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In the meantime, please click here to read about Louis' outstanding life and career. Legion of Honor Yann LeCun has been named a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Congratulations! Official announcement Article in Paris Match Sloan Fellowship Daniele Panozzo has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship for his work in solving partial differential equations on complex geometrical domains. Congratulations! More information can be found here Yann LeCun, receives the ACM A.M. Turing Award! Congratulations, Yann! See the NYU press release for more information. 2019 Holiday Lecture Steven Strogatz, Cornell University Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus Friday, December 13 More information can be found here Vlad Vicol is a recipient of the 2019 Clay Research Award Vlad Vicol received the 2019 Clay Research Award, along with Tristan Buckmaster and Philip Isett For further information, please read the CMI citation . NYU Courant mourns the loss of alum Dr. Burt Morse Dr. Morse earned his doctoral degree in Mathematics from NYU Courant in 1963. For further information, please read the obituary of Dr. Morse . Silver Professor Margaret Wright is the recipient of the John von Neumann Prize Congratulations, Margaret! Read More Two Courant faculty invited to speak at the 2019 ICIAM Marsha Berger and Sylvia Serfaty have been invited to speak at the 2019 International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Valencia, Spain. Denis Zorin receives ACM Computer Graphics Achievement Award Denis Zorin has received the 2019 Computer Graphics Achievement Award "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to computer graphics and geometric modeling." Congratulations! Joan Bruna and Leif Ristroph receive CAREER Awards Joan Bruna and Leif Ristroph are recipients of National Science Foundation CAREER Awards! Congratulations to Joan and to Leif! Marsha Berger awarded Norbert Wiener Prize Marsha Berger will be awarded the 2019 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics for her fundamental contributions to adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and to Cartesian mesh techniques for automating the simulation of compressible flows in complex geometry. Congratulations, Marsha! Julia Kempe elected to Academia Europaea Congratulations to Julia Kempe, Director of the NYU Center for Data Science and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, on being elected as a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)! Sylvia Serfaty named a Simons Investigator Congratulations to Sylvia Serfaty on being named a 2018 Simons Investigator! For further information, please see the list of Simons Investigator awardees . Olof Widlund named 2019 AMS Fellow Olof Widlund, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science & Mathematics has been named a 2019 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . Congratulations, Olof! Read More Paul Bourgade, Poincaré Chair laureate Paul Bourgade has been selected as one of two laureates of the Poincaré Chair for the academic year 2018/2019. Congratulations, Paul! Serfaty, Shelley, and Zeitouni elected to AMACAD Professors Sylvia Serfaty, Michael Shelley, and Ofer Zeitouni have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD). For more information, please see the press release from the Academy. Congratulations! Jeff Cheeger awarded Steele Prize Silver Professor of Mathematics, Jeff Cheeger, has received the 2019 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for his fundamental contributions to geometric analysis and their far-reaching influence on related areas of mathematics. Congratulations, Jeff! Brandon Seward awarded 2018 Brin Prize Congratulations to Brandon Seward on receiving the 2018 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians . Read More Percy Deift receives 2018 Henri Poincaré Prize Percy Deift has been awarded the 2018 Henri Poincaré Prize. Congratulations, Percy! For further information, please see the official Henri Poincaré Prize page . Oded Regev receives Gödel Prize Oded Regev has been awarded the 2018 Gödel Prize for his 2005 paper, "On lattices, learning with errors, random linear codes, and cryptography." Read More 2018 Sloan Fellows Congratulations to our 2018 Sloan Fellows: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Afonso Bandeira, and Joan Bruna! For further information, see the Sloan Foundation website . Nader Masmoudi receives Fermat Prize Nader Masmoudi has been awarded the 2017 Fermat Prize by the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse for "his very deep and creative work in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations." Congratulations! Patrick Cousot awarded John von Neumann Medal Patrick Cousot is the recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann medal, given "for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology". Read More Sylvain Cappell to receive AMS award for public service Congratulations to Sylvain Cappell, recipient of the 2018 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service ! Sylvain will officially receive the award on January 11, 2018 at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations to Kyunghyun Cho, who represents NYU as 1 of 15 CIFAR Azreli Global Scholars! For further information, please see the press release . Four Courant faculty to speak at the 2018 ICM Paul Bourgade , Nader Masmoudi , Sylvia Serfaty , and Lai-Sang Young have been invited to speak at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio. -- Subhash Khot elected Fellow of the Royal Society Subhash Khot has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his outstanding contribution to science. Please click here for more information from the Royal Society. Yann LeCun elected to NAE Yann LeCun has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for developing convolutional neural networks and their applications in computer vision and other areas of artificial intelligence." Louis Nirenberg awarded the 2015 Abel Prize Louis Nirenberg and John Nash have been awarded the 2015 Abel Prize "for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis." -- Previous Next Seminars and Events Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar WWH 517, 11:00AM Outer billiards Richard Schwartz, Brown Computer Science Colloquium 60FifthAve 150, 2:00PM A Variational Perspective on Optimization, Sampling, and Games for Machine Learning Andre Wibisono, Georgia Institute of Technology Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium WWH 1302, 3:30PM Coupled Air-Sea Modeling and Data Assimilation for Tropical Cyclone Prediction Xingchao Chen, Penn State Thursday, February 27, 2020 Analysis Seminar WWH 1302, 11:00AM Validity of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Approximation for the Two-Dimensional Water Wave Problem With and Without Surface Tension Wolf-Patrick DUELL, Universitaet St...