Congratulations to Dr. Shai Evra for winning the Levitzki Prize.
The Levitzki prize is awarded every two years to a young Israeli mathematician for research in Algebra or related areas.
Congratulations to Prof. Noam Lifshitz 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.
Congratulations to Dr. Omri Solan, the recipient of the Nessyahu Prize for the best Israeli Ph.D. thesis, awarded by the Israel Mathematical Union.
The Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics is awarded annually as part of a national contest of excellent Ph.D. dissertations in sciences. The prize was established by the Nessyahu family to commemorate the memory of their son, Haim Nessyahu, a prominent member of the junior academic staff at Tel Aviv University.
The Einstein Institute expresses its condolences on the passing of Prof. Eliyahu Shamir, a prominent researcher of the institute, whose work spanned partial differential equations, automata theory, the combinatorics of random graphs, and machine learning.
The Einstein Institute of Mathematics mourns the untimely passing of our dear doctoral student, Johanna Kristina Steinmeyer.
Johanna was an integral part of our academic community. Beyond being a brilliant student, she was kind-hearted and a supportive friend to her fellow students and research colleagues.
Her untimely passing leaves a tremendous void in our department, both professionally and personally. She will be deeply missed by all of us.
Her funeral will take place in Germany on March 2, 2026.
Congratulations to Prof. Benjamin Weiss on his selection as the recipient of this year's Israel Prize in the field of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering.
The Israel Prize is the most prestigious award in Israel, given to those who have displayed excellence in their field or made a significant contribution to Israeli culture.
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.
