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Several members of the MIT Math community received 2025 Frontiers of Science awards for top research papers at July's International Congress for Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing, China.

This year's recipients include:

• Davesh Maulik for two papers: "The P=W Conjecture for GL_n," a joint paper with Junliang Shen, Annals of Mathematics, 2024; and "Gopakumar-Vafa Invariants via Vanishing Cycles" with Yukinobu Toda, Inventiones Mathematicae, 2018.
• Former instructor Zilin Jiang, Jonathan Tidor PhD '22, graduate student Yuan Yao '21, Shengtong Zhang '22, and Yufei Zhao, "Equiangular Lines with a Fixed Angle," Annals of Mathematics, 2021.
• Zhiwei Yun for "Functions on the Commuting Stack via Langlands Duality" with Penghui Li and David Nadler, in Annals of Mathematics, 2024.
• Former faculty member Tristan Collins for two papers: "Moment maps, nonlinear PDE and stability in mirror symmetry" with Shing-Tung Yau in Annals of Partial Differential Equations, 2021, and "Sasaki-Einstein metrics and K-stability" with Gábor Székelyhidi in Geometry and Topology, 2019.

Congratulations to all the recipients!

The MIT Corporation Executive Committee has approved the following faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2025: Jeremy Hahn and Dor Minzer have been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure (from Assistant Professor).

Congratulations to Dor and Jeremy!

Four faculty members have been selected to hold named professorships as of July 1, 2025: Roman Bezrukavnikov holds a Norbert Wiener Professorship; Pavel Etingof, the David W. Skinner Professorship; Tristan Ozuch-Meersseman, the Rockwell International Career Development Assistant Professorship; and John Urschel, the Class of 1956 Career Development Assistant Professorship.

These named professorships are funded from endowed gifts to the Institute or the Department, and constitute a significant honor for their holders. Career Development Professorships are for three years, while Full Professorships are for an initial term of 5 years and renewable.

Congratulations, John, Pavel, Roman, and Tristan!

Five MIT math faculty members and one from EECS have been invited to give lectures at the upcoming International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia from July 23 to 30, 2026.

Invited speakers from MIT at ICM 2026 are Jeremy Hahn in the Topology section, Dor Minzer in the Mathematics of Computer Science section, Philippe Rigollet and Caroline Uhler (EECS) in the Statistics and Machine Learning section, and Gigliola Staffilani and Nike Sun in the Mathematical Physics section.

Meeting every four years, ICM is the largest and most recognized meeting for the mathematical community, showcasing the most important, recent advances across all subfields of mathematics. Being invited at ICM is a tremendous honor.