Date: 15 March 2022
Andrew Wiles has been awarded the 2016 Abel Prize “for his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory.”
A Clay Research Award is made to Frank Merle (IHES, Paris), Pierre Raphaël (Cambridge), Igor Rodnianski (Princeton), and Jérémie Szeftel (Sorbonne Université, Paris). The award is made in recognition of their profound contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations. Merle, Raphaël, Rodnianski and Szeftel are recognised, in particular, for their groundbreaking advances in […]
The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Paul Minter and Huy Tuan Pham have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Paul Minter obtained his PhD in 2022 from the University of Cambridge, advised by Neshan Wickramasekera. Paul has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for four years beginning 1 July 2023. Huy Tuan Pham will receive his […]
PROMYS Europe Executive Director, Vicky Neale, hosts the podcast series Maths + Cancer, exploring the extraordinary and unexpected ways mathematics and statistics is being applied to cancer research across Oxford and beyond. Throughout the series, Vicky talks to a range of experts to find out more about the role of mathematics and statistics in cancer research, […]
Congratulations to Clay Research Fellow Maggie Miller who has been awarded a 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds.