The Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University has been ranked 15th in the world and first in Israel in the 2025 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
Congratulations to Prof. Alex Lubotzky and his MSc student Assaf Reiner on winning the Best Paper Award at FOCS 2025 for their paper "Explicit Lossless Vertex Expanders", co-authored with Jun-Ting Hsieh, Sidhanth Mohanty, and Rachel Yun Zhang.
Congratulations to Prof. Cy Maor recipient of the Milken Prize for Excellent Teachers.
The Rector awards the Milken Prize every year to teachers who have shown continued excellence in teaching.
Prof. Tamar Ziegler will be one of the Plenary Speakers at the next International Congress of Mathematics (ICM), which will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 23 to 30 July, 2026.
The ICM is the most influential conference in pure and applied mathematics. Many prestigious awards as the Fields Medals are awarded during the congress's opening ceremony. An invitation to give a plenary lecture to the thousands of ICM participants is considered a special distinction in the mathematical community.
Congratulations to the Einstein Institute members who received personal research grants from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): Prof. Ori Gurel-Gurevich, Prof. Yair Hayut, Dr. Or Landesberg, Prof. Dan. Mangoubi, Prof. Zlil Sela, Prof. Boris Feigin and Prof. Gil Kalai.
Congratulations to Sasha Sodin for winning the ISF Outstanding Researchers (OR) grant.
Congratulations to Dr. Gabriel Gendler for winning the Maschler Prize.
Congratulations to Prof. Tamar Ziegler, who has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for her research in dynamics, additive number theory, and algebraic geometry.
Congratulations to Prof. Sergiu Hart on being elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — one of the most prestigious scientific honors in the world. The selection recognizes his many years of scientific contributions in the fields of economics, decision theory, and game theory.
Congratulations to Prof. Or Hershkovits for receiving the Erdős prize awarded by the Israel Mathematical Union.
The prize was established by Paul Erdős in 1977 in honor of his parents, and is awarded annually to Israeli mathematicians under 40.
