What Is the NYU Courant Department of Mathematics Website?

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math.nyu.edu is the homepage of the Department of Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute. It serves as an academic department portal: the place to check departmental news, faculty honors, and the seminar calendar. It is not a course catalog, a degree-program admissions page, or a student services system, so anyone looking for application requirements, registration, or tuition information will need to go elsewhere.

What the homepage actually shows

The page is organized around two blocks: News & Announcements and Upcoming Seminars.

News and faculty recognition

The lead item is a major honor: Hong Wang, Silver Professor of Mathematics, was awarded the Fields Medal at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. The same news stream lists other faculty awards and elections, including:

Faculty Recognition
Vlad Vicol 2025 Fermat Prize; elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sylvia Serfaty 2025 Riemann Prize in Mathematics
Ofer Zeutoni 2026 Paul Lévy Prize
Nina Holden Elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Jalal Shatah 2025 Kuwait Prize for Mathematical Sciences
Arthur Jacot 2025 AMR Prize in the Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence
Eyal Lubetzky 2025 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Jinyoung Park AMS 2025 Levi L. Conant Prize
Marsha Berger 2025 SIAM John von Neumann Prize Lecturer
Hong Wang 2026 Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award
Jeff Cheeger Elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

The announcements section also covers departmental changes, such as the arrival of seven new faculty members for AY 2026–27 and the appointment of Denis Zorin, Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, as Dean of the Courant Institute School.

Seminar listings

The seminar block gives dated, room-level detail. A representative entry from Tuesday, October 20, 2026:

  • Convexity Seminar — "Displacement convexity in electromagnetic optimal transport on Lorentzian manifolds," Rotem Assouline (MIT), 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  • Mostly Biomathematics Lunchtime Seminar and Computational Neuroscience Seminar — "Neural computation of color," Robert Shapley (NYU), 12:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  • Geometry Seminar — "A Lovász-Kneser Theorem for Triangulations," Anton Mo…

Each listing names the seminar series, speaker and affiliation, time, and room, which is what you need to decide whether to attend.

Who this site is for

  • Researchers and graduate students checking talks in convexity, geometry, biomathematics, or computational neuroscience before walking to Warren Weaver Hall.
  • Prospective collaborators or journalists verifying faculty awards and departmental appointments from an official source.
  • Current community members following hires, leadership changes, and prize announcements.

If your task is applying to a program, finding a syllabus, or contacting an advisor, treat this as a starting point only — the department homepage points outward to those services rather than hosting them.

Practical notes

Seminar times and rooms are stated per event, so confirm the date on the calendar rather than assuming a recurring slot. News items are announcements, not full articles; the page links to longer "Read More" pieces for details such as faculty bios.