{"id":2238,"date":"2018-10-18T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2018-10-20T10:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T14:32:21","slug":"break-on-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2018\/10\/18\/break-on-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Break on Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2252 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2018\/10\/Breakthrough-Prize-Logo-bded.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"142\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/News\/47\">winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prizes<\/a> have been announced.\u00a0 There are six recipients in mathematics:\u00a0Vincent Lafforgue,\u00a0Chenyang Xu,\u00a0Karim Adiprasito, June Huh,\u00a0Kaisa Matom\u00e4ki, and\u00a0Maksym Radziwill.\u00a0 \u00a0The laureates will receive their awards during a live televised ceremony on Sunday, November 4.\u00a0 \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is a big production, with celebrities from television, film, and music present, as well as the scientists.\u00a0 The prizes come with significant cash awards, currently $3,000,000 (US).\u00a0 The first five winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics started a tradition of using a part of their awards to fund the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathunion.org\/cdc\/news-and-events\/2014-08-12\/five-inaugural-mathematics-breakthrough-prize-winners-will-donate\">IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowships<\/a>.\u00a0 And all the subsequent prize winners have followed this great tradition of helping mathematics graduate students from and in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>The trophy, designed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olafureliasson.net\/\">Olafur Eliasson<\/a>, is a wireframe toroidal shape, which simultaneously hints at mathematics, life sciences, and fundamental physics, the three areas where prizes are awarded.\u00a0\u00a0There is a nice photograph of it <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/Trophy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The citations for the winners are given below, along with links to their author profiles on <a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search.html\">MathSciNet<\/a>.\u00a0 Congratulations Breakthrough Laureates!<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a02019 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Awarded<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/640041\"><strong>Vincent Lafforgue<\/strong><\/a> \u2013\u00a0<em>CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, France)<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Institut Fourier, Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong>\u00a0For ground-breaking contributions to several areas of mathematics, in particular to the Langlands program in the function field case.<\/p>\n<h3>New Horizons In Mathematics Prize<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/788735\"><strong>Chenyang Xu<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Citation:<\/strong>\u00a0For major advances in the minimal model program and applications to the moduli of algebraic varieties.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/963585\"><strong>Karim Adiprasito<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/974745\"><strong>June Huh<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Institute for Advanced Study<\/em>, respectively<br \/>\n<strong>Citation:<\/strong>\u00a0For the development, with Eric Katz, of combinatorial Hodge theory leading to the resolution of the log-concavity conjecture of Rota.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/815604\"><strong>Kaisa Matom\u00e4ki<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/MRAuthorID\/993561\"><strong>Maksym Radziwill<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>University of Turku<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>California Institute of Technology<\/em>, respectively<br \/>\n<strong>Citation:<\/strong>\u00a0For fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of local correlations of values of multiplicative functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2018\/10\/16\/open-house-at-mathematical-reviews-october-20-2018\/\">Open House at Mathematical Reviews<\/a> Saturday, October 20<sup>th<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thank you to Don McClure for some help on the details of the Breakout Graduate Fellowships.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; 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