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Category Archives: Prizes and awards
Hillel Furstenberg & Grigoriĭ Margulis win Abel Prize
Hillel Furstenberg and Grigoriĭ Margulis have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Abel Prize. You can read the official announcement here. There is a news item about the prize on the AMS website. Needless to say, they have … Continue reading
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Emily Riehl
Emily Riehl, a mathematician at Johns Hopkins University, won a huge prize from the university recently: the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award. Riehl works in category theory related to homotopy theory, such as $(\infty,1)$-categories. Her work has roots in earlier work … Continue reading
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Alex Eskin wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
Alex Eskin has been awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. The short citation reads: For revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the “magic wand theorem” with Maryam Mirzakhani. The … Continue reading
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ICIAM Prize Winners
The winners of the ICIAM prizes were announced earlier. Here are links to their Author Profile Pages in MathSciNet. At the opening ceremony for ICIAM, they received their prizes from Felipe VI of Spain, who then came out to the … Continue reading
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Break on Through
The winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prizes have been announced. There are six recipients in mathematics: Vincent Lafforgue, Chenyang Xu, Karim Adiprasito, June Huh, Kaisa Matomäki, and Maksym Radziwill. The laureates will receive their awards during a live televised ceremony on Sunday, November 4.
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