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Adityanarayanan “Adit” Radhakrishnan has been awarded the Edmund F. Kelly Research Award.

Periodically, our department gives this award to one or several junior faculty members "in recognition of work that applies mathematical methods in a new area or that offers a fundamentally new perspective on a classical problem."

This award was established in honor of former Liberty Mutual CEO and President Edmund "Ted" Kelly, who received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Sigurdur Helgason in 1970.

Congratulations, Adit!

Gigliola Staffilani has been named as the 2027 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer. The Noether Lecture will be delivered at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2027.

The Emmy Noether Lectures were launched by the AWM in 1980 to "honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences”.

Read more about the announcement at AWM.

Congratulations, Gigliola!

Jacopo Borga has been named as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Sloan Research Fellows are selected from early-career scholars, and honors "exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders”.

Read more about Jacopo's award at MIT News.

Congratulazioni, Jacopo!

Roman Bezrukavnikov and Dor Minzer will be receiving two prizes awarded by the National Academy of Sciences.

Roman Bezrukavnikov will be receiving the 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics for his varied and profound contributions to geometric representation theory. Previous award recipient includes Larry Guth in 2020.

Dor Minzer (together with collaborators Irit Dinur, Subhash Khot, Guy Kindler, and Muli Safra) will be receiving the 2026 Michael and Sheila Held Prize. They are being recognized for their groundbreaking work on the 2-to-2 games theorem. Read more about their work in Quanta magazine.

Congratulations, Roman and Dor!