Recent Faculty Honors
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| 2008 | ||
| Eric Carlen | was awarded a Chaire d'
Excellence Pierre de Fermat for a
research visit to the Université de Toulouse. |
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| YanYan Li | received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence
in Research. |
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| Richard Lyons | was named Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (U.K.).
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| Endre Szemerédi, | Professor of Computer Science and Associate Member of the
Department of Mathematics, received the American Mathematical Society's Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, among the highest distinctions in mathematics, and was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. more details |
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| Wolmer Vasconcelos | received the Rutgers-New Brunswick
Graduate School Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
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| Van Vu | will receive the 2008 George Pólya Prize of the Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics. |
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| Michael Weingart | received an Award for Distinguished Contributions to
Undergraduate Education from the Rutgers-New Brunswick
School of Arts and Sciences. |
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| 2007 | ||
| Haim Brezis | received an Honorary Doctorate from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi
Avanzati in Trieste. |
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| Gregory Cherlin | was named Docteur Honoris Causa by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Communiqué | |
| Adrien Deloro | was awarded the 2007 Sacks Prize of the Association for Symbolic Logic, for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation of the year in mathematical logic. | |
| Richard Falk | received the
Daniel
Gorenstein Memorial Award of Rutgers University. |
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| Giovanni Gallavotti | was awarded the Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. | |
| Simon Gindikin | received the Pamětní
Medal of Palacký
University (Czech Rep.) |
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| János Komlós | received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to
Undergraduate Education of the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
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| Joel Lebowitz | received the
Max
Planck Medal of the German Physical Society. more details |
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| Héctor Sussmann | received the W.T. and
Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics
of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians.
more details |
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| 2006 | ||
| Haim Brezis | was named Honorary Professor at
Beijing Normal
University. |
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| Amy Cohen | was named a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of
Science. |
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| Henryk Iwaniec | was elected to membership in the
National Academy of Sciences, and gave a Plenary Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid. |
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| Martin David Kruskal | received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, of the American Mathematical Society. | |
| Richard Lyons | received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in
Research. |
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| Avraham Soffer | gave an Invited Lecture in the
Mathematical Physics Section at the International
Congress of Mathematicians. |
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| Simon Thomas | gave an Invited Lecture in the
Logic and Foundations Section at the International
Congress of Mathematicians. |
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| 2005 | ||
| Jószef Beck | was named a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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| Israel Gelfand | received the
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement,
of the American Mathematical Society. |
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| Simon Gindikin | was appointed a Rutgers University Board of Governors
Professor of Mathematics. |
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| Henryk Iwaniec | received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Université
Bordeaux 1. |
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| Barbara Osofsky | received a
Certificate of Meritorious Service
of the Mathematical Association of America. |
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| Eduardo Sontag | received the Rutgers Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award, the only
one awarded to a New Brunswick/Piscataway faculty member in 2005. He
was cited in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the
area of control theory, his patient, enthusiastic, and stimulating
teaching and his extraordinary ability to motivate students to
achieve at the highest level.
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| Doron Zeilberger | received the 2004 Euler Medal from the Institute of
Combinatorics and its Applications.
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| 2004 | ||
| Haim Brezis | was elected Vice-President of the American Mathematical
Society, for the term February 1, 2005 - January 31, 2008. |
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| Amy Cohen | received the Mathematical Association of America-NJ Public
Service Award. |
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| Israel Gelfand | was elected to membership in the European Academy of Sciences. |
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| Simon Gindikin | received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in
Research. |
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| Stephen Greenfield | was named the 2004 New Jersey Professor of the Year by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE).
more details. |
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| Martin David Kruskal | was one of nine recipients of the Eminent Scientists Award of the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.. |
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| Joel Lebowitz | received the 2004 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, of
the American Physical Society. He was cited for
his tireless personal activism, throughout his superb career as a
theoretical physicist, to help scientists and defend their human
rights in countries around the globe. |
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| Michael Saks | and Fotios Zaharoglou received the 2004 Gödel
prize for their paper Wait-Free k-Set Agreement is
Impossible: The Topology of Public Knowledge (SIAM
J. Computing, 2000). Citation |
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| François Treves | received the "Laurea Specialistica Honoris Causa in Matematica"
from the University of Pisa. A conference was also held in his
honor, April 23, 2004, at the University of Pisa. |
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| 2003 | ||
| Haim Brezis | was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. | |
| Stephen Greenfield | received the Distinguished Teaching Award of the New Jersey
Section of the Mathematical Association of America. |
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| Martin David Kruskal | received the 2003 Maxwell Prize of the International Council
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He was cited for
discovering the particle-like behavior of solitary waves, which he
named `solitons'; for introducing the inverse scattering transform
method of solving the initial-value problem for the KdV equation;
and for many other contributions to applied mathematics. |
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| Stephen Miller | won an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. |
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| Jean Taylor | delivered the Emmy Noether Lecture (Five little crystals and
how they grew) of the Association of Women
in Mathematics. She also was elected to a 5-year term as Trustee of the American Mathematical Society. |
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| François Treves | was elected a Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of
Sciences. |
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| Wolmer Vasconcelos | was elected a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. |
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| 2002 | ||
| Haim Brezis | received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leiden,
The Netherlands. |
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| Henryk Iwaniec | received the Cole
Prize in Number Theory, for his "fundamental contributions to
analytic number theory." This prize is awarded
by the American Mathematical Society every three years. more details |
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| YanYan Li | gave an Invited Lecture in the Partial
Differential Equations Section at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in Beijing. |
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| Xiaochun Rong | gave an Invited Lecture in the Differential
Geometry Section at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in Beijing. |
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| Eduardo Sontag | received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for
Excellence in Research. He also received the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize of the Control Systems Society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). This prize recognizes distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. The awardee delivers a plenary address at the annual Conference on Decision and Control. |
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| Christopher Woodward | was awarded a Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research
Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. |
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| 2001 | ||
| Haim Brezis | received an honorary degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. | |
| Henryk Iwaniec | received the 2001 Ostrowski
Prize. |
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| Martin David Kruskal | was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. |
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| Joel Lebowitz | received a Teaching Award from the Graduate School-New
Brunswick.
