAS
January 30, 2020
Ken Ono was elected Chair of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Popular Mechanics honors Ken Ono and Andrew Booker for the top two math breakthroughs in 2019
January 7, 2020
In a recent Popular mechanics article UVa faculty member Ken Ono was honored along with co-authors Michael Griffin, Larry Rolen, and Don Zagier for their work on a problem directly related to the Riemann Hypothesis. UVa graduate and McShane Prize winner Andrew Booker was cited along with Andrew Sutherland for work leading to the long-sought integer solutions to $x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 33$ and $x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42$. Booker will be the speaker at the Math Major dinner on April 16, 2020.
Leonid Petrov will receive the 2020 Bernoulli Prize for a joint paper
December 19, 2019
The Bernoulli Prize for an Outstanding Survey Article is to recognize authors of an influential survey publication in probability. The 2020 prize is given to Alexei Borodin (MIT) and Leonid Petrov (UVA) for the article Integrable probability: From representation theory to Macdonald processes. Probability Surveys, v.11:1-58, 2014.
Huanchen Bao and Weiqiang Wang Will Receive the 2020 Chevalley Prize
November 7, 2019
The 2020 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory will be awarded to Huanchen Bao and Weiqiang Wang for their fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum symmetric pairs.