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30 November 2021

2021 Clay Research Award

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31 August 2021

Loève Prize in Probability

Congratulations to former Clay Research Fellow Ivan Corwin (2012-2016) who was selected to receive the 2021 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability.  The prize is awarded every two years to “recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in probability who are under 45 years old.”

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31 August 2021

IAMP Early Career Award

Congratulations to CMI Fellow Amol Aggarwal who recently received the 2021 IAMP Early Career Award.  Presented every three years at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics, the prize is awarded in recognition of a single achievement in mathematical physics by a scientist who is under 35 years of age.

23 June 2021

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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05 May 2021

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 […]

25 January 2021

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 […]

22 January 2021

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 […]

07 October 2020

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 […]

11 May 2020

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 […]

11 May 2020

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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17 April 2020

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.  

26 February 2020

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 […]