The Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement is the Academy’s premier recognition of excellence in scholarship. This prestigious annual prize, open to scholars across diverse fields and disciplines, honors those whose work has made outstanding contributions to humanity’s knowledge, appreciation, and cultivation of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
You can read more about it here.
The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.
See the Fellows of the AMS page for further information.
UC Berkeley mathematicians paid tribute to Alexandre Chorin, a longtime faculty member whose work underlies modern computational fluid dynamics. Chorin passed away on October 19 at the age of 88.
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UC Berkeley is welcoming a powerhouse lineup of trailblazing scientists to advance its research enterprise.
The Division of Mathematical & Physical Sciences has completed six searches for new faculty members. All six will join UC Berkeley as assistant professors: Aaron Calderon, Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, and Kevin Yang in the Department of Mathematics and Ethan Lake, Carolina Figueiredo, and Patrick Ledwith in the Department of Physics.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Michael Hutchings and Professor Nicolai Reshetikhin for their election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: CLASS I – Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
You can read more about their election on the Academy's announcement page: https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2026
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Associate Professor Yunqing Tang for winning the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize. Congratulations!
You can read more about it in the Breakthrough Prize Announces 2026 Laureates: https://breakthroughprize.org/News/98.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Sung-Jin Oh for being named a laureate of the 2026 Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Physics and Mathematics.
You can read more about this great honor here: https://www.hoamfoundation.org/eng/award/thisyear.asp
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Lin Lin for his selection to the 2026 Class of SIAM Fellows. Congratulations!
To read more about Professor Alexander Paulin's article, please visit:
How UC Berkeley is closing the math readiness gap
by Alexander Rony
Today is Big Give, the UC Berkeley community's annual opportunity to give back to the departments and programs closest to their hearts.
We hope you participate in Big Give by supporting the Math Department. This year, we are raising funds for two important areas.
The Friends of Mathematics Fund will enhance all facets of the department's activities, from enabling undergraduates to organize student groups to innovating the facilities where we investigate a multitude of mathematical problems.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The competition consists of two 3-hour sessions, during each session, participants work individually on 6 challenging mathematical problems.
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Theodore Danial, Zening Xuan
Another exciting year is coming to a close, and with that, we're happy to share our newsletter with our community, alumni and friends.
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to share the announcement of the 2026 Clay Research Fellows Oliver Edtmair and Qiuyu Ren. Edtmair received his PhD from Berkeley in 2024 supervised by Professor Michael Hutchings and is now at ETH Zurich, and Ren is receiving his PhD this Spring 2026 under the supervision of Professor Ian Agol.
Congratulations to both of them!
You can read more here: https://www.claymath.org/news/2026-clay-research-fellows/.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates its distinguished alumnus, Dr. San Ling, recipient of the Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award!
Please join the Department of Mathematics in congratulating Professor Wencai Liu, who is a visiting Miller professor this year, was awarded the AMS Centennial Research Fellowship.
You can read more about it here: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7585.
Please join the Departmentr of Mathematics in congratulating Professor Vadim Gorin on being awarded the 2026 AMS-EMS Mikhail Gordin Prize.
You can read more about that here: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7558.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Maciej Zworski on being awarded the 2026 Joseph L. Doob Prize, along with Semyon Dyatlov. Read more about it here: News from the AMS.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Yunqing Tang on being awarded the 2026 AMS Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory, along with Frank Calegari (who got his PhD from our department) and Vesselin Dimitrov. You can read more about it: AMS Newsroom.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Profeessor Sug Woo Shin on being elected a 2026 Fellow of the AMS.
You can read more about it: https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows_by_year.cgi
The Distinguished Scientist Award will be awarded to a researcher who has made significant contributions in the area of inverse problems.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor Alberto Grünbaum for being awarded the IoP (Institute of Physics, England) Distinguished Scientist Award. More details about the award can be found onthe 2025 Applied Inverse Problems announcements.