Department of Mathematics

Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays that weaves together themes of continuity and construction across mathematics, art, music, and philosophy: https://www.blankforms.org/publications/spencer-gerhardt-ticking-strip

The article will appear in the January 2025 print edition. It is also available online.

Congratulations to Susan Sath Vaswani who received an Dornsife Outstanding Staff Achievement Award.
Click here to read about for her achievements.

Congratulations to Sheel Ganatra, who was selected as a Fellow of the AMS. The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

Congratulations to Agustina Czenky, who has received the 2025 AWM Dissertation Prize.

In her dissertation, Czenky solved two significant
problems within the realm of tensor categories that are
related but quite different.

We take great pleasure in announcing that Sheel Ganatra has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

We take great pleasure in announcing that Stas Minsker has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

Congratulations to Cris Negron for receiving the
Raubenheimer faculty award for his contributions
to the department, Dornsife, and university.
Click here to read about his accomplishments.

Congratulations to Sheel Ganatra on his work

Sheel Ganatra, John Pardon, and Vivek Shende, Covariantly functorial wrapped Floer theory on Liouville sectors, Publications mathématiques de l’IHÉS 131 (2020), 73–200

being selected for a Best Paper Award in Mathematics as part of the Frontiers of Science Awards.

Congratulations to Sami Assaf on being awarded the
2024 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students!

• Elif Uskuplu (Lauda), Zorn Assistant Professor at University of Indiana
• Thi Thu Ngyuet (Quinn) Le (Kukavica), Quantitative Research Associate at JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• Jian Zhou (Ganatra), Data Engineer at Startup AI Company in Los Angeles
• Atiqah Almuzaini (Ma), Assistant Professor at University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Wenhan Jiang (Asok)
• Ziyi Liang (Goldstein), Postdoc at UC Irvine
• Thejani Gamage (Ma), UMass Visiting Professor in Math and Stats department
• Haoxing Liu (Rosen)
• Bo Wu (Alexander), Transfer Pricing Consultant at Deloitte
• Chenchen Zhao (Panova), Postdoc at UC Davis

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a conference is being organized on Motivic homotopy, K-theory, and Modular Representations. Click here to know more.

Greta Panova is one of the outstanding mathematicians who have
been awarded a Simons Fellowship in 2024. The program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research .

We are excited to announce that Professor Paul Newton has been named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This prestigious fellowship is awarded to exceptional individuals who have demonstrated significant achievement and promise in their field. Professor Newton is an applied mathematician studying tumor cells using mathematical models, computer simulations, and longitudinal data.

Professor Newton’s selection recognizes his project, ‘Cancer evolution using mathematical models guided by ecological principles.’ The Guggenheim Fellowship supports scholars and artists in all fields, providing them the opportunity to work with substantial freedom over an extended period.

Juhi Jang will deliver an invited lecture at the General Relativity session during the International Congress of Mathematical Physics in Strasbourg, July 2024.

The book “The mathematics of shuffling cards” written by Persi Diaconis (Stanford) and Jason Fulman (USC), and recently published by the American Math Society, won a 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award. Click here to know more.

We are sad to announce that our long time colleague Robert Sacker passed away in his sleep on Sunday, December 10, 2023.

Bob joined the faculty at USC in 1966 and he was a member of the Math Department until his retirement in the Spring of 2023.

He was distinguished for his work in dynamical systems and was well known for the “Sacker-Sell Spectrum.” This article by George Sell in the 2009 issue of JDE&A describes aspects of Bob’s work.

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