# Recent awards

## 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!

###### 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

## 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.