PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 15 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: Simon Brendle, professor of mathematics at Columbia University, has been awarded the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for transformative contributions to differential geometry, including sharp geometric inequalities, many results on Ricci flow and mean curvature flow and the Lawson conjecture on minimal tori in the 3-sphere," according to the prize citation. The world's largest sci  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 15 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: Natalie Dean will receive the 2024 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award "for a remarkable record of public engagement providing clear meaning and context to COVID models and predictions through traditional and social media," according to the award citation. Dean is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University's   more