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Katz Receives Prestigious Award for Mathematics
07/02/2015

Katz Receives Prestigious Award for Mathematics

Lorinda Dajose
Caltech professor of mathematics Nets Katz has received the 2015 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute. The award was given jointly to Katz and an MIT collaborator for their solution of the Erdős distance problem and for "other joint and separate contributions to combinatorial incidence geometry."
Caltech Seniors Win Library Friends Thesis Prize
06/12/2015

Caltech Seniors Win Library Friends Thesis Prize

Lorinda Dajose
The annual award recognizes undergraduates for theses that "exemplify excellent research, writing and the effective use of library resources."
Three Caltech Fulbrights
05/28/2015

Three Caltech Fulbrights

Douglas Smith
Caltech seniors Jonathan Liu, Charles Tschirhart, and Caroline Werlang will be engaging in research abroad as Fulbright Scholars this fall.
Caltech Students Named Goldwater Scholars
05/18/2015

Caltech Students Named Goldwater Scholars

Lorinda Dajose
Two Caltech students, Saaket Agrawal and Paul Dieterle, have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2015–16 academic year. The program, established by Congress in 1986, provides financial support to college students who intend to pursue research careers in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Scoville Awarded Radio Astronomy Lectureship
05/12/2015

Scoville Awarded Radio Astronomy Lectureship

Lorinda Dajose
The lectureship, awarded from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Associated Universities, Inc, is named for Karl Jansky, a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy and the first to detect radio waves from a cosmic source.
Simon Wins International Mathematics Prize
04/29/2015

Simon Wins International Mathematics Prize

Lorinda Dajose
Barry Simon, the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, has been awarded the International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics for 2015 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Barry Simon
Theoretical Physicist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
04/24/2015

Theoretical Physicist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Lorinda Dajose
Sean Carroll, a research professor of physics, was awarded the mid-career fellowship, which recognizes those who have "demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."
Two Caltech Seniors Win Hertz Fellowships
04/06/2015

Two Caltech Seniors Win Hertz Fellowships

Douglas Smith
Caltech seniors Adam Jermyn and Charles Tschirhart have been named 2015 Hertz Fellowship winners. Selected from a pool of approximately 800 applicants, the awardees will receive up to five years of support for their graduate studies.
2015 Hertz Foundation Fellows Charles Tschirhart (left) and Adam Jermyn (right)
Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the American Physical Society
02/24/2015

Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the American Physical Society

Lorinda Dajose
John Dabiri and Maria Spiropulu have been named fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for their exceptional contributions to physics.
Caltech Professors Awarded 2015 Sloan Fellowships
02/23/2015

Caltech Professors Awarded 2015 Sloan Fellowships

Lorinda Dajose
Five Caltech faculty members have been awarded the fellowships, honoring them as "early-career scientists whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders."
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