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Zhiwei Yun To Be Awarded AMS Chevalley Prize
The AMS Chevalley Prize will be awarded to Zhiwei Yun (and shared with Tasho Kaletha from U. of Bonn) at the Joint Math Meeting in 2026. Zhiwei Yun is being recognized for his influential contributions to geometric representation theory and its applications to number theory.
The Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory is given biennially for notable work in Lie theory published during the preceding six years. The prize was established in 2014 by George Lusztig to honor Claude Chevalley (1909-1984), a founding member of the Bourbaki group.
Read more about the award at the American Mathematical Society.
Congratulations, Zhiwei!
Semyon Dyatlov Awarded 2026 AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize
Semyon Dyatlov has been awarded another major prize, this time the 2026 AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize (along with Mihalis Dafermos and Jonathan Luk). The Bôcher prize was established more than 100 years ago, and is given every 3 years for outstanding work in analysis. Dyatlov is being recognized for his pioneering work connecting the dynamics of geodesic flows and the behavior of waves (including Laplace eigenfunctions and solutions to the wave equation); this work is developed in a series of 4 papers (co-authored with subsets of Joshua Zahl, Jean Bourgain and Long Jin).
Previous Bôcher prize recipients include several MIT analysts over the last century: Larry Guth (2020), Richard Melrose (1984), Is Singer (1969), Norman Levinson (1953), and Norbert Wiener (1933).
Read more at the American Mathematical Society.
Congratulations, Semyon!
Semyon Dyatlov Awarded 2026 Joseph L. Doob Prize
The 2026 Joseph L. Doob Prize will be awarded to Semyon Dyatlov and Maciej Zworski (UC Berkeley) for their 2019 AMS book, Mathematical Theory of Scattering Resonances. The book has "established itself as the key text on contemporary spectral and scattering theory, magisterially unifying decades of advances into a cohesive, rigorous framework”.
Read more about the award at the American Mathematical Society.
Congratulations, Semyon!
Four Receive 2026 Lusztig and Bershadsky PRIMES Mentorships
Not pictured: Frank Wang
Four members of the MIT Math community were celebrated as the recipients of the 2026 named PRIMES mentorships at our Winter Social on Dec 3.
Three received the Lusztig Mentorship, which is supported by the generosity of George Lusztig through his 2014 Shaw Prize:
Ryan Maguire, a Digital Learning Postdoctoral Associate and Instructor. In 2025, he mentored seven students working on three research groups on Saturn's Rings, Cassini Radio Science, and Jones Polynomial.
Son Nguyen, a graduate student whose main research interest is algebraic combinatorics, specifically Schur positivity and Schubert calculus. He has mentored for UROP, PRIMES, and GUMMI.
Frank Wang, a graduate student whose research interests lie in representation theory, specifically in quantum groups and rational Cherednik algebras. He is a co-organizer of the PuMaGraSS seminar, and has been a mentor for PRIMES, RSI, and GUMMI.
The 2026 Bershadsky Mentor Award, kindly supported by Michael and Victoria Bershadsky, was awarded to Alain Kangabire. Alain is a PhD student, and his research interests are in micro local analysis and dynamical systems. He mentored for various programs including PRIMES, UROP, and RSI. In 2025, he supervised a PRIMES reading group of three students, studying curvature on Riemannian manifolds.
Read more about the mentorship awards on our website.
Congratulations, Ryan, Son, Frank and Alain! Thank you, as well, to George Lusztig, and Michael and Victoria Bershadsky!