Clay Mathematics Institute

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Jeremy Kahn

The 2012 Clay Research Award was made to Jeremy Kahn and Vladimir Markovic for their work in hyperbolic geometry: (1) their proof that a closed hyperbolic three-manifold has an essential immersed hyperbolic Riemann surface, i.e. the map on fundamental groups is injective; (2) their solution of the Ehrenpreis conjecture: that given any two compact hyperbolic Riemann surfaces, there are finite covers of the two surfaces which are arbitrarily closed in the Teichmüller metric.