Date: 23 August 2017
Former Clay Research Fellow Jack Thorne has been awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in recongnition of his contributions to number theory, and in particular to the Langlands program.
The Clay Mathematics Institute extends its heartfelt congratulations to former Clay Research Fellow John Pardon (2015-2020) and 2026 Clay Research Awardees Yu Deng and Hong Wang who, along with Jacob Tsimerman, were awarded 2026 Fields Medals by the IMU at a special ceremony in Philadelphia, PA, on 23 July.
Congratulations to former Clay Research Fellows Dennis Gaitsgory, Ben Green, Sergei Gukov, Adrian Ioana, Elon Lindenstrauss, James Maynard, and Terence Tao, and to CMI president Martin Bridson on being awarded 2026 Frontiers of Science Prizes. The prizes will be presented at the International Congress of Basic Sciences in Beijing on August 9, 2026.
Congratulations to Clay Research Fellow Anna Skorobogatova who has been awarded a 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her notable contributions in geometric measure theory, which uses techniques from analysis to tackle geometric problems such as finding surfaces of minimal area. In a series of papers with collaborators, she resolved a long-standing question about […]
2026 Clay Research Awards are made to Tuomas Orponen, Pablo Shmerkin, Hong Wang, and Joshua Zahl; to Robert Burklund, Jeremy Hahn, Ishan Levy, and Tomer Schlank; and to Yu Deng and Zaher Hani. Orponen, Shmerkin, Wang, and Zahl A Clay Research Award is made to Tuomas Orponen (Jyväskylä), Pablo Shmerkin (UBC), Hong Wang (IHES and NYU), and Joshua Zahl (Nankai) in recognition of their remarkable […]