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EMS Prizes awarded at Opening Ceremony of 8ECM
Congratulations to Aleksandr Logunov, Simion Filip, Jack Thorne, and Maryna Viazovska who were each awarded a European Mathematical Society Prize at the opening ceremony of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics this morning. Simion and Aleksandr are current Clay Research Fellows, Jack is a former Clay Research Fellow (2012-17), and Maryna won the Clay Research […]
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David G Kendall Award
Congratulations to Clay Research Fellow Ewain Gwynne who has won the inaugural David G Kendall Award for Young Researchers in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Liouville quantum gravity, Schramm-Loewner evolution and the Gaussian free field. The biennial award and lecture, given jointly by the Royal Statistical Society and the Bernoulli Society, recognises research in mathematical statistics and […]
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2021 Clay Research Fellows
The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Maggie Miller, Georgios Moschidis, Lisa Piccirillo, and Alexander Smith have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Maggie Miller obtained her PhD in 2020 from Princeton University, where she was advised by David Gabai. She is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Georgios Moschidis obtained his PhD […]
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PROMYS Europe Connect
PROMYS Europe Connect is calling for applications for its 2021 online programme, to be held from 12 July to 6 August. In view of continuing restrictions and uncertainty around Covid-19, PROMYS Europe Connect has been designed as a unique 4-week online programme that captures many of the key elements of the usual PROMYS Europe experience. PROMYS Europe is a challenging mathematics summer […]
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Nobel Prize to Roger Penrose
Congratualtions to Sir Roger Penrose who, with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on black holes. University of Oxford Mathematician Penrose is cited “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.” Roger Penrose was awarded a Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical […]
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European Mathematical Society Prizes
Congratulations to Aleksandr Logunov, Simion Filip, Jack Thorne, and Maryna Viazovska on winning European Mathematical Society Prizes. Aleksandr and Simion are current Clay Research Fellows, Jack is a former Clay Research Fellow (2012-17), and Maryna won the Clay Research Award in 2017. Ten European Mathematical Society Prizes are awarded at the European Congress of Mathematics […]
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Jack Thorne FRS
Congratualtions to former Clay Research Fellow Jack Thorne (2012-2017) who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his multiple breakthroughs in diverse areas of algebraic number theory, particularly its interaction with representation theory and the theory of automorphic forms. The work cited in support of his election includes: his proof of new […]
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Rollo Davidson Prize
Congratulations to Clay Research Fellow Ewain Gwynne who has been awarded a 2020 Rollo Davidson Prize in recognition of his outstanding work in conformal probability.
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2020 Clay Research Fellows
The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Amol Aggarwal and Yang Li have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Amol Aggarwal will receive his PhD in 2020 from Harvard University, where he has been advised by Alexei Borodin. His research lies largely in probability theory and combinatorics, as well as their connections to mathematical physics, integrable systems, and dynamical […]
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Nick Woodhouse appointed CBE
Congratulations to former CMI president Nick Woodhouse who has been appointed Commander of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to mathematics. Nick has had a distinguished career as both a researcher and a leading administrator in the University of Oxford. His research has been at the interface between mathematics […]
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2020 Steele Prize
CMI President Martin Bridson, together with co-author André Haefliger, has won the 2020 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition awarded by the American Mathematical Society for the book ‘Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature’, published by Springer-Verlag in 1999. In the words of the citation “Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature is the authoritative reference for a huge swath of modern geometric group theory. It realizes […]
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2019 Clay Research Awards
A Clay Research Award is made to Wei Zhang (MIT) in recognition of his ground-breaking work in arithmetic geometry and arithmetic aspects of automorphic forms. A joint Clay Research Award is made to Tristan Buckmaster (Princeton), Philip Isett (Caltech) and Vlad Vicol (NYU) in recognition of the profound contributions that each of them has made to […]
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