Balakrishnan awarded Birman fellowship
Congratulations to collaboration PI Jennifer Balakrishnan, who has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars!
Hassett elected a Fellow of the AAAS
Collaboration PI Brendan Hassett was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “significant contributions to the field of algebraic geometry and leadership to the mathematics community.”
Balakrishnan elected a fellow of the AWM
Congratulations to PI Jennifer Balakrishnan for her selection as a member of the 2023 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She was cited “For her support of women in mathematics through mentoring and advising; for organizing and supporting programs for women and girls, especially Women in Sage and Women in Numbers; for her work in outreach and education, including GirlsGetMath; and for working to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in research communities.”
Poonen wins Doob Prize
Congratulations to Bjorn Poonen for the 2023 Joseph L. Doob Prize, awarded to his book Rational Points on Varieties. This was published by the American Mathematical Society in 2017 in the series Graduate Studies in Mathematics.
Elkies delivers 2022 Ross Lecture
Collaboration PI Noam Elkies delivered the 2022 Arnold Ross lecture, titled Sphere packings and codes in various dimensions. The lecture is sponsored by the American Mathematical Society to inspire high school students through mathematics beyond the traditional classroom.
Simons Collaboration volume appears
A volume containing papers presenting work of the collaboration has just been published by Springer in its Simons Symposia book series.
David Lowry-Duda contributes plotting code to SageMath
A portrait of a modular form by collaboration member David Lowry-Duda is featured in an article on the Langlands Program in the German popular science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft. His code for complex plots will be featured in release 9.6 of SageMath.
Jennifer Balakrishnan elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Congratulations to Jennifer Balakrishnan for her election as a Fellow of AMS citing her “contributions to arithmetic geometry and computational number theory and service to the profession.”
Balakrishnan to receive 2022 AWM-Microsoft Prize in Algebra and Number Theory
Jennifer Balakrishnan will receive the 2022 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory in recognition of outstanding contributions to explicit methods in number theory, particularly her advances in computing rational points on algebraic curves over number fields. The award will be presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle. See the AWM press release for more details.
The Simons Foundation Renews the Collaboration
In May 2021, The Simons Foundation notified the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation that it was approved for renewal funding. The $6M ensures that the pure math research collaboration between Boston University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and MIT will continue through August 2024.
Graduating team member to take positions in Europe
Congratulations to Alex Best, who recently finished his PhD at Boston University under the supervision of Jennifer Balakrishnan. He will start a postdoctoral position at VU Amsterdam in July 2021, working with Sander Dahmen as part of the project “New Diophantine Directions.” In Fall 2022, Alex will then take up a Heilbronn Research Fellowship at King’s College London.
Bridges features work of Lowry-Duda
Work of David Lowry-Duda, collaboration research scientist based at Brown, was featured by the 2021 Bridges exhibition at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. He has been developing new visualization tools for modular forms.