more details He also received the Vito Volterra Medal of the Academia Nazionale de Lincei, Rome. |
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| Fred Roberts | received the Science and Technology Centers Pioneer Award
of the National Science Foundation. more
details |
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| Saharon Shelah | received the Wolf Prize in
Mathematics. |
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| Eduardo Sontag | received the Reid Prize in Applied Mathematics from the Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
more details |
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| Jean Taylor | received an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Holyoke College.
more
details |
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| Christopher Woodward | was awarded a 5-year Career Grant by the National Science
Foundation. |
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| 2000 | ||
| Felix Browder | received the
National Medal of Science. more
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| Amy Cohen | received the Douglass Medal for outstanding service to the
Douglass community. |
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| Roe Goodman | received the FAS Teaching Award for full Professors. |
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| Stephen Greenfield | received the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
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| Xiaojun Huang | was awarded a Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research
Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. |
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| Henryk Iwaniec | received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in
Research. |
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| Martin David Kruskal | received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Heriot-Watt
University. He was also honored with KRUSKAL 2000, at the University of Adelaide, Australia, a Conference on Integrable Systems in Celebration of Martin David Kruskal's 75th Birthday. |
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| Joel Lebowitz | received the Henri
Poincaré Prize of the International Association of
Mathematical Physics and the Daniel Iagolnitzer Foundation. Laudatio |
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| Xiaochun Rong | was named a "Cheung Kong Scholar" by Li Ka Shing Foundation,
Hong Kong.
more
details |
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| Saharon Shelah | received the János Bolyai International Mathematical
Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
more
details |
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| Héctor Sussmann's | paper "Controllability of Nonlinear Systems" was selected to
appear in the IEEE volume Twenty-Five Seminal Papers in
Control. |
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| 1999 | ||
| Haim Brezis | was made Honorary Professor at the
Academia Sinica (Beijing), and at Fudan University (Shanghai), and
was elected a Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (in Madrid). |
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| Felix Browder | began his two-year term as President of the American
Mathematical Society. |
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| Amy Cohen | was named Outstanding College or University Teacher of the Year
by the Mathematical Association of America (NJ Section). |
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| Israel Gelfand | was made an Honorary Life Member of the New York Academy of
Sciences, and
received the State Award of the Russian Federation. |
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| Simon Gindikin | received the State Award of the Russian Federation. |
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| Joel Lebowitz | received the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
received the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from Clark University. |
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| Feng Luo | received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Fellowship
for Scholarly Excellence. |
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| Fred Roberts | received the Distinguished Service Prize of the Association for
Computing Machinery -- Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation
Theory. |
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| Jean Taylor | began serving as President of the Association for Women in
Mathematics, and
was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Association for Women in Science, and received the Rutgers College Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award. |
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| 1998 | ||
| Haim Brezis | received the Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa degree from
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. |
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| Jeffry Kahn | received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for
Excellence in Research. |
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| János Komlós | was elected a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| James Lepowsky | received the Rutgers University Graduate School-New Brunswick
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences. |
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| Héctor Sussmann | received the Award for Outstanding Control Systems Magazine
Paper of the Year from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers. |
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| Robert L. Wilson | received the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award of Rutgers University. |
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| 1997 | ||
| Martin David Kruskal | was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London). |
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| Joel Lebowitz | received the Rutgers College Class of 1962 Public Service Award. |
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| Joseph Rosenstein | received the Rutgers University Presidential Award for
Distinguished Public Service, and
received the Max Sobel Outstanding Mathematics Educator Award of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New Jersey. |
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| Héctor Sussmann | received the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for
Excellence in Research. |
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| 1996 | ||
| Haim Brezis | received an honorary degree from the University of Louvain
(Belgium). |
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| Stephen Greenfield | received the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for
Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education. |
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| Jeffry Kahn | received the George Pólya Prize of the Society of
Industrial and Applied Mathematicians. |
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| Joel Lebowitz | recived the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award of
the New York Academy of Sciences. |
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| Xiaochun Rong | won an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. |
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY AWARD WINNERS
The Daniel Gorenstein Award
- 2007 Richard Falk
- 1998 Robert Wilson
The Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2000 Stephen Greenfield
- 1988 R. Michael Beals
- 1985 Roe Goodman
The Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2008 Wolmer Vasconcelos
- 2001 Joel Lebowitz
- 1998 James Lepowsky
The Rutgers Scholar-Teacher Award
- 2005 Eduardo Sontag
The Rutgers Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service
- 1997 Joseph Rosenstein
The Rutgers College Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award
- 1999 Jean Taylor
- 1997 Joel Lebowitz
The Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research
- 2008 YanYan Li
- 2006 Richard Lyons
- 2004 Simon Gindikin
- 2002 Eduardo Sontag
- 2000 Henryk Iwaniec
- 1998 Jeffry Kahn
- 1997 Héctor Sussmann
- 1995 François Treves
- 1994 Joel Lebowitz
- 1992 Robert Wilson
- 1991 Daniel Gorenstein
- 1990 Abbas Bahri
- 1989 James Lepowsky
- 1987 Michael Aizenman
- 1982 Terence Butler
- 1977 Nolan Wallach
- 1972 Charles Sims
- 1965 Jacob C.E. Dekker