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PROMYS Europe
The Clay Mathematics Institute has launched PROMYS Europe in collaboration with Wadham College and the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. PROMYS Europe is an extension of the very successful 26-year-old PROMYS program created by Glenn Stevens at Boston University. It is a challenging summer school designed to encourage very able and mathematically ambitious secondary school students to explore the creative world of mathematics. Carefully […]
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2015 Whitehead Prize
Research Fellow James Maynard has been awarded a 2015 LMS Whitehead Prize for his spectacular results on gaps between prime numbers. He simplified and extended the work of Zhang on bounded gaps between primes, then made the most substantial advance for 75 years on how large the gap between consecutive primes can be, in particular […]
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2015 Clay Research Award
The 2015 Clay Research award has been made jointly to Larry Guth and Nets Katz for their solution of the Erdős distance problem and for other joint and separate contributions to combinatorial incidence geometry. Their work is an important contribution to the understanding of the interplay between combinatorics and geometry. Larry Guth is a professor […]
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Clay Award for Dissemination
The first Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge has been made to Étienne Ghys in recognition of his own important contributions to mathematical research and for his distinguished work in the promotion of mathematics. Étienne Ghys is a CNRS Directeur de Recherche at ENS, Lyon. He has published outstanding work in his own fields of geometry […]
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Research Fellow: John Pardon
John V Pardon has been awarded a Clay Research Fellowship. He studied as an undergraduate at Princeton and is currently working with Yakov Eliashberg at Stanford University. His most recent work concerns the construction of virtual fundamental cycles on moduli spaces of holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry. He is also interested in geometry and low-dimensional topology. John […]
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Research Fellow: James Maynard
James Maynard has been awarded a Clay Research Fellowship. He obtained his doctorate at Oxford in 2013 under the supervision of Roger Heath-Brown. He is currently a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. James is primarily interested in classical number theory, in particular the distribution of prime numbers. His research focuses on using tools from […]
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New SAB Members
Two new members will be joining the CMI’s Scientific Advisory Board in January in succession to Richard Melrose and Yum-Tong Siu. Michael J Hopkins ( above left)is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Harvard University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is well known […]
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2014 Packard Fellowship
Clay Research Fellow Ivan Corwin has been awarded a 2014 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. The Packard Foundation established the Fellowships program in 1988 to provide early-career scientists with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields.
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2014 Fields Medals
Three former Clay Research Fellows, Artur Avila, Manjul Bhargava (pictured), and Maryam Mirzakhani have been awarded Fields Medals at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians.
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2014 Clay Research Awards
The Clay Mathematics Institute announces that the 2014 Clay Research Awards have been made to Maryam Mirzakhani (pictured) and Peter Scholze. Maryam Mirzakhani is recognised for her many and significant contributions to geometry and ergodic theory, in particular to the proof of an analogue of Ratner’s theorem on unipotent flows for moduli of flat surfaces. Peter […]
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Ramanujan Prize
The 2014 Ramanujan Prize has been awarded to Miguel Walsh of the University of Oxford for his outstanding contributions to Ergodic Theory and Number Theory, including a proof of the norm convergence of multiple polynomial or nilpotent ergodic averages, a long-standing problem in ergodic theory, and important results in inverse sieve problems leading to a sharp bound on […]
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Quillen Notebooks
During his long mathematical career, Dan Quillen kept a set of detailed notes which give a day-to-day record of his mathematical research. His notebooks have been digitised in a project funded by CMI and made available to the mathematics community on the CMI website. Glenys Luke and Graeme Segal are working on cataloguing the material. So […]
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