The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as recipients of the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders. Past Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to notable careers and include such intellectual giants as physicists Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, and game theorist John Nash.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics to Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, “for the development of contact and symplectic topology and groundbreaking discoveries of rigidity and flexibility phenomena…” .   The Crafoord Prize carries with it a generous monetary award of 6 million Swedish Kronor (US$700,000)   official announcement

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Assistant Professor Thomas Church was named a Terman Fellow for three years beginning Fall 2015. He joins fellow Stanford Math faculty members Ravi Vakil (2003–2004), Simon Brendle (2005–2006), and Søren Galatius (2007–2010) as recipients.   The Terman Fellowship is a prestigious award for junior faculty. The Terman Fellows program was launched in 1994 with a $25 million gift from William Hewlett and David Packard. The two alumni of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford and founders of the Hewlett-Packard Co.

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The Kamil Duszenko Prize was established in 2015 by Kamil’s mother, Izabela Mironowicz. The aim of the Prize is to honor a young scientist whose mathematical research has brought outstanding results, deepening the actual state of knowledge and broadening its future perspectives. The Prize is granted by the Foundation of the Mathematicians of Wrocław and is awarded at least once in two years, the first time in 2015.

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This award recognizes faculty for their lifetime dedication and commitment to outstanding teaching. Congratulations to Professor Schoen on this richly deserved honor!

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