Established in 1905 by Clara Cooley Jacobus, this fellowship is an honorific award reserved for students who, in the judgement of the University faculty, demonstrate the highest scholarly excellence. It is the highest honor that the Graduate School bestows on an enrolled Ph.D. student. Honorific Fellowships recognize outstanding performance and professional promise, and represent high commendation from the Princeton University Graduate School. Congratulations Tung! 

Every year, extraordinary students are chosen to receive their graduate support from a named graduate fellowship. Liane was chosen to receive such a fellowship for the current 2023-24 academic year through The A. Watson Armour, III '33 Centennial Fellowship, supported by Mrs. Whitney Addington. Congratulations to Liane on receiving the honor of a named fellowship!

Congratulations to Alex Damian,  a recipient of Jane Street 2024 Graduate Research Fellowship. Alex is advised by Jason D. Lee and his work focuses on deep learning theory. Specifically, his research focuses on understanding how optimization algorithms, like stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or Adam, navigate the complex loss landscapes encountered when training deep learning models.

Congratulations to PACM alumni, Yuehaw Khoo, The University of Chicago and Melanie Weber, Harvard University 

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. See the list of 2024 Fellows.

PACM warmly welcomes new graduate students. This year our cohort includes eight students. We wish them all a great year ahead and look forward to seeing them at their best in every learning endeavor. 

On Wednesday, September 27, PACM graduate students, researchers, faculty and staff met for lunch to celebrate the start of a new academic year and to welcome new students to the PhD program. The meeting was also an opportunity to exchange research ideas and learn more about future programs and events. 

We wish PACM members a successful academic year and look forward to working with you all!