What News and Awards Are Featured on the NYU Courant Mathematics Homepage?

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The NYU Courant Department of Mathematics homepage leads with 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 page also lists a run of other faculty prizes and academy elections, and it points readers to a News & Announcements section for the full set of items. If you are checking the department's recent standing or looking for notable faculty achievements, the homepage banner and that news section are the two places to look.

The headline award

The most prominent item is Hong Wang's Fields Medal, announced at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians. The page also notes a second 2026 honor for Wang: the Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award from the Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation.

Other prizes and elections listed

The homepage rounds up additional faculty recognition across several years and organizations:

Faculty member 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 Named 2025 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Jinyoung Park AMS 2025 Levi L. Conant Prize
Marsha Berger 2025 SIAM John von Neumann Prize Lecturer
Jeff Cheeger Elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Department news beyond awards

The News & Announcements section carries items that are not prizes, including:

  • A welcome to seven new faculty members for academic year 2026–27, with short bios of their backgrounds and research interests.
  • The announcement that Denis Zorin, Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, will serve as Dean of the Courant Institute School.

Where to find more

The homepage presents these as highlights and links onward with a More News option, so the listed items are a selection rather than the complete record. For the full archive of announcements, follow the News & Announcements section from the department homepage. The same page also lists Upcoming Seminars with dates, speakers, and room locations (for example, sessions in Warren Weaver Hall 1314), which is useful if you want to attend a talk rather than just read about awards.